Holy shit, did not expect to see Walter come up in this review, he’s a regular hometown hero around these parts (Just wrapped up a 4 week class he put on at the arts center in Arvada and looking forward to the next one he’ doing in January). He’s also the perfect person to pull a quote from for this game.

And you put…

It’s not like you need that many lives in a Mario game.

100% this! I’d rather buy standees at the start than spend my purple coins on 1-ups (FYI, if you do get a gameover, you get 5 lives when you restart). Especially in the later levels, you’ll have so many times people ask you for purple coins, you’ll regret having blown them on 1-ups. Again, at least 300 is good.

Nooooo, don’t do it! Don’t spend your precious purple coins on 1ups. Keep about 300 or so stocked for badges and wonder seeds, and spend the rest on Standees. Purple coins are *much* slower to farm late game, and you’ll need a whole heck of a bunch of them to round out your standee collection if you’re going for all 6…

“trying to change the industry for the better”

All well and good. I feel for those devs having to witness all the ridicule aimed at their work. And it sounds like Game Mill (whose name says everything, by the way) is a truly awful publisher.

“Low rent” would suggest that this is some $5-10 trifle that’s intended to be poorly crafted, dumb fun. This game is retailing at $40- while certainly not AAA territory anymore- it is no small sum. Nobody should be happy that this game ‘exists’ at this price point.

Yes, it’s bad. Yes, no one should buy it. And yes, everyone should know about how bad it is and how no one should buy it.

I mean, if you want to get up to all kinds of primate shenanigans, just play Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze instead. 

This is one of my biggest gripes with the game - they still haven’t gotten out of the TES mentality of quest design. Yes, having to run back to the quest giver makes in sense in a fantasy world, with no long range comms, in a sci-fi world? No.

“Find temples without speaking to Vladimir”

I saw this last night on a different site and it was already closed.  I’ve seen this article written on almost every other gaming news site today and ALL OF THEM fail to mention that you actually can’t download it.  Super click bait.

When trying to download:
“The early access program is currently full. Space may open up later.”

I miss thinkgeek

“not to mention various shortcuts that aren’t spelled out, like the ability to go immediately to the star map by holding down the menu button.”

I mean I have done a FO4 replay last year, and just finished replays of Oblivion and Skyrim, where I could go hours and hours playing, in spite of having played all three countless of times before. But in spite of having “new things” to do with outcomes I have no clue about, it’s just utterly boring and the gameplay…

i try not to ‘review reviews’ as a rule, but this was a really nice, informative and balanced read.

The biggest issues I have had with Starfield are mainly QoL and the procedurally generated content being way too consistent between planets.

Great review. My biggest concern going into Starfield is that they were trying to do too much with it. After spending a few weeks with it, I can confirm my concerns were validated. It’s a game that presents you with so many incredible ideas—maybe some of the most interesting and (more importantly, this being a game…

Why even bother if it’s that insignificant? They’ll spend millions for 10 bucks in a user’s pocket. That seems so backwards... The people in charge of Reddit are gonna kill the platform at this rate with these silly decisions they keep making