A very cute design but overall its quite awful. If you're into "hehe poopy poopy funny" comedy and ready for extremely tedious gameplay riddled with bugs this one's for you.
The tedious grind.
- beginning combat is generally quick and painless, mid-game it becomes a slog of attacking one enemy for about 5 minutes while they dodge 90% of attacks and stun your character repeatedly. Late-game even more tedious from overinflated health of everything. I made an entire Domino's order waiting for it to end.
- everything mediocre is ridiculously expensive and everything decent is in a lootbox with a micro chance of dropping, have fun digging up 100 buried treasures for a few good items.
- everything is buried in mini menus. To go fishing, ESC, Crew, Crew Member, their melee weapon, select fishing rod. Now you're in combat, ESC, Crew, Crew member, their melee weapon, select sword. Over, and over, and over, and over again for each NPC, holy bad GUI design.
- in many combat instances you'll have to fight enemies on shorelines or ship edges where the enemies will stack together and repeatedly knock you off into the water. You'll do a long sinking animation then teleport back to your ship. You can get stuck doing this for a very long time or you can wait for a very long time for the enemies to scatter a bit, awful.
- the map is massive and there are thousands of POI but once you level far enough to take on the captains you'll have to journey to each one hitting every pebble on the way, forced to sit through a long loading screen, encounter screen, loading screen, just trash.
The bugs.
- all menus have a sort of "lag" to them like they're running at a lower FPS than everything else.
- combat pathing breaks for your sailors, they just stand there doing nothing while getting attacked.
- treasure claim circle will be at a different elevation than the treasure itself, sometimes far beneath it
- your character dodge stat doesn't actually do anything, leveling it makes no difference
- "legendary abilities" can't be used, at all, by anyone
- thrown daggers will remain on screen in next area, just floating in the air
- all ship menu items don't actually do anything except for the cannon activation one
- crew prioritize eating citrus even when they don't have scurvy wasting the supply
- getting the burglary option screen when already in combat with that enemy
- sometimes NPCs who say they will join you just don't, their AI breaks and they get left behind
- no means to control animals on board your vessel, at all
- sometimes a NPC has to walk across the whole ship to remove the poop and sometimes they can just do it anywhere inside the ship, same with fishing.
- many of the achievements are bugged and have been for years
- you can get a script prompt instead of what its meant to display softlocking you out of the interaction
Neat concept, if it wasn't programmed by a 12 year-old
