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I would not have written a bad review, but the community is so rude that i will do it anyway now.

(Detailed infos about each aspect of the game is further down)
I have nothing against EA/Alpha games that are unstable or have lots of bugs, and i think it is always unfair to judge a EA/Alpha game based on that. So i will not talk about that in any way.
I also dont like to judge a game if i have not even played for atleast a couple of hours, and i will most likely continue to play to atleast get my money worth out of it.

There is also nothing bad about a game having little content in EA.
The reason for my bad review, is that this game plays and seems like a money grab.
You pay atleast 40€ for nothing. If this had been 10€-15€, i would have probably given a good review.
But you should always charge a fair amount of money for your EA/Alpha title, based on the amount of content you have and work you put in.
And this is just not worth the price and feels/seems like a scam.

They have an extremly low amount of content, that they hide behind unnecessarily long waiting times and crafting times.
You essentially have to play 10 hours to unlock some basic house building stuff (this takes significantly longer if you are alone or in a small group)
And they do this with everything. They strech what most survival games would consider to be 10 hours of gameplay, to 500+ hours of gameplay, by making every little thing super hard to get, cause you have to level each skill (that you need for something) to a ridiculus level for hour and hours, just to build for example a basic looking wall.

So, they basically strech that tiny amount of content as far as they can, to justify the price point.

The scam gets even worse, once you read that after EA, you will have to pay a monthly fee depending on the size of your plot, to keep playing.
And no, 1 plot size is not even close to big enough to do anything other than the basic stuff that you do the first 5 hours. You need atleast 3 or 4 to do anything.

The game is supposed to be a "social mmo", which is what interested me the most.
The community is supposed to fill the world and build a player based economy by trading with other clans and people.

There is just one problem... There is no trading. Litteraly the only thing you can do right now, is throw items on the ground and hope you dont get scammed by people.
There is no system for money, no market stalls, nothing.
So, the game cant even provide the basic content that it is supposed to be build upon by the community.

You join into a okay looking (perfectly good for an EA game) world that is filled with lots of players.
Very quickly, you learn that there is nothing to it though. And no, that in itself is not a bad thing. I really enjoy the idea of a world that is being filled by the community. But the world is really big, and there really is nothing else to do other than to gather, craft and build houses.

You will also see, that you can not play this game alone. You need a big group so everyone can do a different job. Otherwise you will probably spend litteral months to do anything.

Crafting your first gear, gathering items and "hunting" animals for loot, is the most generic it can be.
You press e to collect, press craft to craft. The only difference to a lot of games, is the waiting time. Some things take a really long time to craft and unlock.

This seems to be their strategie for every ascept of the game (like i said before), to get people to play for hundreds of hours without actually providing content.

When you and your group eventually get to the next tier of axes, you can really tell how many "tricks" they try to use, in order to strech the little amount of content they have.
With the tier2 axe, you can now cut down bigger trees. These trees however, dont give you anything new. So, why do you have to craft the tier2 axe to cut down new tress, when you get the same stuff from the other trees?
You have to play for another day (you will not be this fast if you dont have a group of 20+ people), just to get the next axe to then the better wood.

Your Inventory is tiny, stacks are tiny and there is no way of crafting backpacks or carriages to gather more of the items, after you have to walk 30min to get to them.

Building in this game is also extremly generic. And i mean, extremly generic. The friend who told me to get this game, said that its an even better building mechanic than what enshrouded has. Well, its not even close.
Even if you unlock everything, which takes extremly and unnessecarly long, you barely have anything to work with.
You get some basic foundations you can place, there is no voxel based building or anything. Its basically like in ark, but you only get stone, clay and wood, and you need to skill carpentry to an absurd level (this takes litteraly forever. i am not even 1/6 of the way there yet) to even unlock these simple building options.

This is the kind of building system you get from games where the focus lies more on other aspects, like exploring or farming etc., but in this game, that the only real thing you can do, which makes this super sad. And again, of course this is an EA/Alpha, but dont let me pay 40€ and then hide that tiny bit of content behind 500 hours of generic crafting and gathering.

The plot size of 1, that you get when buying the 40€ version, is also not nearly enough to build anything cool. You can build a small house and have a few chests and crafting tables. Thats about it. So, you have to pay 100€ if you want enough space to build...

Just dont. There is nothing to explore. And you have no option other than walking.
Sure, the map is really really big and thats super cool. But if you make a map that for an EA/Alpha release, atleast provide the players with basic horses to travel.
You take SO long to even travel to the next stone deposit. Good luck walking all the way to the next tier of iron deposits, just to get a handfull and having to walk all the way back (This unironically takes atleast 30-50min, depending on where your base is)

Once again, extremly generic. Nothing new or good. You have basic attacks, a few different weapons and shields.
There is really nothing else to add to this.

