I hate to pile on, but I hate this fucking game.
-I got to the part where the game sort of opens up and it's pretty big and it's fucking a chore to navigate without getting lost. You can't place markers on your map, you can't zoom in with your map, and the map sucks and isn't very descriptive or detailed and without zooming you can barely see anything.
-Every time you die you start at the beginning of every area. Also, you will die or get injured from the smallest of falls. Like you'll approach a cliff and go "this isn't too high, I should be able to drop down this just fine." NOPE. You either die or lose a heart and it will start you back atop the cliff before you fell. If you die you start at the entrance way you entered. So if it's an area that's really big, you don't lose your progress which is good. You keep everything you discovered but instead of starting you right where you died, you gotta trek all the way back. And with how easy it is to die in this game, it's fucking ANNOYING especially when you are still trying to figure out which cliffs you can even drop off of without dying. So far, I've found you really can only fall of something as high as like one foot high without getting injured or dying.
-Also, some bodies of water you can walk in and some you can’t. Can’t tell? Take the plunge! But if you guess wrong, you’re dead!
-There's no indicator for when you run out of sprint stamina and get fatigued. There's no bar, there's no recharge bar. Baldo doesn't even have an animation that shows him recovering. So you just have to kind of guess. If you guess too soon, you run out of sprint in like 2 seconds. So you basically play it by ear. And you run out of sprint very fast. It's basically 5 seconds on, 5 seconds off. Makes it annoying to travel in large areas and return to areas where you died.
-Difficulty scaling is totally out of whack. Enemies are either a joke that can barely even try to attack you, or you'll be lucky to survive one of these things. Attacking enemies doesn't disable them from attacking you, so all the hard enemies I've fought, I'll attack one first but he'll still be able to attack me as I'm attacking them, basically us landing blows at the exact same time, and it takes WAY more hits for me to kill them than it does to kill me. So I basically just run from all enemies now.
-I killed this lizard thing that dropped a material to sell and the description says "extremely rare, these enemies are difficult to kill, sells for a lot" and the sell value was 5 gold lmao. That's "a lot"???
-I got an extra heart boosting my hearts to 4, but for some reason every time I die and respawn only 3 of 4 hearts are full. Even if I had 4 hearts full at my last check point.
-Loading between screens within areas loads fast, but loading to different regions takes about 10 seconds. There are two long load screens when starting the game. Both 20+ seconds each.
-I have a shield and naturally, it has a health bar on it.
-No fast travel as of yet to make traveling easier.
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DragoonKain
, I feel like I owe you money, as your negative experience saved me money by passing on this game when I had almost preordered it before.
