Well I tried out The Flame in the Flood. Unfortunately, it is a game that I find has some serious flaws that create unnecessary difficulty.
The Bad:
I wasn’t particularly enthused by the music and sound effects. They honestly have a “Mute Dog” option. I didn’t realize why until I was partway into the game and the dog was barking at literally nothing. Or dandelions that I already had 20 of and were, to my knowledge, mostly useless. I guess the AI didn’t realize I had already picked everything up. The Dog also, to my knowledge, only warns you of enemies… well kinda, usually it’s too late by the time he sounds off.
A lot of the things to craft require items that require items. You get more of them as you go along, but some require doing “quests” that usually can’t be completed until much further along because you don’t get enough the materials you need.
The Ugly:
Boat handling sucks bad. I understand the idea is to have you progress forward, but if you accidentally leave an island, well fuck you, you can’t get back because you push off forward.
Predators. You know, I am okay with there being a boar here, a wolf there that you have to deal with. Not with one on every. single. fricking. island. past area 1. I ran into 3 wolves consecutively. Unless you know a wolf is there, you’re basically screwed because scaring them off doesn’t give yourself enough time to set up a trap. I shouldn’t need to set up a trap on every island. Oh yeah, and you can’t set up a trap near a fire, which is ONLY place that you would have enough time to set anything up after the predator (specifically a wolf) is alerted because it keeps it at bay.
Cure all or not at all. You can get multiple wounds per “battle”. But you can only cure all of at least the same wound at once, too bad if you have enough supplies for only one.
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Needless to say it pissed me off and can go down into fuck you to hell land.