Len's Island

Schade, das Spiel hat Potenzial. Es macht Spaß, vielseitige Aufgaben, Gegner, farmen, erkunden, einen relativ guten Bau-Editor. Was hätte man doch daraus machen können. Coop Spiel: Bei uns hat es geruckelt. Leider kein Server möglich. Die Karte, letztendlich viel zu klein. Auch die Inseln, alles so gedrängt. Richtig groß bauen, naja... . Aber was letztendlich wirklich ärgerlich ist, es kostet 25€, für 60 Std spielen und die Story durch zu haben. Ok, es fehlen ein paar Erfolge. Enshrouded kostet 30€, wir spielen es seit Release, und wir sind noch immer gut beschäftigt. Es gibt regelmäßig Updates. Die Welt wird immer größer. Aus einer Sicht gewinnt Enshrouded um Längen bezüglich Spielspaß und Langzeitmotivation.

So the first review that popped up for this game was a thumbs down for me. But I don't find that to be the case. I was skeptical of the game just looking at the screenshots and such. However, I'd say that overall it exceeded my expectations so far. First and foremost I'd like to say that playing the game with friends will improve your experience. My friend isn't always available and I feel like the game progresses much smoother with someone else there to help it along with me. But also, it wasn't so hard on normal that I wasn't able to progress the game myself if I choose to do so. The placement of things can be a little annoying, but not an overall deal breaker. In the caves for example you can place a foundation on the higher of two platforms and stair down from there for the smoothest transitions. Otherwise it certainly does appear to be a mess of foundations and steps going up then down to accommodate the landscape. The palisade walls can certainly present a challenge of trying to place them, while simultaneously not blocking shots from towers/ballistas. NPCs are vendors. They simply buy/sell things, but not directly in dialog, I actually consider this a Quality of life option which allows me to interact with the object I want to buy or sell directly without needing to go through pointless dialog every time I want to buy/sell. I did not find the combat to be clunky. I enjoyed the hammer most of all for most combat because I could also use it to mine rocks and such provided the hammers tier was high enough. However, for slimes the spear was more ideal as it kept you out of range of the slowing effect. Mention of the monster variety was made. Yes, there are limited things to fight in regards to variety, but also a few "special" mobs to fight as well (Such as a massive slime) which gives it a "boss fight" type setting to some things. There is a mention of a lack of automation. There are 4 places where you can automate resource gathering and farming can be partially automated with the use of an automatic and semi automatic watering. wood, stone, components, and metal automated miners exist within the world. Farming easily pays for anything provided you put forth the effort to build your farm large enough. It's worth mentioning you can adjust settings for the world itself to increase the resource gathering multiplier and respawn rate of resources, you can turn off crops dying without water meaning you don't have to micromanage them. Periodic Raids - You can turn down the number of enemies, reduce their sight range, reduce the harvest moon frequency, etc. You require the harvest moon for some things. There was a mention of backpack size and storage being no good. However I feel the opposite. Storage can be cheap to create, and your backpack can be upgraded throughout the game making the experience easier as you go along. Not to mention you will never find yourself in a situation where you find a new item and are unable to pick it up because you have too many individual items. You can carry up to the backpack limit of every item in the game at once. By the end you can have 500 of each item in the game on you character with you. This is ideal in my opinion. There was a complaint about underworld mining lacking "colorized areas" on the map. But you can place your own markers to indicate the location of things. Those options are limited, but don't, in my opinion, prevent me from identifying areas of interest. In fact, my only complaint is that sometimes between the west and southwest on the starter island it tanks my FPS from 80+ to 60's in most situations, but sometimes to like 8. I'm not sure what bug causes that. But it's annoying. It's worse when shadows are on by a lot.