The Lantern of the Laughless Saint

Sooooooo janky right now. - can't sit/sleep - I'm taking half health damage from a lvl1 skeleton but can wipe out a lvl 30 NPC no problem - my settings choices reset every time I die or log out. - the economy is broken, I'm selling everything at face value and basic leather boots are like 500 coins. - it bugs all the way out some times where the map is just bouncing around and then we're back to normal. - pretty frequent game crashes. Lots of potential though. I'll leave it for a week or so and come back to check in.

It’s got a lot going, but upon finishing it I feel very unsatisfied. Endings can be vague, but they should be satisfying too, this wasn’t not. The ending really kinda sucked for me because [spoiler] they have it kinda set up so only one person actually gets an ending, while the other is put aside[/spoiler]. Left an extremely bad taste in my mouth. I think the update that allowed single player characters onto multiplayer worlds was a bad choice. The game performance suffered immensely, with constant auto saves causing frequent desyncs (though this has been fixed) and joining multiplayer is harder now, less consistent. Before it was so easy to just click join game and get in. Now you need to choose a save, worry if save states match, blah blah blah. And, no quests done in multiplayer carry to your single player (as the guest) so like… what’s the point? I wanted to try to [spoiler] experience the ending myself, but I couldn’t because I’d have to replay the entire game. Stats are saved, but not progress[/spoiler]? Spell crafting is cool though. Wish you could edit spells you’ve made, and it can get super expensive. And a major gripe is how easy it was. I used two handed weapons, and killed the majority of enemy in 1 or 2 hits. Even bosses went down quick [spoiler] though I didn’t get to fight the final boss, so, maybe he’d be hard[/spoiler]. The first little bit is a challenge, but when the steamroll comes it doesn’t stop. No quest markers is fun and challenging when done right, here it isn’t. One quest simply said our goal was north of a town. It was barely north, and far more west than north at that. We might’ve found it quicker if we were given better instructions, but we weren’t. It needs better instructions given. WoW Classic doesn’t offer marker, but it works. Because NPCs give good instructions. All in all, I had fun, but feel very unsatisfied. [Spoiler]Also, the concept of it mattering who filled your audience seemed pointless. They were different colors but I don’t think it changed the ending AT ALL[/Spoiler]. I’d wait around, many updates improve the game and add new stuff, it’ll probably be so much better in just a few months. And when out of early access, hopefully it’ll be amazing.