Recent reviews by Snurpsi

I have played several levels with 2 or 4 people and here are my thoughts. I played this on the easiest level. 3 of our team were very experienced gamers and 1 is a very strong player so this review isn't a matter of the people playing just not being very good.

TL:DR is its fun but it needs a large amount of balancing and big fixing. It is so hard so fast that it sucks the fun out of it and you don't really want to try again.

The game ramps up way too fast, At 6/10 objectives completed the ghost hunts so frequently you are doing nothing but running.

Once the ghost goes aggro it stays that way until it kills someone. We had 2 dead on the manor, one in the mirror world and one in the real world. She stayed aggro for about a half hour til the person in the mirror world stepped out and got killed.

Stunning takes way too long. I get that its supposed to be a challenge but when you have emptied your whole UV into the ghost and it still kills you it leaves you wondering what you can do to get away.

Hiding does not work. You can be quiet, in a corner, flashlight off, well hidden and the ghost will come straight for you anyhow.

It is still pretty buggy, the ghost has clipped through walls and killed me. Really takes the fun out of it. Sometimes the UV light won't work on the demonic creatures so you are loading UV in and still dead.

Why let the player jump when the only thing you can really do with jumping is jumping over the fence at the start of the level.

Suggestions.
1. Make the difficulty ramp up in smaller increments. It shouldn't be so hard you can't get anything but running and raising done before you have even completed half the objectives.

2. Put a timer on the ghost aggro. If it hasn't found and killed you after like 2 minutes take off the aggro.

3. Make hiding worth it. There really isn't a reason to hide because they are going to get you eventually anyhow.

4. Crows shouldn't steal the head while you are already burying it on the Manor level. Also, the absolute sheer number of crows ramps up way too fast.

5. Once you stun a ghost give just a fraction of a second longer before it becomes aggro again. The short amount of time coupled with the inability to stun again right away makes it not very fun.

6. Make jumping a more useful tool. Let people actually jump over the blood pools in the slaughter house or the grabby hand piles in the manor. It is pretty useless as is.

It is a fun mindless game. If you like games like Diable but want to share them with your kid this is a good option.

Do you like unskippable dialogue? How about endlessly walking back and forth to get 3 minutes of game play then more unskippable dialogue? Do you want to play a boring RPG inside a boring game? Eastward might be the game for you. If you don't like being bored as you click through the endless boring dialogue probable pass on this game.

Even though it is still buggy this game is a ton of fun. Can't wait to see more as they get it polished up.