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Usually not one for horror games due to them usually being kind of boring gameplay wise but this is a really fun climbing game with a horror style. The horror element leads to some really good "do or die" moments where your forced into a decision you wouldn't otherwise want to make and thats when it really shines.

For the price of admittance it is a fun experience to try and smash all the challenge modes on and off over a day or two.

I would say the game is too easy and could do with some re-tuning, the fall damage you are able to tank is far too generous and once you've gotten an good understanding of the hook you are able to outpace the monster quite comfortably and those do-or-die moments on really happen maybe once or twice during one run of the challange map in normal play.

Some suggestions:

Difficulty Toggles
1. Harsher Fall damage
2. maybe a realistic difficulty with rope fragility (i.e the rope being tugged when the player is moving x speed = snap)
3. Generally faster centipedes and more of them
4. Giving the centipedes more range to stretch out from surfaces they are attatched to.
5. Giving centipedes the ability to bite and disconnect a players rope (so hanging out their reach is not auto safety)

EDIT: Developer has added centipedes biting the rope which is nice :)

There are a lot of cool ideas here and what game play there is there currently is quite fun though a lot of polish is needed for sure as I found myself getting bored fairly early on for an rpg.

I love the fact most things you do in the game can be leveled, it would be nice though to be able to see exact stats of how our level of a skill effects it, for example my jumping skill is 200+ and It would be nice to know exactly what % that adds to my jump height.

The combat being physics based is fun, I specked into unarmed and have had a blast dropkicking, kicking and throwing my enemies around, however I have found that combat in general is far too easy or at least most enemy spawns are far too easy, it would be nice if that game had more complexity to it as currently I can just unga bunga my way through limitless hoards smashing enemies with my stone fists and honestly it barley took any real time to get to that point. I am not sure if this is just an issue with unarmed but im thinking not as enemies really didin't seem to grow much stronger if at all the farther I travelled out the map.

The calendar system is a fun idea though being almost 2 months in game now ive yet to see any days that had anything truly unique or amazing that I thought "oh I better make sure I'm at that location on that day" and have stopped looking at it for the most part.

Looting items also I think could use some love, I like having not to think about carry weight too much towards the latter half of RPGS though having unlimited carry weight from the start is honestly too much, it makes me not care about what im picking up and just infini loot everything without really looking at what I am getting, better imo to start with limitations and upgrade as you go along to get to that unlimited bag of holding point at a later point in the game.

Most quests I have found so far are not worth doing, almost all of them so far just confer a usually pitiful amount of xp and gold which if you had done something else more freeform you could have had many times more, for example why travel across the map to specific location to get a specific thing and travel again to bring it back when you can just open the overworld, hold space till a roaming bandit squad attack (which takes like 20 seconds if that) and kill the 5 dudes for an instant 150xp, which is good bit more than most quests ive seen, it just doesn't really make sense.

Adding to quests and xp rewards, there a system off "assignments" that is a bit whack, you can PAY your own gold to get harder assignments which I don't think makes any sense and usually the 500 gold doesn't seem to really get you all that much which again can just be like an extra 70xp in some cases, where again why would you not just do an overworld battle for?

The taming system is fun though I have yet to be shown how to tame anything bigger than the rabbits or slimes, tried the traps on pigs, flying eyes, chickens and nada which is a shame.

The main story seemed to just... stop, I was to get a certain reputational score in a city, reached it and poof, end of mainline quest so far it looked like which is very very dissatisfying.

The biggest issue I found though more than anything was the amount of unfinished content spread throughout the game along with content that IS finished which was very jarring, so example for the Halloween event I was going around wheat-fields in a priory fighting pumpkins, going into it I found a preist waiting in an abandoned church called "the mad monk" but talking to him I just got a dev note saying this npc had no purpose yet. And its not just NPCS but I have found many places throughout that have stairs leading to nowhere, full empty buildings and dead ends making the game feel like some 2d film studio, I get the developer maybe wants to leave these here to show that things are gonna be pretty big and epic one day but I would honestly rather these things just not exist in the game till their fleshed out that walking into a tomb that tells me it is not really done and has nothing but basic loot in it.

