Outward Definitive Edition

I enjoyed the game and found it fun but its not for everyone due to the mechanics being very unforgiving and tedious at times. it is a very unique survival rpg experience and even though it still has some issues which probably wont get fixed since outward 2 is being developed its still worth it if you have what it takes to actually get into the game instead of ragequitting after 3 hours like i did my first time playing.

Incredibly frustrating gameplay, cities were designed by my neighbor's toddler, winter is literally "let's paint the grass white and have it still wave in the wind." F for effort. Yet the game still has some charm and I'm not ready to quit just yet. I will however, give it a break after going two weeks (in-game) without dying only to have the game glitch while fighting hyenas and suddenly not being able to block. Oh and, just let the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ player die. It's completely immersion-breaking when I get dragged to a hyena lair, only to wake up in a cave where another hyena just keeps knocking me out and putting me back in the corner. Or getting taken by slavers who don't tie me up or take my stuff, then just let me walk right back out. Also, I've seen plenty of reviews comparing this to Dark Souls. ♥♥♥♥♥, please. Dark Souls is tight, controls and hit-box wise. Hitting the attack button in Dark Souls doesn't make my character spin to the side and suddenly target the guy who's out of range, exposing my back to the enemy I had targeted. Oh, I gotta add: I was really excited about the temperature and shelter mechanic until I learned it basically means you get to walk for two minutes, then build a camp and wait for three. So fun. Seriously, the areas are just way too small for the lack of shelter to ever really become a problem, so it feels like they sped up how quickly your character gets cold to make it relevant. So annoying. Also the fact that one day I slept for three hours and suddenly it was winter.

560円で買った。ラッキーｗ　やり始めから雑魚が強いと思いきや回避できるし盾も装備できるし、回復ポーションやテントまで張れて焚火でキャンプたのしい～　敵は数匹に囲まれれば狭い通路まで行き順番に撃破　盾あればすべて防げるし敵の攻撃モーションを読んで倒していくのはダクソまでいかないがそれなりに楽しくなってると思う。採取して装備強化、鍛冶屋に売ってるレシピから採取や動物から取れば強い装備ができる。　スキルとって好きな職を遊ぶゲーム。スキルは村にいる教官に教えてもらえば覚えることができる。魔法専門職、魔法剣士、召喚職、罠師・・強い所取りのハイブリッドも面白い。3500時間もやってる人はこの仕様が刺さってるのかな。レベル概念なし強さはアクティブ、バシップスキルとプレイヤースキルと装備のみ　思い付きで古いversionで遊んだりすると古いデータが残り起動しなかったり、UIが消えたりするので、古いデータは消し最新バージョンで遊ぶことと、セーブデータは自分で管理して遊んだりするゲームなのでバックアップをここぞという時はとっていいと思う。倒れて拘束されるとお金や貴重品が略奪されることがある。こういう仕様は他のゲームでない楽しい仕様になっている。^^;　

Game was hard to learn and a little rough around the edges at first. Once you learn the game it really opens up. You have to fail to learn though. My first playthrough I lost my home and got stuck in a death loop in the marsh not understanding how to survive. After a few attempts it clicked. Crafting is important, inventory management is important, finding a combat build you like and can succeed with is important, and adapting to challenges as they come up is very important. If you like games where dying has no stakes then this is not the game for you, you can lose time, gear and even end up trapped from some death screens. You even have a chance at permadeath with hardcore characters, but that adds to the fun. When you make it to the end of your journey and you're fighting multiple enemies on even ground, it feels amazing no longer being a scared weakling but a strong force of the world. The main quests besides like two of them of them are not time based so you can just throw yourself at the world at your leisure. Just beware winter will come and wreck you if you're not prepared for it. My favorite faction to side with is the Heroic Kingdom and I love going pistol and mace for combat. There's a lot of negativity in these reviews from people not getting it. Calling this game tedious is completely missing the point. It's literally a game called outward, you prepare to explore, then explore a world with many cool set pieces and secrets to find. 200+ hours in and I'm still finding new stuff with every playthrough. This game has had a special place in my heart for many years and I look forward to the sequel next year.

Talvez algum dia eu dê outra chance, mas considerando o quão tortuoso foi jogar 2-3 horas disso praticamente sem conseguir fazer nada direito além de morrer talvez esse dia nunca chegue já que: Andar no jogo parece tortura, muitos lugares o boneco nem consegue passar, e qualquer beirada q vc deslizar acaba morrendo ou perdendo uma bela quantidade de vida; Os bichos te perseguem o mapa inteiro até vc pensar em enfrentar eles e perceber que o combate não funciona 2 versus 1, então tenta correr e acaba morto por que eles tem vigor infinito; E o melhor de tudo, toda vez que morrer, vc acorda em algum lugar aleatório do mapa que nem mesmo chegou a passar perto. Então você procura tentar se localizar e repete tudo de novo. Preferi pedir reembolso logo.

This game is my escape world. After hours of work, I just enjoy a supposedly an hour play looting every ornate chest in Chersonese before I go to Emmerkar Forest and do the same. Until I realized 4 hours already past meddling to random encounters, going back and forth to sell loot, picking up Gaberries and making Tartines, mining ores until my pickaxe broke, fishing until my harpoon broke, picking up Blue sand at midnight, enjoy strolling in Conflux mountain with purple grass, swinging my Manticore Greatmace and see Bandits fly after hit by Juggernaut, making Horror Weapons and selling them to Levant merchants, listening to relaxing background music, then I go to Harmattan to farm some elemental particles..There goes my supposedly 1-hr play, finished about 6 hrs.. until I feel sleepy. :-D This game is my total immersion for me.

I fit within the exact niche this game was made for, but I can't recommend it. The combat feels so unpleasant that it comes across as disrespectful, and from what I experimented with there's just not any sort of depth to it. Combine that with how the game doesn't appear to value your time at all and it's one of the few games of this niche that I just genuinely don't want to put more time into. Which is a shame, because there's clearly so much there that I want to try out, but the execution is so terribly lacking.