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Lovecraft and intense colours. Sounds horrible but does work for some reason. Rather casual difficulty in the riddle-department but always entertaining and not too trivial. Liked Abzu? Well in that case ... maaaybe you should take a look at this one too.
8/10 would submit to the elder god again maybe

Yes.







(Needs a secret Sauna-Only-Level though)

yeah ... this is sort of okay ... i guess. I mean ... at least it is not solitaire.

As for now i can't recommend buying, at least in case you are planing to run it on a ultra-widescreen-display.
Framerates were fine on my system. Having to look at thick black bars the left and right side of the screen: not so much. Also of course controller-support is a tad bit limited / broken.
Granted: using a PS4 controller on pc might not be the smartest thing to do, but then again this is a 60€ version of a 11 year old game. I would expect those things to work by now (yes it was connected via cable and the steam controllermanagement was deactivated).
I am not putting a lot of hope into an eventual update .. because ..well .. you know .. Automata etc etc.

Is the story worth playing ? No doubt it is.
Am i naive to expect a perfectly working piece of software from day one (even with my weird configuration): Most certainly.

P.S.: the mousecursor should not be visible the entire time .. and most certainly not in the middle of the screen. We did talk about that a couple of times before Square.

2019 Edit of this review is alll the way on the bottom.

This game ... holy s*** this game!

Ok word of warning, again the port from console to pc turned out to be ... less then perfect to say the least. Luckily the Nier FAR mod (Fix Automatas Resolution) will take care of most problems.
After "fixing" the game you will find a story which is ... remarkable. It was able to keep my attention for >150hours now.
I am not going to spoiler anything but i will say that this game is weird enough to keep me invested in it.
The combination of hack and slash with bullethell and RPG elements work for me (your milage may vary but thats what steam refunds are for).

Anyway .. give it a try. If you happen to like weird things you might like this one too ... oh and watch Jim Sterlings Review on youtube. In there you will pretty much find everything you need to know.

8.5 / 10

Edit: this was before i played End E

Now it is a 9.8/10.



....Time passes....


Here we are ... 2 years later.

Releasing a game of the year edition (2 years later) with laughably little extra content. Skins and two (2) desktop wallpapers. "Lulz no updates for you folks though sorry"
Thats ... kind of disappointing to be honest.

Apparently i have turned into a grumpy old man in the meantime but ... well as it is now with a lack of support and still ♥♥♥♥♥♥ framerates on a brand new system with an RTX 2080.

7/10

They should stop treating their PC-Ports like abandonware.

I loved this one on the PS3, bought it on Steam when it was on sale.

Played on PC for the first time a few Weeks later (so no refund for me) and had to discover that this console port is ... well ... unplayable on my system. Reason for that being the software being incompatible with my Keyboard (a Logitech G710+). Due to that the game runs stuttering like hell. It is unplayable in this state. The solution for the problem: Disconnect all USB Input devices besides the Gamecontroller.
No updates and no support from the publisher (which i cant really blame them for since this game is .. well it is rather old).
Sadly no community made fix either.

Should you stay away from this one ? Absolutely NO. It has tons of charm and nice/decent gameflow on the PS3. It seems to work for most people PC, just not for me. Even though i personallly have to give it a thumbs down i would suggest giving it a try ... right after you bought it though so you are able to request a refund if it should not work for you.

Von den Machern von "Journey" auf der PS3 / 4 hätte ich eigentlich ein "längeres" Spiel erwartet.
Der geringe Umfang täuscht jedoch. Selten hat mich ein so "kurzes" Spiel so lange beschäftig und tief beeindruck.
Das Team schaft mit dem Soundtrack von Austin Wintory eine perfekte Komposition von Audio und Visuals.
Ob man ABZU als "Spiel" bezeichnen weiss ich nicht. Action oder Strategie in dem Sinne gibt es nicht.
Ich würde es eher als eine Art "Experience" beschreiben. Ähnlich wie Walking-Simulatoren wie "Dear Esther" (es ist jedoch bei weitem nicht so langweilig).
Von der Steuerung her ist ein Kontroller sehr zu empfehlen.
Technisch gesehen ist das Spiel wenig anspruchsvoll und läuft relativ flüssig ... "relativ". Ab und an wird es hakelig was jedoch meist einen Grund hat den man gerne in Kauf nimmt: Mit dem Avatar durch einen Fischschwarm aus mehreren Tausend Einzelfischen zu schwimmem war für mich auf jeden Fall einer der "F*** Yeah!"-Momente.

Ist es eine klare Kaufempfehlung ? - Jain. 20€ sind nicht die Welt, aber auch nicht geschenkt. Ich habe damals zugegriffen als es im Sale war und würde es wieder tuen.