Recent reviews by SanktZwingers

8/10
Great game, combat is where it shines, every skill is useful depending on what you want to do, some people told me that the story is exactly how it is shown in The Lord of Rings, i haven't watched it yet but after playing the game i can say for sure that it's a great story and it's easy to understand what is happening, i will 100% play the sequel when i get to.
The only bad thing here is how most of the achievements are extremelly annoying to get and some of them are locked by one time quests, so do yourself a favor and just 100% the collectibles, side quests and the trials.
The game is pretty easy tho and theres no difficulty changer, it takes even 3 seconds to an uruk (most common enemy) to notice that you are literally in front of him, if you want a challenge i would say turn off the attack icons from enemies and dont use runes, or just skip the time alot/die to captains so they will get stronger.

This is the most horribly optimized game i have ever played till today, and for some reason my character has extra endlag the less fps i have.
How does it even work to clown award me when im not even talking about the gameplay or story itself? I literally have more than the minimum specs to play the game and it just does not run above 20 fps, and im 100% 2B is attacking slower, just stop defending your fanservice simulator game.

I'm getting overwhelmed with so many things to do and so many things on my screen, that i'm getting a headache, i don't even know where to start, even after the tutorial

I know the game is old as ♥♥♥♥, but the npcs and history narration were so bad that i almost couldn't finish the game, the game feels dead, npcs could be swearing at you but it would be with a straight face (just for reference, AC2 released a year before new vegas, and we all know how good and alive the npcs were there), on top of how locomotion works, my character doesn't even have a run mechanic, and i still have to walk without my weapon out, because it would make me EVEN slower if i did, not to mention the amount of useless freedom you have, like why what is the point of picking up cups, pack of cigarettes or an empty bottle of sarsaparilla?
I think the only fun i had here would probably be with the missions that are related to explosions, like "That Lucky Old Sun" or the quest to erradicate the Brotherhood of Steel, thats something that new vegas is good at doing.

Very relaxing game, i had a very good time with this game, but it could be even better.

Positive things:
1. No combat, only the flora, oxygen and fall damage can kill you (the reason why its relaxing).
2. Galastropods.
3. You can play with friends (sadly my friends don't have good taste in games).
4. Simple mechanics and machines, but if you want the challenge build those crazy automated farms, you can also do that.
5. Whole backpack idea, you dont get a UI that you have to press here, it's just small slots in your back, just drag something, and put there, and OH MY GOD THE SOUND DESIGN IS FANTASTIC.
6. The hoverboard

Negative things:
1. The planets are repetitive, which broke all the magic that i was "building" inside of me for this game at the start, theres like 6-8 different agressive and defensive plants (aka flora), you would think thats a good number for each planet, the problem here is that its 6-8 plants across all the planets, so the moment you adapt to a plant in one planet and go to another one, you will probably see the same flora and will never die again. This also applies to the ores in some planets, since theres some of them that have the same ores list, giving no reason to go mining on new planets. So what would be the reason to change planets here? for unique gasses that are used on crafting and boring quests.
2. Although galastropods are incredibly cute and fun, they are also extremelly overpowered, at the start of the game, you have to put oxygen cables to navigate in the planet, or use a vehicle with an oxygenator, but when you unlock the galastropods that gives INFINITE oxygen and power as long as you have food for them, it breaks some of the experience you were having.
3. The amount of useless cosmetic items that fooled me at the start of the game, theres literally an cube with weird description, saying the integrity of the planet, and when you press it, it launches an orbital strike to the space, breaking the atmosphere and changing it, who would have guessed that it's just a "press me to customize the looks of your space". Theres another item like that that i found wandering arround, its a white neon ball with also a weird description, when you press it, it teleports and changes in shape, does absolutely nothing.
4. The boring mandatory quests, if you played the game you know what iam talking about.

Game is probably not for me, don't get me wrong, the problem here isn't walking a long time through places, its just that i didn't see much content, i dont need new things every 10 minutes to keep me entertained, but knowing all the new things im going to see are some new structures and a scary modified bear doesn't sound like im going to have much fun here, this game is probably for those people who enjoy straight challenges, knowing whats going to happen.
Another thing, *theres NO jumping* (in a SURVIVAL OPEN WORLD game) and the fall damage is no sense, you could be in a slop terrain, going down and you would break your leg for nothing at all.
Also i didn't get to play the story mode, it wasn't included in my game so thats why, but im sure its a good story

Game is not intuitive, teaches you nothing, just throw you there expecting that you learn something, you are obligated to make a server even if you want to play alone (even if its Dont starve TOGHETER, you should be able to play alone, since its a direct upgrade with more things than the other game), which if you arent aware, reduces your performance, since you are hosting a server, so its not 1gb ram but almost 6-7gb if you are the host, making ppl with 8gb ram like me not able to play at all

Requer brotheragem ou namorada pra jogar

I had to put my damage on 200% and damage taken on 10%, while also using command artifact to beat this game once with mercenary because it was required to get a very good item, honestly the way how unlocks in this game works are atrocious, the good items being locked behind annoying achievements. The judgement trial is just like the simulacrum/eclipse from ror2, but here you cant change your moves to alt moves, for most characters this is alright since 90% of alt moves are horrible. In this game its not your skills and reflexes that decide if you win, but the game itself, if there is a one shot protection, i didnt notice, the mobility here is non existant, i can count on one hand the characters that are able to beat moonson without command artifact or modifications on damage (also hey if you are one of those nerds that got 2000 hours on a game like this and is going to tell me that every character is good, please dont do that, being one of the best players shouldnt be a requirement to play the game), also i feel like i should say this, loader grapple feels like ♥♥♥♥ to use, while in ror2 i feel like im playing another masterpiece inside a masterpiece just because of the grapple, its such a disserve what they did with loader here.

I will still play the game until i feel like its impossible to get said achievement

ALSO, THE GAME IS ABANDONED, I WISH I KNEW THIS BEFORE BUYING IT

Do NOT play catfight if you want to keep your sanity stable