Everyone else I know seems to absolutely adore this game, a perfect, favourite, all-timer. I couldn't get into it the same way, but I was enjoying it just well enough to keep going for a while. However, complaints mounted and mounted, and eventually one really bad spot of design frustrated me enough that I didn't have the motivation to continue.
First of all, not complaints so much, but aspects of it that I know others love but didn't help raise its score for me - The vocal soundtrack just wasn't to my personal taste, and I couldn't get as invested in the characters. I have a complicated relationship with the "wholesome queer indie game" vibe, despite being queer and wanting representation something about it often just puts me off. In particular, in this case, buddying up so intimately, so quickly with the characters made me honestly uncomfortable. "wow we fused was that your 👉👈 first time". haha get it its like sex. girl we just met.
I found the progression to be kind of awkward. There are a lot of small objectives you have to complete across the map, and it's often unclear when one's appropriate for your level. Finding the right arbitrary beasts to capture to unlock traversal abilities is poorly signposted and often out of the way, especially with swimming. And the level curve in general felt quite poorly adjusted at times, especially trying to find your way through the west of the map.
The big thing that made me ragequit was the way the game handles "legendary" beasts. While a small handful of designs really appealed to me, I was having trouble finding enough beasts I cared enough about to want on my team. When I found Glaistain, it was going to finally be a solid sixth. Unfortunately, the game made absolutely no indication that it was unique, how hard it would be to catch, or what the process for respawning it would involve - but I was promised by another player that it could respawn, so when I went in unprepared and had no hope of catching it, I didn't think to reload. Only after it was too late did I learn you have to wait for a rarely-spawning rumour in town, which from my experience is excruciatingly rare before postgame - it's not something you're supposed to be able to rely on, and I'd been left to rely on it with little warning. Unable to complete the team I wanted to play with, on top of everything else grinding me down, I lost all interest.
First of all, not complaints so much, but aspects of it that I know others love but didn't help raise its score for me - The vocal soundtrack just wasn't to my personal taste, and I couldn't get as invested in the characters. I have a complicated relationship with the "wholesome queer indie game" vibe, despite being queer and wanting representation something about it often just puts me off. In particular, in this case, buddying up so intimately, so quickly with the characters made me honestly uncomfortable. "wow we fused was that your 👉👈 first time". haha get it its like sex. girl we just met.
I found the progression to be kind of awkward. There are a lot of small objectives you have to complete across the map, and it's often unclear when one's appropriate for your level. Finding the right arbitrary beasts to capture to unlock traversal abilities is poorly signposted and often out of the way, especially with swimming. And the level curve in general felt quite poorly adjusted at times, especially trying to find your way through the west of the map.
The big thing that made me ragequit was the way the game handles "legendary" beasts. While a small handful of designs really appealed to me, I was having trouble finding enough beasts I cared enough about to want on my team. When I found Glaistain, it was going to finally be a solid sixth. Unfortunately, the game made absolutely no indication that it was unique, how hard it would be to catch, or what the process for respawning it would involve - but I was promised by another player that it could respawn, so when I went in unprepared and had no hope of catching it, I didn't think to reload. Only after it was too late did I learn you have to wait for a rarely-spawning rumour in town, which from my experience is excruciatingly rare before postgame - it's not something you're supposed to be able to rely on, and I'd been left to rely on it with little warning. Unable to complete the team I wanted to play with, on top of everything else grinding me down, I lost all interest.
urlrot
9 months ago