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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 79.7 hrs on record
Posted: 6 May @ 3:05pm

Cool AAA open-world game with lots of flaws and no Steam integration.

- No Steam achievements.
- DLC are standalone games: you are either playing good open-world base game or either of 3 DLCs.
- No end-game and rudimentary new game+ with 0 fun.
- Balance issues: game is super easy even on Nightmare difficulty, but then vault with lasers or timers and you MUST reduce difficulty temporarily.
- Annoying "checking for additional content" message every time you go into main menu, takes 1+ minute EACH time game is started.
- Poor controls which often do not work, hard coded keys which makes certain popular keybindings (ESDF) dysfunctional.
- Annoying repeatable animations: almost every action you do, opening chest, upgrading, crafting, picking up will be followed by useless animation, each of which you will see 100+ times if you made to the end.
- Unexplored things are added to a map with poorly implemented exploration mini-game, where you need to spam one key, while trying to find something unexplored by looking at every shiny thing in the distance.

+ Big world to explore, 5 biomes, diferent enemies, lots of hidden treasures, various puzzles.
+ Nice story, good cut-scenes with remarkable main characters.
+ Music, sounds, effects, surroundings, art-style of a solid AAA game.
+ Enjoyable combat.
+ Gliding (who do not like to fly?)

I bought this game with 90% discount, which is well worth the time it takes to complete base game. Some fraction of this time was spoiled by poorly designed puzzles, not working controls, bugs with physics or targeting issues. But otherwise it's a solid game.

I wish there were no DLCs, but more base game content, more weapons/armors, various enemies and some sort of end-game. I wish there were Steam achievements so I'd spend some extra time trying to complete them.
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