Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsAddictively fun for about 10 hours...then left only with lies and endless grinding---worth a rental
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2016
This game promised so much by creator Sean Murray. It was incredibly ambitious, maybe two ambitious by the 4 people that began working on it at Hello Games.
It starts out full of intrigue and promise as you have to repair your ship and the entire universe awaits. There is danger and landing on the first couple of planets yields new experiences each time. In an effort to improve your multi-tool, ship, and suit you rush around to the various types of outposts that are scattered all across the planets in an effort to "reach the center" or "explore" or "improve your equipment".
After about 40-60 hours or so the game becomes a huge grind. Exploration becomes less rewarding as planets get repetitive. You may have completed the Atlas storyline by now and realized it is a disappointment. You may also have maxed your suit, took, and/or ship by now--or are contemplating how much work it will to do this. Getting a maxed ship is a huge grind of either going to transmission towers over and over and over again for crashed ships or grinding money for hours on end. Either way, this alone is going to be a week's effort alone, and could vary based on your luck/ability.
So you get your gear maxed, maybe less important to those who just want to explore--but like I said, exploring gets old ages before you max your equipment so those people have already stopped playing/are playing far less than those trying to reach the center. Now you contemplate reaching the center and you have all 3 hyper-drive upgrades (still looking for confirmation Omega exists other than in game code). It is literally going to take hundreds of jumps to reach the center. It can be done but it is perhaps the grindiest task of them all because just the materials for the warp cells is going to take hours and hours to mine and create. There is no "create x" number of them. Then you are going to grow increasingly disappointed once you realize as you get closer to the center there is not any new variety or rewards. Once you get to the center you are going to be very disappointed
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To find out that your reward is that all your equipment is broken and you get to start over and do it again in a new galaxy that takes even longer to reach the center and you get to grind even more materials!
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To cap is all off, disregarding the game crashes and rare freeze, Sean Murray is a liar who intentionally created hype to sell more copies rather than let the game speak for itself. He lied about multiplayer which does not exist and would have been a very helpful side quest--to find and interact with other explorers. He lied about the potential variety of the game. He did not lie about the size--it's painful large which will be all to clear if you do make it to the center, which I estimate 95% or more of the people who buy this game will not do. It was a great idea but for a sandbox games falls short of a game like Minecraft in overall gameplay, variety, replay value, scope, and obviously multiplayer. I will not be supporting Hello Games in the future regardless of their pursuits, not because the game is bad, but because integrity is important to any company and they utterly lack it.
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