Played during free trial on Hard but did not get very far because it ended before my days off work. I played as the default race that looks like a fox, and colored the fur purple. Chose sentinel class and vitality as my main stat, with str second. I wanted to make my animal look like a cat. The whole …
Played during free trial on Hard but did not get very far because it ended before my days off work. I played as the default race that looks like a fox, and colored the fur purple. Chose sentinel class and vitality as my main stat, with str second. I wanted to make my animal look like a cat. The whole animal concept of this game was weird. Before playing, I thought it would be about humans experimenting with genetic engineering on small animals to make some kind of bioweapon super solider. How else would you explain weirdly humanoid small animals using guns, swords and magic powers while flipping around like an acrobat? But no that is not the story, and I feel the game would have been the same with robots or humans or aliens or whatever. I got Light points and joined the Myriad good faction, even though they look lame in their robes and turbans compared to the samurai closed fist faction. I put all my resist points into cold, got the area attack for blunt, increased loot chance, increased clip size, mind control and blink. Melee is definitely the way to go with controller aiming and lack of lock on being less than ideal for shooting. I liked how blunt weapons can knock down small enemies, and the effective dodges; especially the fluid animation for dodging between the legs of the big guys. For some of the bigger minibosses I stayed at range with gun. I didn't quite get the hang of block timing yet and I did not like spending upgrade points to learn new moves that require button input combos. I groaned when I looked at the move list and was very disincentivized to spend points on moves instead of passives. But the area attack looked effective and was simple X X Y. That was the only move I bothered to learn how to perform. Many of the moves, powers and magic seemed of dubious value. I got to about level 7 and explored brick town, submarine base and a friendly outpost that was on fire. I scrounged whatever armor I found and thought my cat looked like a total goober going around with a
seemingly wooden mask I found in a washing machine. I crafted new weapons after finding some sweet parts; a light stone axe with hp restore on kill, and a clusterbomb shotgun with corrosive. The only time I died was twice from falling off a tight rope.
The game reminds me a lot of the Fable series; similar combat, duality, childlike tone, and themes. I was getting distinct Fallout feels from exploring the post apocalyptic world and looting random junk. And add in the generic open world that so many games have. I did find a couple hidden loot caches but more often there was nothing to find for exploring off the beaten path and trying to jump to difficult to reach places. I can't believe they used voice acted gibberish for dialogue, and then having the narrator translate. What a waste of development resources. Just have the animals speak normally. My first impressions were fairly good and I would give it somewhere in the 7/10 range. I would have to beat the game to know for sure. Probably not going to buy it unless it goes to $5 or cheaper but it does seem like a fun enough experience.
