This game hits a lot of marks that it needs to for a souls-like game. It has it's own unique charm despite the millennial-ahh humor. Combat, customization, and exploration are satisfying and original in their own right that makes the game feel not boring. The environment is really cool even though it feels like some artists on the aggro crab team just wanted to come up with as many ocean puns as they could. Regardless, there's still a lot of BS that come from bugs that are like "okay they just didn't test this part enough I guess." I also suffered the "where the FUCK do I go" sickness for a bit with this game. If you're a fan of souls-like games, then this game is worth getting. Otherwise, it's nothing amazing.

The combat is kind of clunky. ON MY MAMA, if they added animation cancelling/buffering and added better frame data so you could do moves more fluidly, this would be a much more amazing game. For example, there's the classic soulslike light and strong attack you can do by respectively tapping or holding RB. It's REALLY hard to chain the light attack into strong attack, as once you're in the 4 hit light attack combo, you HAVE to stand still for a second to be able to use your strong attack. You can't combo light attacks into strong attacks when you want like two light attacks then one strong attack, (tap tap then hold) you just keep light attacking despite the inputs. This REALLY makes combat feel bad.

This game made me realize how fun fast mobility and souls-like combat could be, but they don't really push the idea far. They need to make a sequel with mario odyssey-like movement options and tighter controls and make the game based around that and they have a 10/10 game on their hands.

The only game where RPing is actually fun. This game is honestly 5/5 for what it is. It's kind of overwhelming at first glance, but once you start to get the hang of things it quickly becomes one of those "alright let me do this one thing" and suddenly the clock says 5 AM. This game is just RTS macro management gameplay, but every aspect that you have to manage is actually fun.

Paradox honestly just needs to add some DLC to the base game while releasing more. There are some base game elements that are straight trash and if you want to play this game in multiplayer, they're pretty much required. Also, there's been a known problem that hasn't been fixed for a while. Getting to late-game always lags the FUCK out of people and there's not really any response on fixing it.

Honestly someone just needs to remake the original Spore and then have it progress into this game to make the best sci-fi game of all time.

Back in the 2000s some people were imagining how good things would be in the future. Some people hoped we would get robot servants, flying cars, but we didn't get those.

Some other people hoped that we would get a PERFECT Dungeons & Dragons video game where you could control your characters exactly how you would want them to like you would in your head in a perfectly meshed environment where characters and monsters come to life and you're able to interact with all of this in any way your wildest dreams can imagine. Whoever those people are, you need to dream me getting a million dollars.