Great game, feels like a mix of Terraria, Stardew and Minecraft, in a good way.
The early to mid game is the most interesting, but starts to fall off during late game
Fun:
- Exploring the world is extremely fun
- Upgrading weapons and tools feels really rewarding
- Animals are cute
- Building is fun, a lot of decoration
- [spoiler] Stormbringer [/spoiler] is imo the most fun tool / weapon in the game, love that thing
- Bosses can be scanned, giving you the location on the map, so no need to frantically search for them
- Overall great game to spend time with your friends / spouse with
Problems:
- Builds are very constricting, because some items have stats that are completely useless or are obviously weaker than other options
- Finding new items in harder areas, just to find out the loot is worse than the last weaker area is annoying
- By late game, you will only be building crit chance & crit damage on Melee, Magic and Range builds
- Poison, burn, explosive builds are extremely underwhelming, by late game these builds will never reach the DPS of other builds
- (Nitpick) Too much decoration when exploring, it clogs up your inventory
- By the time you get [spoiler] Rune Song [/spoiler], it breaks the game with absurd burst damage, making later bosses obsolete
- Not only normal armor and weapons are unbalanced, even the Legendary weapons aren't balanced properly, just look at [spoiler] Rune Song vs Phantom Spark [/spoiler].
- Leveling up is stupid, how the XP is tied to successful hit rather than damage dealt makes the upgrading process really tedious
- Some bosses are rather boring, by late game it becomes a game of DPS battle, whether you melt the boss first or the boss kills you first
- The game is also not completely finished by the time of this post, but the later areas feels incomplete or sloppy, it is noticeable that there are much less loot variety, newer ores also make a lot less items
In general: I'd say this game is 6/10
8/10 with friends
