Expeditions: Samurai

Shows promise. As many have said the art design needs help. I am not a fan. Combat very much like Rome so easy to pick up if you are familiar with Rome. Very little content in Early Access though. Also not a fan of stealth. I always just end up killing everybody. Which kind of defeats the purpose of stealth. All talking skills have to come from the MC so he really has to specialize in that not sure if I like that or not. No deal breakers for me. If they add enough content I'd play 40 hours of this no problem.

Only played a short bit, but they seem to have used real Dutch voice actors to play the part of the Dutch shipcrew. And they talk in great "Steenkolen Engels". Unironically, that is awesome.

Expeditions: Samurai — Early Access Review There’s definitely promise here, but at the moment Expeditions: Samurai feels very much like an Early Access game rather than a fully realised successor to what came before. The tactical combat remains the obvious strength. When the game actually puts you into a proper tactical encounter, you can see the foundations of something excellent. My problem is that I’ve spent surprisingly little time doing that. There’s a lot of exposition, and after the fairly strong opening 30 minutes — where I thought some of the dialogue was genuinely clever — I’ve found much of the writing and pacing fairly average. At times, I’ve simply been a bit bored waiting for the next substantial tactical fight. I also agree with a number of other players about the stealth system. It doesn’t quite work for me in its current form and, strangely, can actually feel overpowered. Being able to repeatedly engineer kill shots takes away some of the challenge. I’d rather stealth were integrated more naturally into the tactical system, forcing you to work out positioning, concealment and approaches within the same framework that makes the combat interesting. There are also a lot of smaller quality-of-life issues that need attention. The game needs much better explanations of its mechanics, statuses and character states — something closer to the useful glossary/reference material of previous Expeditions games. Likewise, hovering over a character should immediately give you basic information such as hit points and current status rather than making you hunt for it. The party and camp systems also need building out. Six characters feels like the right primary party size to me, and I’d like the camp to become considerably better organised and more meaningful as the game develops. At the moment, several of these systems feel more like foundations than finished features. There are still quite a few bugs, which is understandable at this stage. Visually, I also prefer the look and overall presentation of the previous Expeditions games, although I appreciate that the developers are trying something different here, so I’m interested to see where that goes. Overall, this is a C for me in its current state. There’s enough here that I’m certainly not writing it off. The tactical foundations are strong, and you can see the potential underneath the Early Access roughness. But it needs considerably more tactical content, stronger pacing and writing, better UI and information, a more satisfying stealth system, and more fully developed party and camp mechanics. Current grade: C. Potential: A — and, if everything comes together, perhaps even A+. It’s a reasonable start rather than a great game yet. I’m hopeful, though, and genuinely looking forward to seeing what the first major update does with it.Expeditions: Samurai — Early Access Review There’s definitely promise here, but at the moment Expeditions: Samurai feels very much like an Early Access game rather than a fully realised successor to what came before. The tactical combat remains the obvious strength. When the game actually puts you into a proper tactical encounter, you can see the foundations of something excellent. My problem is that I’ve spent surprisingly little time doing that. There’s a lot of exposition, and after the fairly strong opening 30 minutes — where I thought some of the dialogue was genuinely clever — I’ve found much of the writing and pacing fairly average. At times, I’ve simply been a bit bored waiting for the next substantial tactical fight. I also agree with a number of other players about the stealth system. It doesn’t quite work for me in its current form and, strangely, can actually feel overpowered. Being able to repeatedly engineer kill shots takes away some of the challenge. I’d rather stealth were integrated more naturally into the tactical system, forcing you to work out positioning, concealment and approaches within the same framework that makes the combat interesting. There are also a lot of smaller quality-of-life issues that need attention. The game needs much better explanations of its mechanics, statuses and character states — something closer to the useful glossary/reference material of previous Expeditions games. Likewise, hovering over a character should immediately give you basic information such as hit points and current status rather than making you hunt for it. The party and camp systems also need building out. Six characters feels like the right primary party size to me, and I’d like the camp to become considerably better organised and more meaningful as the game develops. At the moment, several of these systems feel more like foundations than finished features. There are still quite a few bugs, which is understandable at this stage. Visually, I also prefer the look and overall presentation of the previous Expeditions games, although I appreciate that the developers are trying something different here, so I’m interested to see where that goes. Overall, this is a C for me in its current state. There’s enough here that I’m certainly not writing it off. The tactical foundations are strong, and you can see the potential underneath the Early Access roughness. But it needs considerably more tactical content, stronger pacing and writing, better UI and information, a more satisfying stealth system, and more fully developed party and camp mechanics. Current grade: C. Potential: A — and, if everything comes together, perhaps even A+. It’s a reasonable start rather than a great game yet. I’m hopeful, though, and genuinely looking forward to seeing what the first major update does with it.

Very promising early access, cool artstyle. Keep up great work!

Oddly enough, I like the art style, including the 3D portraits. It’s quite expressive and the dead eye stare is less prominent than what the store page screenshots indicate. The UI art especially is gorgeous though especially coupled with the sound effects when interacting with the interface. Mechanics-wise, I’m not sure I can comment much because of my low playtime, I’ll update this later when I’ve spent more time with the content currently available. It seems similar to the previous Expeditions games, but I don’t have an opinion yet on the newly added mechanics especially the stealth system. And yeah, I can see what people mean when they comment on the Marvel-style banter. Try reading the tooltips in the settings, and you’ll see what I mean. They can be hilarious, but it’s definitely not what I expected from quite a serious and supposedly historical game. On the story and I suppose historical verisimilitude, I couldn’t care less as long as the game is fun. Though I find the reaction of some people who are against the game’s presentation of history can be intensely aggressive and disrespectful. I wish people were more composed and rational when airing out their grievances and that both sides would spend more time discussing, instead of putting each other down because of their differing opinions. The forum currently is not a pleasant place to learn about the game and give feedback to the devs. Anyhow, I’m tentatively recommending the game, and will update the review after I’ve played some more.

Very promising first act. I enjoyed almost everything in the 8 hours I spent completing the first version on the hardest difficulty. There are some bugs and incomplete features/balancing issues, but I am still looking forward to the eventual full release of this game.

Ich fand’s echt gut. Das Voice Acting ist richtig stark und hat mich total abgeholt. Dass es historisch nicht immer ganz genau ist, ist mir ehrlich gesagt egal, es hat trotzdem Laune gemacht und die Stimmung war klasse. Ein bisschen schade war nur, dass es so schnell vorbei war. Ich hätte gerne noch mehr Zeit in der Welt verbracht. Aber alles in allem: Daumen hoch, und ich hoffe, da kommt noch mehr.

too many gamebreaking bugs and no fix updates. total let down.

So far so good. Story is nice, clearly based on the Shogun series/book. One thing that nees to be changed is the hidoues faces and art.