This community is suprisingly toxic. This is the main reason i even got motivated to write this review. I initially though i will just let them do its thing and see where it takes them, eventhough i really feel scammed rn.

The community makes it super hard to like this game, since you basically can not have your own opinion without 20 people attacking you and putting words in your mouth.
They also all seem to know this game in and out since everyone seemed to played all the closed alpha versions.
So, as a new player you dont really get any help from them.
By the time you finally made an axe, everyone has already rushed to some big project, which makes you feel super left out and you can not catch up at all.
They tell you that "because there are no players levels, and only skill levels" you dont need to rush along. But you do. If you dont keep up, you have to rely on everyone else to make even basic stuff for you.

The community is also putting these "clown" rewards on every negative review. I think that tells a lot about them.

This game is simply put not worth 40€, not even to support the devs. It feels, looks and plays like a money grab and a scam. If the game actually releases, you loose access and have to pay a monthly fee.
If you really wanna play this game, wait and see how things are in a few years.
If its not a scam, good.
If it is a scam you will be happy to have saved your money and time.

Im very sorry for the devs.
Good game with a bad publisher.

I was hoping that sony might apologies, but since they now removed the game from the steam store in the countries who cant make a psn account, they definitly wont.

My Xbox Controller is just straight up not working in this game. I also could not find a solution for this anywhere... And since keyboard controlls seem to be really bad, i can not play this game... Looked promising but i guess i wont be able to play this until it gets fixed one day...

This is one of the worst programms i have ever used. I bought this a loooong time ago and it was full of bugs. I started it today, thinking they fixed some of them, but no... its gotten worse... No avatar will load. Everytime i try to do so, the whole software just crashes. I also cannot Broadcast. When i try to broadcast, my whole system sounds get really bugged and weird. I bassicly only hear every 10. letter. Almost like a poping sound. And there is also no good way to get rid of the drivers. They just stay on your computer. You can uninstall the audio and video driver by hand, but that "animze" driver just stays and im not able to uninstall ist... This is such a bad piece of software... Do not spend 15$ on this...

Lego Builder's Journey is a very well made game that tells a cute little story and is fun to play.
I think it is more a visual representation of RTX then an actual game though. The Puzzles are not hard at all but they are really fun due to the interesting mechanics they made. There are some bugs here and there where the curser disappears, but you can just restart the level which is no big deal. Visually, the game is great! Especially the dark levels with RTX On. Music and sound design is also very well done.

I would probably wait for a sale to buy the game though. I feel like a maximum of 2 hours worth of gameplay is not worth 17€. If you dont care about that, or have the money laying around anyway, i would say you should definitely go for it! It is a really great experience and it tells a nice story!
10/10 would definitely recommend it. Especially for a great RTX experience :)

I can litteraly not get enough of this game. The concept is great and its well made. There is already lots of content so you can play for a really long time until you run out of stuff you can do. I love these kind of games and i have to say, in my opinion, Satisfactory is the best out of all of them! I can definitly recommend this game to everyone who is into factory building stuff.
Already looking forward to future updates!

Arizona Sunshine ist einer der wenigen VR titel wo man über einen längeren Zeitraum Spaß hat. Mit längerem Zeitraum meine ich das die meisten VR spiele meist nur kurze Storys haben die ca. 30-60minuten gehen wenn es hoch kommt. Aber in Arizona Sunshine hat man mindestens 2-3 Stunden spiel Spaß in der normalen online Kampagne! Und es ist eine angenehm schwierige aber durchaus schaffbare challenge es auch mal auf schwer zu versuchen! Also für jeden der ein actionreiches Multiplayer spiel sucht das man länger als 30min spielen kann und das nicht so einfach langweilig wird für den ist Arizona Sunshine genau das richtige! Das einzige was ich ein wenig schade finde ist das Dead man DLC da ich dies zusammen mit einem Kumpel innerhalb 20-30minuten durch gespielt hatte. Wir hatten und in diesem DLC mehr erhofft! Aber mal schauen wie das neue DLC wird was diesen Sommer(2019) noch dazu kommt!

Dont get me wrong, it is a good game. The visuals are stunning, controlls are perfect, lag free, great sound.
But the sad thing about this game is that its the same thing all the time. You go into a room by pressing buttons and flipping switches, shoot a few enemys and go to the next room by pressing and flipping more buttons and switches. And the last chapter is litteraly a switch flipping simulator... in act 8 you flip more switches then you fight enemys. Also killing enemys with the late game weapons is waaaay to easy. We only played trough the whole game because we where hoping for something exciting. But the end is completely disapointing... The game is really boring and i wouldnt recomment buying it because it doesnt have much content and its boring and nothing more then a switch flipping simulator...

*SPOILER WARNING*
the end is just the prolouge game... i was really hoping for something like a big hard to kill end boss or something but there was nothing except for a few enemys wich where easy to kill with the late game weapon...
*SPOILER ENDS*