I Kickstarted this game quite some time ago, thrilled by the concept, and very easily tempted by anything that apes Shadow of the Colossus.
On that count, it delivers alright. The Gods are intriguingly designed, and the fights have a nice degree of puzzle solving and mechanical challenge.
However, all that surrounds it feels fine at best, and more frequently frustrating and distracting. The survival and crafting mechanics in particular are tedious and take me out of the experience more than adding to it. There was room for the world to be dangerous in a way that these felt necessary, but this execution feels dated and perfunctory.
The world itself is fun to explore, and there are some fun nice traversal challenges, though it could have been served better by less of a focus on the stats granted by clothing and weapons.
The beauty of SotC is found in very large part due to its simplicity of purpose, and discarding what does not serve that, and that feels like a missed lesson here.
On that count, it delivers alright. The Gods are intriguingly designed, and the fights have a nice degree of puzzle solving and mechanical challenge.
However, all that surrounds it feels fine at best, and more frequently frustrating and distracting. The survival and crafting mechanics in particular are tedious and take me out of the experience more than adding to it. There was room for the world to be dangerous in a way that these felt necessary, but this execution feels dated and perfunctory.
The world itself is fun to explore, and there are some fun nice traversal challenges, though it could have been served better by less of a focus on the stats granted by clothing and weapons.
The beauty of SotC is found in very large part due to its simplicity of purpose, and discarding what does not serve that, and that feels like a missed lesson here.