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by Entropy Stew 05/05/2019, 1:36pm PDT |
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This is a open world sandbox RPG very much in the Gothic eurojank tradition, but more hardcore. The save system...isn't. It's like something between a rogue-lite and Eve Online. Your character does not die when killed, but is, instead, hauled off somewhere while unconscious, potentially with a load of items missing afterwards. As there is no save button, neither is there the ability to reload. "Quit" and "Continue" wholly demarcate your continuity. On top of this, you constantly need to attend to your own body.
You know Fallout's "Hardcore Mode"? That is this game's pussy mode, if there were such a thing. Your body is thirsty like ESL Tinder spam. You will not forget to fill your waterskin in the morning. Also necessary: food, sleep, and body temperature. You spend so much energy shoring up the base of Maslow's Hierarchy that you'll swear you've been enslaved by the pharaoh. Don't just down that raw chocobo egg like so much premix bro shake; cook that shit. You don't want a disease, right?
Disease. So, I got bit by a hyena or wild dog or something and got infected. That shit was taking off like 3% of my life per minute, so I hauled ass back to town. I didn't know exactly what I needed to do to get rid of it, but the tutorial told me that I could sleep things off in the absence of medicine. So, cheap bastard that I am, I decided to just head home and lay in bed for a couple days. I didn't have anything pressing - time was cheap. I crash upstairs for two days, wake up, and the infection was gone...and replaced with ACCUTE INFECTION. Shit. It's ticking for like 7% of my life per minute. Fuck this, I am going to to the doctor. Alchemist? Whatever. They've got what I need. I rifle through their stock and locate the item - some tea. Bam, tea drunk, infection gone.
This game, this fucking game, it modeled true-to-life how I seek medical attention. Game of the decade.
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