The gameplay is fun and that has not changed, however I have to review this negativly as people like me that bought the game have been ripped-off in a pretty huge way.

Since the game started all skins could be unlocked absolutely free, they were part of the game you bought and part of the progression, now though those same skins If you haden't unlocked them yet have been retroactivly changed to be behind a paywall, this is taking content you paid for and locking it behind another purchase which is completely un-acceptable and should be illegal.

The way it should have been done is everyone that paid for the game would be able to unlock all costumes that were in it up until it went free to play freely, all the costumes added after the epic buyout should have been the only paid ones.

Again I cannot stress the point you now have to pay money for something that was previously part of the game you already paid money for, that is disgusting.

Overall I had a great time for most of my playtime with this game, its a good life cycle game like Stardew/Harvest moon with some uniquness to it and some flaws. Also I played this blind with all DLC from the beginning.

The in-game day to day cycle is packed with their being lots of objectives and goals to balance, especially if you have DLC installed and it keeps you busy. You can always feel the next upgrade/piece of equipment on the edge of your fingertips to expand your abilties/facilties and its quite satisfying while you are in the situation of having a million things to go after. The game is not always quite so clear though and if you don't want to use the wiki (like me) for most of the game then their is going to be a lot of trial and error especially when getting to grips with alchemy under the church.

Later on in the middish to late game I would say it degrades quite a bit though, once your goal list chips down to only a few objectives youll spend more time waiting for certian things to be farmed or days to come which can create a bit of a fizzle out scenario when you do complete the game, doesn't ruin the time I had with it, but not a satisfying way to end given how strong it sucks you in for most of it. Also make sure if you do decide to get DLC, do it early in your playthrough if not right from the start as most actual gameplay benifets from the DLC won't really be useful in the lategame.

There is no dynamic social system like other life-sims, with NPC's friend meter being more of a meter of storyline progression than anything else, what it lacks in NPC relationships though it makes up for in backstory with a interesting lore behind the townspeople, their relationships to eachother and the world itself, though I would say this was primarily a winning point of the DLCs. There are some objectivly bad things I would like to point out, the fishing system of this game has little purpose with their being only one mission that requires silver star quality fish, but for some reason there is an achivement to catch 200 of the buggers, this serves as padding to gameplay time at the end of a playthrough so keep that in mind. Also there is a critically important item that is never directly introduced to the player, a permenant resuable teleportation device that is sold by the barman for an insanely small amount given its power, this leads the player to believe its single use seeing it and could be far better introduced.

For DLC recommendations Game of Crones easily takes the spot for both gameplay progression and story adding a decent side campagin, stranger sins adds a good gameplay benifet with some decent backstory and lore delivered via cutscene and better save soul is... uneeded, its quite un-substantial compared to the other 2 DLC offering a system of convinence that is not really worth the full asking price, buy on sale and its maybe worth IF you have not started your playthrough yet, as for game of crones id say its worth the full asking price and stranger sins probably a sale, but not as much of a sale as better save souls.

Lego Indiana Jones 2 has gameplay thats out of the norm for a typical lego game removing the replaying of previous levels for 100% and having substantially smaller levels, but many more of them. in a typical lego game you can expect 15-30 decently long levels with hidden collectibles which you are to play 2x over at least, but in this game there are instead 90 short levels that you really don't need to replay provided you collect enough studs with 1 third being the story levels, another those same levels Post-story events in a kind of remix and the last third being custom levels that serve as an example of what can be done with the new level creator.

This is the first lego game to feature proper hub-worlds with a lot to explore in-between story missions, each episodic act in this game features its own play-set sized hub-world to hunt down bonus missions, characters, vehicles. races and cheats to unlock. Honestly its a very refreshing take on the lego games and made it much more interesting than previous entries.

There are some low points though, most of the brawl and vehicle missions can be quite samey which are 2 of the 5 missions in each act, but the vehicle post-story remix missions are quite fun. Some remix missions are way cooler than others, one you have to put out a fire from the story which is pretty meh, another you find the ship from the intro of the movie in the hands of a giant squid and need to take its treasure which was cool as hell.

