Recent reviews by Hellmoon

If you liked the first Subnautica, you'll like this one. More story, less meaningless grind, and a bit shorter as a result.

I haven't gotten to experience many bullet-hell (Enter the Gungeon) type games but I absolutely fell in love with this game. It has SO much potential for additional content, the farming element is great with its currency/point system, crop combining, and somewhat tower defense night-time gameplay.

Pros:
- Cute apocalyptic plants that grow into overgrown "mutant" plants with enough fertilizer
- Multiple playable characters with different attributes that affect your experience.
- Meta currency (cornucopias) that improve your game and help you tackle each level of difficulty and subsequently improves the look of your “overworld” staging area that’s decrepit when you first start the game.
- Decent difficulty scaling for casual/beginner players
- Controller optimization is better than other games I’ve played, specifically comparing to Stardew Valley (though keyboard/mouse is easier in my experience)
- Playtime is decent for the price (I’m on year 4 after 20 hours played, with a max of year 10 year difficulty)
- The rose/relationships mechanic is a nice addition.

Neutral
-Music is quirky, you’ll either love it or hate it (I enjoy it)

Cons
-Gets somewhat repetitive with item builds and top tier items (and tractors), needs a bit more itemization or some sort of enhancements. For example, I feel like getting the weed wacker tractor is nearly required for later years to manage the weeds that grow into monsters if left unchecked. It would be nice to be able to buy “modifications” to tractors or even level up one plain tractor to have various abilities.
-The gun mechanic (gun breaks after every day) is a little frustrating when paired with the fact that you get random guns every day and some are NOT very good at all. I’ve lost runs because I’ve been forced to take the squirrel or cleaver gun.

All in all, I love this game, it’s unique with some flaws but not deal breakers, and I’d love to see more additions to the game in the future! How about a zombie DLC? Literal plants vs zombies opportunity!

I absolutely love this game, it definitely scratches that SDV-esq itch for me while also providing a completely different experience compared to SDV. I'll keep this short, here are the pros and cons for me for this game:

PROS:
- There is A TON of stuff to do, I'm at 20 hours in my current play through and I'm not even close to halfway through the game.
- The dark humor is 10/10, and the game doesn't take itself too seriously.
- While super grindy, it also feels extremely satisfying to accomplish goals.
- You get to have zombie slaves.

CONS:
- You literally need a RL notebook to keep track of your goals (which could of easily been solved with an in-game notebook)
- Early game is very grindy (but gets better with the addition of zombies)

Great game! The narrative is a lovely mix of player discovery & coordinate points that have (so far) consisted of radio messages that you can completely 100% avoid if you really wanted to. However, for me there is nothing more satisfying than coming across wrecks on my own and finding lost PDA's that might give me a little information. I also love the progression system and the way new items are discovered, you get just enough at the right times in your developement to slowly grow in different ways and find them useful.

As for cons, the game isn't without a few bugs like schools of fish sometimes swimming inside your seabase and your seabase alerting you that it's on emergency power as you are logging into the game but overall I haven't encounted many things I don't like about this game.

Fun game, SOE has been responding quickly to player concerns and complaints and I am really impressed. THIS game actually has the Z in H1Z1 unlike other games out there right now.