Bootstrap Island

YARR, I GIVE THIS GAME 10 OUT OF 10 DOUBLOONS!! Listen closely, ya landlubbers! I strapped this glowing porthole-goggle contraption to me visage to live the high life. Instead, the gods of the sea marooned me on a cursed tropical rock, handed me a twig, and forced me to suffer the pure, unbridled agony of 17th-century tropical misery. Shiver me timbers, the ocean looks so clear and refreshing I almost forgot I was shivering to death while attempting to drink me own salt-tears. I spent forty-five bloody minutes of real-life labor furiously rubbing two damp sticks together in the dead of night, huffing like a broken bellows, only to discover I was trying to set fire to a thoroughly soaked coconut. The local wildlife consists of foul-tempered flying demons and shadowy nightmare-beasts that exist for the sole purpose of scaring the soul out of ye, causing ye to bash yer real-world knuckles against the tavern wall. Me final verdict? Well, by Davy Jones' locker, this be one of the finest, most nerve-wracking, and jaw-droppingly gorgeous survival tales in all of virtual realm! The mechanics be as brutal as a cat-o'-nine-tails, the atmosphere is thick as thick-cut bilge-water, and sur…

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It doesn't feel like a finished game at all. Needs more computing power while looking worse than some other games, although the water fluid reactions are pretty nice. It's very buggy, sometimes gamebreakingly so. Interactions with objects are a bit finicky and wonky and I just climbed a rope to get out of a passageway where I would have had to walk back for a long time without water but fell down multiple times because I couldn't get off the rope as you would expect and just fell straight down instead. After I finally got off the rope at the top near a tree the game just didn't let me keep going further so I was stuck in a small space even though there was nothing blocking the way. My only way was to fall back down and get damaged a third time. This just makes no sense and is especially annoying in a survival game where bugs like this can kill you pretty fast.

Performance could be better and some gameplay elements, but climbing to the top of the mountain and staring out over the island, thinking of all of the unlocks to be had and areas to explore, has me looking forward to putting my headset back on. It has been years since I have had that feeling. Awesome game.

This game is THE survival game for me, I genuinely have to worry about storing enough of anything to make it through, not to mention it turns into a horror game by night. Easy five star review if I could.

SOOOOOO GOOODDDDDD