Recent reviews by ackondro

Oh, you can't play every day, but can play an afternoon or two a week? Animal Crossing hates you, but Dinkum says Good on ya.

A bit simplistic, but pretty fun. The random visitors don't always visit as much as they should.

Two steps forward, two steps back.

* Does it look better than Portia? Sure, though you need to up the default texture quality otherwise a bunch of stuff looks low res.
* Does it get rid of the creepy Portia faces? Yes.
* Is constructing items more clear? No, it's more confusing and fiddly than Portia.
* Is gathering a stamina-less action? Nope, bending over to pick up a flower still takes as much stamina as breaking rocks. You can chase tumbleweeds to get a few materials and that doesn't take stamina, but still.
* Running doesn't seem to run out as much.
* Oh, there's fall damage now, you can't skip waiting on their elevators like you can in Portia.
* At least you can save during the day, but you can get a mod for that in Portia

Honestly, the early game is confusing and way less fun than Portia. I can definitely tell that work has gone into fixing issues that were in the previous game, but now there's new problems. The characters I've been able to meet range from mediocre to very annoying, especially Pen who deserves to take a flying leap off a cliff. I don't think I've met a single character I'd want to talk to.

I'll probably pick it up again in a while to see if it improves, but I'm currently super disappointed.

It is just another Far Cry game like 3 or 4. Creativity? Not so much. Random vignettes where you're captured and forced to endure some "story"? Yep, still beating that dead horse. Ubi still can't make these games interesting to me.

I've liked the Hexcells games in the past, but have been looking for a similar game to scratch the same itch. After playing through this game, I can say it was a quite fun puzzle game.