The Survivalists

通关了，但是玩得及其恶心，不停的在做重复的事情，制作道具也相当繁琐，好不容易熬出头逃离岛屿了，还要被剧情恶心一下，反胃反胃反胃

I picked up this game a long time ago and only recently decided to return to it and complete a full playthrough. I'm not sure why I initially gave up on it, but I mostly enjoyed the most recent playthrough. On the surface, it is a survival, crafting, and base building game. Every action from building, to crafting, to fighting, requires interaction by the player. Thankfully, there are monkeys scattered all around the islands that you can train to perform your menial tasks. In fact, if you tell your survivor to do a task that requires extended time to complete, the survivor complains and says "can't a monkey do this?." This can occur even before you have any monkeys which breaks immersion a little but it's fine. I played solo through the entire game. It can be played coop but that isn't required. I died a few times, and some of the corpse runs I went on were annoying. Still, the map isn't very large so it's not too bad if you have to build another raft to travel to your corpse. In the mid-game you get teleporters which make travel almost trivial. Your monkeys can die but they respawn fairly quickly. They can fight alongside you with any weapon you are capable of crafting or finding. They can chop trees, dig for dirt and sand, mine minerals, and gather all sorts of items. However, they can only have one job at a time. I told a monkey to dig up some sand for me. I came back an hour later and found a giant pile of about 500 sand and a monkey standing in the center begging for a shovel. The game is fun overall. There are a few flaws I found, though. - Combat is very repetitive. Slap, dodge roll, repeat. - Ranged weapons do almost zero damage to harder enemies. I think bows are meant to be equipped by your monkeys so they can do a little bit of damage while you smack at things with a big stick (or a sharp sword). - All items (except the legendary items) wear down very quickly. Expect to need multiple main weapons to clear the big dungeons. - It's almost a requirement to have a monkey or three follow you around carrying a chest to augment your inventory. There are SO many items and item variations in the game that every time you go out to gather materials or clear a dungeon, you'll have dozens of different items that need to be stored. I've filled up multiple large chests in a single dungeon. It doesn't help that I'm a loot junkie, but still. - The chest-based inventory system is good (especially setting up monkeys to allow crafting from nearby chests). That being said, unless you personally place all items in specific chests, the monkeys don't do a very good job of organizing. If you tell them to move items from the ground to a chest, they'll do it. That is, until there is a new item or an item that you have 0 stored. At that point, the monkeys just dump them into the nearest chest. It would be nice to be able to filter chests by item type. That would make finding specific items a lot easier. Given there are several dozen crafting items and variations of each of those, and random loot and food items, the storage options are limiting and sometimes very annoying. - The NPCs in the game are somewhat helpful but the items they sell don't respawn. They really should. Even in the very late game, I found myself needing materials that are not farmable. I'd run across an entire island looking for a specific item (I'm looking at you, fruit) and only get enough to make 2-3 food items. There are some food processors that allow you to "upgrade" one food type into another, but the ratios are terrible and some of them require items you can't plant in your farms. Despite pointing out the flaws, the game is fun and worth a playthrough. The ending is ... not great. It doesn't make me want to replay it. That's fine, though. I think I've gotten as much enjoyment as I wanted and expected out of it. Make sure to step into the light at the end of each of the main dungeons, even if you don't teleport out. I found out I was missing a major quest item when I tried to finish the game and had to replay every dungeon until I found the item I was missing. I got it on the third full dungeon. The items in question spawn after you beat the dungeon boss. They appear in a shaft of light that serves as a teleporter out of the dungeon. Great if you walk into the light to teleport out. Terrible if you go back to explore the rest of the dungeon and leave via the main entrance without stepping into the teleporter. Here is a bit of helpful advice: Don't fix the galleon (big ship) at the center of the map. It doesn't do anything until the very end of the game and only serves to drain you of resources before then. Use the hard-earned and crafted resources you have to make stuff you need.