The "abandoned" status this site allows you to use is so freeing. Ten years ago, on Backloggery, a game like this would forever be marked as "unbeaten" in my backlog, and my young dumb ass would have poured fifteen hours into whatever campaign mode exists just to get it out of there in honest fashion. But here on Backloggd in 2021? Ain't nobody got time for that! I love it. The game itself was a semi-broken experience. Anecdote: immediately, somehow, I unmapped the "cancel" button and then whaever I went to use a cannon or a harpoon I was stuck forever. Took five minutes of searching online to figure out what the hell was going on. The concept is pretty cool! Yeah, you're a pirate. Go sail your boat. Go find some treasure. Get rip-roaring drunk, back at the bar. Deck yourself out in elaborate coats and hats like a fancy lad. But doing all of that for a few hours with my friends on a Friday night was plenty for me; any time we tried to advance the story we'd sink the boat or sell our hard-earned jewels to the wrong guy or whatever. This was dumb and this was fun, and there's simply no way we're going to all sit back down - together or solo - to play this for another 15 hours. So thank you, Game Pass! We were curious, we streamed, we shrugged and said "eh, no thanks!" And we're moving on with our lives and with our backlogs.

Reviewed on Feb 22, 2021


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