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Today we're going to take a look at the first person wilderness survival game, The Long
Dark for PC.
Containing several different modes, you can choose to play through the story following
Will after his plane crash as he tries to survive, play survival mode where you select
your starting parameters by picking them individually or by selecting one of the pre-made ones or
you can play a challenge following through the objectives till you reach the end or die
trying.
For this review I followed through the story and while I'm generally not a fan of survival
games, as their entire focus is to make you feel weak and desperate as you try to make
it through....
This was really no exception.
To start with, the graphics are a little low quality.
Even being played on "Ultra" you find things have a pixelated feel to them.
This does seem to have the same effect across everything in the game, so it was probably
a graphical choice by Hinterland Studios, but it still feels a little poor.
The story held little tutorial outside of a few messages that appear telling you that
you should really melt some snow to get water or start a fire to stay warm.
It even says straight out that you should check the controls menu if you need help figuring
out how to do something!
I mean, they do seem to give you plenty of time to figure out the basics, but the lack
of any kind of direction on how to do things, even so much as what the buttons do seems
pretty lazy.
One of your first objectives is to find shelter from the storm and make a fire that lasts overnight....
Which they actually make you do.
Time is sped up a little and sitting there crafting a few things every now and then does
speed things up as it takes time, but regardless I sat there for literally, not figuratively,
LITERALLY 30 minutes just watching a fire and making sure it didn't burn out.
The story itself seems pretty slow, which is probably a good way to describe this game.
They try to make it seem all mysterious and interesting, but looking at it just feels
boring, bland and the characters seem rather emotionless.
At least the survival part of things works out pretty well, though I still can't guarantee
what all of these icons mean since you're never actually told.
Thirst and hunger seem pretty obvious, but the others....
The first one seems to be your body temperature and I guess the second is how awake you are,
but neither one is actually pointed out.
This seems to be the Long Dark's theme, tossing you and your character into the wilderness
and expecting you both to figure it out with next to no explanation.
At the end of it all, I give The Long Dark 1 "handy knife" out of 5.
As I said, I'm really not a fan of these kind of games and while they seem to have the survival
part down pretty well, letting you make your own decisions and trusting you to keep control
of how and when you eat, drink, giving you choices how you want to survive, the rest
of it falls down pretty flat.
The story feels like it was tacked on just to give you something else to do, the lack
of any real tutorial feels rather weak, especially since it took me almost an hour (half of that
spent just staring at a fire in a cave) to get out of the initial area and the graphics
across the entire thing seem generally pretty poor and just made it really hard to enjoy
this game.
At least the sound and the occasional music sequence was done pretty well, but none of
the good points are enough to save this game for me.
If you enjoy survival games and love the slow, suspenseful moments that seem to (and sometimes
do) last forever, then you could get some enjoyment out of this.
Well that's it from me, thanks for watching and be sure to like, subscribe, comment below
on what you thought of The Long Dark or what games you'd like to see me look at and tune
in next week as I'll be looking at the third game from the Humble Bundle Monthly, Warhammer
Dawn Of War 3.
Anyway, I'll see you all in game!
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