I want to love this game. Skyrim is one of my all time favorite games and I’m nicer on bethesda’s fallouts than most. But the main thing I like about those games, being able to truly explore to my heart’s content when i see something off in the distance, just isn’t here. In skyrim when you try heading towards a town you heard about at an inn all sorts of things can happen to you on your way there. Bandit attacks, merchant caravans, a dragon attack, etc. Here, you get in your ship, pick a place to fast travel to, maybe have a random dog fight in orbit, and then land in a self contained area.

I like the other aspects of the game a lot like the rpg elements, the ship fights, and the companions, so I can’t say the game is outright bad. I however will say its completely missing the part of bethesda games I liked, which was being able to go somewhere and have an adventure while going there. Not just while I’m there.

6/10