Nope Nope Nope!!!

The main reason I'm writing this is because I've been waiting for a long time to play this game and in 2 hours of gameplay, 1 of the cubs died (from starvation lol, I've been feeding them like pigs), I got shot with a baby badger in my mouth while trying to rescue it. I opened the map over 100 times to visualize my location and to ask myself why can't I go places. I pushed every button on the controller on all paw icon checkpoints to see something happening.

It's visually pleasing, I'll give them that, but there are soooo many things wrong...

- The main story starts in a funny way (the creators should really know that a Fox has very good hearing which makes the whole intro BS)
- Controls are horrible and non responsive. (Button smashing feels like a freaking boss fight, assigning multiple actions to a single button is also annoying. Press A to jump over trap (pressing A, nothing happens, move slightly, trap triggered)
- The map is just weird
- Bringing food at the lair won't make any reserves, even if everyone is full (a badly designed surviving mechanic that forces you to do daily checks to prolong a even worse game loop).
- Really frustrating skill learning for the cubs (locations where you can't do anything because cubs didn't learn that)
- Specific locations will have some side quests, if you choose to go to sleep, forget about them, new stuff will appear the next day (Mamma badger, sorry for getting me and your cub shot)
- Artificially locking parts of the map so you'll have to waste days of eating/sleeping
- Stealth part??? Seriously???
- After eating so much chicken, rabbit, rats and fruits, WHY WOULD you create a Death mechanic for the cubs??? They literally ate more than I do on a daily basis and 1 of them died while Mamma fox was playing Sherlock Holmes in the forest. You really think I'll care about that 1 pup which got poached after another one randomly dies because of a ridiculous game mechanics?

After the ending, I sat silently in my chair for a while. There was not much I could say as I felt empty inside. So I stood up, walked up to my plush fox, grabbed it, hugged it and said: sorry.

Thank you for the trauma <3