#need. more. storageeeeeeeee

[theskoomacat]

dove into Dredge recently. it is good, but frankly more plain than i imagined. objectively i would rank it high enough, but it is beyond my power NOT to compare it to its peer, Dave the Diver, and Sunless Sea. and when i do, i find it a little bit lacking.

survival is a lot less brutal than in Sunless Sea, it is too easy to farm everything you need without being in danger, or to move to a (nominally) more dangerous location and rack in cash by selling expensive local fish. i wish there were some time constraints (DtD had time constraints both in each mission and between them) and perhaps overfishing mechanics where you are at least forced to move between locations for fishing to remain profitable.

again, compared to DtD, i miss having a more linear experience. right now it feels really dissonant to be doing a quest among the ruins of an ancient temple to become the next prophet of Dagon or whatever the fuck - and at the same time feeding the capitalist machine of the modern not-oil-rig next door. yes, you can tell me: "you can just choose not to move on to the next thing before finishing the previous one" sorry i suffer from the chronic "every moment i am not producing ice cubes i am wasting time and money" disease, so when presented with the opportunity to take every possible quest and only then start doing them at the same time i will do so. and it's the devs' job to stop me.

depending on whether it was the devs' intent, it might be sad that the horror aspect is lackluster. i wish it leaned even more heavily into the whole lovecraftian horror thing, i wish the town started going mad from the deformed fish i sell them, for example. the lighthouse lady asked me what i was doing out there and i said "just fishing", and while she got offended i "lied", it wasn't a lie to me. my mind really is preoccupied with fishing and ways to improve my fishing ability, not the horrors.

otherwise - the graphics and art (hello Darkest Dungeon) are nice, i really enjoy the storage puzzle piece mechanics, i like exploring and ticking things off the to do list. there's a lot to do, and it makes complaining about having too much money and a too fast engine ring hollow lol. (the only bottleneck to my unstoppable growth is the research parts. the rest is very easy to get.) i love that the game has a camera, but i'm still not sure if it actually takes pictures and/or registers animals on the photos. bumping into stuff often feels like pure bs, but, again, i have enough money to not give a single shit. Traveling Merchant, i have feelings for you.

[sunset-synthetica]

need more storageeeeeeeee