Eastward

Thought a lot about this review but ultimately, with the amount of incredible indie games out there, this one is just not worth it. The best part is the art style and animation. Beautiful style, beautiful colors, and very beautiful design. The music is also good, and the sound engineering is done will in my opinion. The mechanics are average. Good amount of choices to approach a battle, but I personally thought it was too many. Mechanics are introduced in the literal last dungeon of the game and it's frustrating because you have no practice with them at all. The story and pacing is where this falls apart even more. Story wise the first chapter of the game is great, and then it just slows down, then it slows down even more, and at the end it speeds up pretty severally but at that point you just want to be done with it and the damage is done. My main question I have is why? why does anyone do anything in this game? The motivation of the villains in particular is just never really clear in a really weird way? I finished this game exclusively because the art is just that beautiful but I would say...just watch a playthrough.

I can't wait to finish this so I can start a replay. I'm so in love with this game.

my heart both full and sad at the same time

I need to start listening to the bad reviews. My god is this game an absolute slog. So much dialogue I feel like they have to be trolling at this point. Even just skipping past it feels too time consuming at this point. But honestly my real issue is that when they spam dialogue like this you just feel like you are being taken out of it skipping through all of it. If you are gonna buy it use a ceedee key or wait for a comical sale.

I love this game! the music, the pixel art, the world and the story are all amazing. i never played earthbound or mother (many people have said this is inspired by those games) but this game is amazing.

Eastward is probably the best overhead 2d game on steam.