This game was picked for me and my friends to stream on a weekend and though it was a lot of fun and showed some great promise, there. The game has a passive-collection system in the form of the adorable creatures called "Drakes" who are sadly not decended from Dragons, but that doesn't matter as these little adorable things do a lot of the building everywhere in camp, but you need to craft the amulets yourself for travel between the corruption to each island.
Monsters will routinely attack the island and there's so much stuff you can smash apart, collect and such to make back home. Not to mention, if you keep the Drakes well fed, not only will they gather stuff for you, but they'll continue to work and be happy! They also have the chance of finding objects you might find useful, dumping them in the mail box for you to get later.
Though we didn't get far, the story certainly had me intrigued. You play as this kid (I assume teenager?) who is on the outskirts of their city, looking back at it and their mobile, having a message from a love interest that says "I think we should see other people" which was an immediate Oof, but we ended up following a magical raven that brings us into the world of the Drake! You are given the task to not only be the guardian of the Drakes, but to also clean up and destroy the corruption that infests this whole world!
Now for the technical standpoint:
Graphically it has this cute cartoon look that I love and first time seeing a Drake I was just in love with the adorable thing! Oh, forgot to mention they even get you gifts too! Anyway...I found that the game didn't hamper my CPU like previous games I've played for our Saturday game and it worked well with streaming. I don't remember encountering any graphical glitches either.
Controls were great, no major issues and buttons were in the appropriate places. It just feels natural to play with a controller which I only do for certain games, usually 3rd person games. I also use a 3rd party controller so if it picked up mine without any issue, it'll certainly be compatible with whatever you have!
Multiplayer has one or two issues. When we played it, you weren't allowed to co-op until you completed the tutorial, which is fair enough I guess as the story is highly focused on your journey and it'd be weird if one teenager turned into multiple! We had to look up online how to join as it was never explained straight away, but apparently it's after the tutorial finishes, which is after you activate the Lighthouse. This was a pain as the three of us had to play the game singleplayer for a while before we could finally link up!
That said, we were having a lot of fun, but what ended it was when the game crashed. Crashes are not a major deal breaker, especially as after the entire hour it only happened once, but we lost ALL our progress. At first we were confused, wondering why it wasn't auto-saving, but it appears that, again, at the time, it was bugged and you had to make certain that you save because the auto-save was a little tempermental. So we lost all our story progress, all our weapons, buildings and so on, but when exiting I noticed that my character and her level was still there!
Stream of Part 1, hopefully more in the future
Monsters will routinely attack the island and there's so much stuff you can smash apart, collect and such to make back home. Not to mention, if you keep the Drakes well fed, not only will they gather stuff for you, but they'll continue to work and be happy! They also have the chance of finding objects you might find useful, dumping them in the mail box for you to get later.
Though we didn't get far, the story certainly had me intrigued. You play as this kid (I assume teenager?) who is on the outskirts of their city, looking back at it and their mobile, having a message from a love interest that says "I think we should see other people" which was an immediate Oof, but we ended up following a magical raven that brings us into the world of the Drake! You are given the task to not only be the guardian of the Drakes, but to also clean up and destroy the corruption that infests this whole world!
Now for the technical standpoint:
Graphically it has this cute cartoon look that I love and first time seeing a Drake I was just in love with the adorable thing! Oh, forgot to mention they even get you gifts too! Anyway...I found that the game didn't hamper my CPU like previous games I've played for our Saturday game and it worked well with streaming. I don't remember encountering any graphical glitches either.
Controls were great, no major issues and buttons were in the appropriate places. It just feels natural to play with a controller which I only do for certain games, usually 3rd person games. I also use a 3rd party controller so if it picked up mine without any issue, it'll certainly be compatible with whatever you have!
Multiplayer has one or two issues. When we played it, you weren't allowed to co-op until you completed the tutorial, which is fair enough I guess as the story is highly focused on your journey and it'd be weird if one teenager turned into multiple! We had to look up online how to join as it was never explained straight away, but apparently it's after the tutorial finishes, which is after you activate the Lighthouse. This was a pain as the three of us had to play the game singleplayer for a while before we could finally link up!
That said, we were having a lot of fun, but what ended it was when the game crashed. Crashes are not a major deal breaker, especially as after the entire hour it only happened once, but we lost ALL our progress. At first we were confused, wondering why it wasn't auto-saving, but it appears that, again, at the time, it was bugged and you had to make certain that you save because the auto-save was a little tempermental. So we lost all our story progress, all our weapons, buildings and so on, but when exiting I noticed that my character and her level was still there!
Stream of Part 1, hopefully more in the future