The Long Dark. What the fuck happened? I'm so sad. For those who don't know, it's a very good survival game and a huge passion project with a long history. Once a small indie-game supported by strong community turned massive hit and things starting to get a little fucky. The game has been released in aug 2017 with 2 of 5 episodes of the story mode with the promise of granting the rest for free to those who bought it before that date. They kept their promise, but the episode development went extremely slow, long story short - episode four came out only two days ago. Oh, and: (1-3) ep. were meh at best while the meat of the game has always been the survival (sandboxish open-world) mode.
Now I've finished the fourth episode and gotta say I'm a bit stunned by the experience. The third one has had already some questionable sjw-like (or rather fem-like) stuff in it but now - oh boy. The whole plot of 4th episode can be summed up as: the leader of *roaming free* convicts (all white males, by the way) pushing you around on the surround area while *someone* messing with convict's plans, contacting you and eventually you meet and team up (enemy of my enemy and all that). Now, who is this *someone* might be? With a deeeeep female voice, allegedly bright and promising young scientist?Bye-bye, game.
It's a game about exploration. To solve the problem of warmth, you need to find decent clothes first and for that to loot at least a few locations (depends on the difficulty) so you have to deal with wolves w/o a weapon which is yeah, extremely annoying thing to do for a newcomer. But when you know the maps well you can just avoid them pretty much all the time. While doing that, you make your way to Desolation Point and make a bunch of arrowheads. After that, a bow and the wolves problem/food problem is solved as well.But I must say the game has become so pointless. It is practically impossible to stay warm without constantly providing wood in a house that has no roof so you must start wandering which I'm fine with but the level design is just weird. It makes it almost impossible to find anyhing without previous knowledge or a walkhrough.
So if you wander - which is the sole point of the game - the wolves will get you on the way. It is cool the first 2 times you fend one off with a flare. But then the 6th or 7th wolf will get you every time, and then it will be super hard to make another attempt, and another.
Yeah, that's a sand-boxish game for you - you set your own goals. I'm usually get bored after crafting more or less full survival gear: wolfskin coat, deerskin pants etc etc or after exploring every nook and cranny of the recently added location.Eventually you find the house in Pleasant Valley and you have everything you need but the game becomes totally boring.
Why do you say that? Are you referring to the fact that you can't move immediately after attacking?Odallus looks and sounds really good, but I couldn't finish it because of stiff and unresponsive controls. It's a shame they couldn't nail such a crucial aspect of a platformer.