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It's really good so far! Lots of improvements:
I'm glad to see it still has the same energy to it. You can tell they prioritize what's fun and entertaining over what makes sense. My first spell is being a human flamethrower? They emphasized what real people like about camping rather than how it helps in the game? My main pawn acts like she's waited her whole life to go fishing every time she sees a fishing spot?
I wonder how many times the dev team said something like, "wouldn't it be funny if..."
- It's gorgeous, obviously
- Lots of little quality of life enhancements like automatically looting the chest when you open it
- Climbing both terrain and monsters is much more fun and intuitive
- Mage attacks now home in on enemies, love it!
- Mage light attack is actually somewhat useful
- Pawns shit talking arisens, including their own, is fucking hilarious
- More common rift stones is so useful
- Exploring is much less tedious, I'm not constantly getting jumped and there are so many little side paths
- Crafting system is more inviting. I've already crafted more items in this game than I did total in the first one
- Pawns offering to show you stuff is quite cool
- Mini map icons aren't explained well (it took me hours to realize the exclamation points are just things pawns commented on)
- The icons also don't behave consistently (sometimes treasure and chest icons disappear after picking them up and sometimes they don't)
- Time sensitive items don't seem to be indicated anymore
- What was the inventory button now opens the map - maybe I'll be okay with this once I can carry more weight, but I open my inventory ten times as often as the map
- Pawns are still idiots who get themselves killed in dumb ways (I had two jump off a cliff after a monster into deep water, sigh)
- It kept me up until midnight without me realizing the time and I had a hard time turning it off even when I did
I'm glad to see it still has the same energy to it. You can tell they prioritize what's fun and entertaining over what makes sense. My first spell is being a human flamethrower? They emphasized what real people like about camping rather than how it helps in the game? My main pawn acts like she's waited her whole life to go fishing every time she sees a fishing spot?
I wonder how many times the dev team said something like, "wouldn't it be funny if..."