I have been seeing and hearing the jaded impressions of people whose lives literally revolve around playing video games and thinking, “Are we playing the same game?”

This game clicked for me when I started walking past a safe radius from my ship, counting on some distant installation to recall it. Before then, I was icon-hopping in a utilitarian way. After that, I was scanning the horizon for zinc to maintain my environmental protection, dipping into caves and lakes during storms,…

It’s frustrating because NMS is obviously yet another game that really challenges the ways in which we approach games critically. I would hate - HATE - this game if I felt like I needed to just “get through it” so I could meet a review deadline (and I really appreciate how Kirk has obviously done his best to eschew…