This is a game I would charitably say has good ideas but doesn't always execute them in the best way. Right now I would say its a fuckin mess. On paper it could have worked, but the devs either didn't have enough time or experience, possibly both. To its credit, the world is ambitious. There is actually quite a lot of variety in the sights, and I quite liked the small archipelago part of the map that you explore by island hopping with your little boat. The character designs are interesting and colorful, displaying a lot of personality. This display is all they have however, because in possibly the most baffling decision made for this game with an already huge number of fucked up choices, there is only 3 voices in this entire game. This by itself doesn't sound too bad, most voice actors have a lot of range and can work as several characters at once, and it is an expensive part of development, so it makes sense for a small studio to not go overboard. The problem is the implementation. For about 95% of the game, the only voice you will be hearing is the narrator. On conversations, the characters make random grunts sometimes and the narrator just tells you what they said. Their delivery is mostly pretty flat, like they care just as little as me about the story. There was probably a highlight somewhere, but I was so fuckin done with it after like 10 hours I mostly played with youtube on my computer and barely paying attention. A problem that really compounds this is the boring as hell most of the time, annoying as fuck more than it should've writing. I understand this game wanted to be a game with multiple paths based on a karma system, but what this resulted on is that every fucking character feels entitled to judge you as soon as they meet you every time. There's not one character that's an annoying preachy asshole. Even without anyone around, the narrator loves to drop the most inane comments every single chance they get, and it was exhausting. Basically nothing said ever was worth paying attention to, and the plot was also pretty nothing. Because it has to exist on this weird quantum superposition where you can both be a good little boy that helps everyone and literally hitler it all must be bland as hell to accommodate every part of the asshole spectrum. Unfortunately, even if you try to turn off the voices to just pay attention to the gameplay, this isn't particularly good either. Combat is an interesting mix of melee, guns and magic that had potential, but like everything else in this game it never congeals into something good. None of your attacks have any impact, the sound effects are weak, the enemies barely react, and they are damage sponges until you start stacking the damage buffs. The weapon crafting is kinda neat, you find different parts around and you can stick them together for a unique weapon. There's probably a trillion different combinations, and every part used appears in the final result which is cool. Still, the only part that actually matters from any given weapon is the blade/cannon that determines more or less its damage, what kind of movement set it gets, and the single special effect like heal on kills or shooting double the bullets. Everything else are extras that add more damage. The powers in this game are also quite dissapointing, they also feel like they barely tickle the enemy, and despite me specing on it, the damage numbers it did were never better than just pulling out a gun. Some of the powers do give you extra mobility while traversing, like the bubble that lets you jump quite high and kinda run on water. And as a nail in the coffin, this game runs like dogshit on ps4. I had several crashes and the fps were crawling a lot of the time. I'll admit that at this point that's probably more the fault of the old ass console than the game though, but it certainly didn't make the experience better. I believe there is universe where this game was good, and perhaps a Biomutant 2 is what is needed to refine the concepts and polish this gem so rough its basically still coal into something decent. Prospects do be grim though.