All lego games feature "bonus" missions in full lego enviroments requiring 1mil studs to be found to be completed, this game I feel overused them making them no longer special with each act have one for a total of 6.

This game EASILY has the coolest bosses of any lego game yet! Most of them are large beings made of some kind of element run wild and are always an enjoyable spectacle.

This game has a create a level mode that I don't really care about but its nice to have the option I guess, though I will say the 30 levels the makers made using this mode in the main game I could take or leave and don't do anything for me, I woudl rather they had been replaced by another 15 story and 15 remix levels.

So to summerise the game does have some negatives, but overall I think it did a lot to shakeup the forumla and was the most interesting one to me so far and the first oh the OG lego games I fully recommend.

Honestly I don't think it's a very good game story wise and gameplay wise. The first mission of the game sets it up to be a very cinematic story driven game, and that parts great, but then it pulls the rug out from under you and most of the game is just doing very samey quests in bland open worlds with the rare bit of story every now and then. The core gameplay loop is usually to infiltrate a base/outpost, perform an objective and get out again while trying to remain un-detected using a variety of gear. The games progression system of equipment unlocks its mostly useless though, the game has an insane number of weapon trees and upgrades but the game will ALWAYS detuct score from you for killing, meaning the most of these give you no real incentive to go after.

The game also has a very shoe-horned in online mode that actually interupts the main story halfway through with you needing to having online bases to have any chance at unlocking later teirs of equpiment, of which only a tiny number will even matter to you since lethal options are dis-liked by the scoring system. It's so bad in-fact that you could earn items and resources by playing single-player and a multi-player player can steal them from you if you are not careful about keeping the online mode away.

I installed a mod that allowed me to customize actual gains to resources and even setting them ALL to 2x it was clear the later tiers of unlocks would still take an insane amount of time, my friend set his to 10x and was still having to grind like mad for some.

I don't know quite what this game wanted to be, going by the first mission it would have been something great but the online components and need for an open world really got in the way of that and I don't even know what else behind the scenes ♥♥♥♥ nerfed it before it could even fully develop, I don't recommend this game :(

If you got this free with pre-order then fair enough but please do NOT buy this seperatly if you did not. It is 1000% not worth it at ALL and was absolutely just put it by the devs to appease to they money hungry producers/execs who did not want to leave "Money on the table" or some ♥♥♥♥ like that.

Please note I do actually recommend this game but there is a reason for my red flag just a bit under.

The game is great 3rd person shooter having fast paced combat with a huuuge amount of customization and variety of weaponry and abilities, The story/lore is really interesting though imo not explored enough. A big point in its favour is that you can play the whole thing totally free with no part of the game paywalled and I would recommend buying a 2000 - 4000 platinum bundle once you get a 75% off voucher to give yourself a big headstart but mostly to support the game.

HOWEVER, despite being a free game the prices of the ingame items "prime access" is quite unethical imo, the amount they charge for a single cosmetic armor set + syndana thats part of a primes release is 31.99 pounds (so like 40 dollars). That is insane, whoever thought it was okay to charge as much for a couple of model assets as for an actual fully made game should feel ashamed of themselves. Heck there are games that cost a couple of quid that are VASTLY more worth it, seriously do NOT waste your money on prime access, I did once and regret it immensly. And thats not even to say anything of the actual full prime access that comes with the accessories, weapons and profile icons ad ONE HUDNRED ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ POUNDS, 1/3 - 1//4 of the price of a nintendo switch that also come with ingame currency and boosters for drop-rates, both things designed by the game makers. I seriously cannot stress enough how much I like every aspect of this game apart from prime access, its a cancerous unethical pox and I hope it dies I really do.

The games okay, defo something you can spend 1000's of hours getting good at but can't approve of charging 25 quid for a skin, its unethical even if the games free.

I got this on the Friday from Humble Bundle... and 18 hours of intesnily focused gaming I have no regret, easily the most sucked it by a game I have been in a long time. A first person puzzle platformer collectathon with some combat and action elements, its actually so damn good, I would even rate it HIGHER than portal.