Bellwright

I'll come back when the AI voices are gone. They're truly horrendous, it would be better just reading text. Rest of the game is great.

Game started good if a little buggy (to be expected as early adopters) but the decision to leave the paying PC players behind and port to console is shameful. Yes I understand the economics of "fleece the early adopters so we can grow the console market" BUT not when it means all your efforts are for console players, all your fixes are for console players and there is next to zero new content for your original players WHO BANKROLLED YOU! So if you want a game you can complete in 170 hours go for it - BUT in my case that means a further 390 hours or doing eff all waiting and hoping against hope that Donkey Crew and Snail Games remember who supported the game from the outset. Snail Donkey would be a better company name!!!!

IF they fix the major problems it will be one of the best games of its genre. It is in a completely playable state, however problems like below makes the game a big meh at the moment: First and foremost: Game is a colossal click fest. Killed a deer? gather all 27 pieces one by one through clicks. Building anything? 10.000 clicks. It literally hurts your hand tendons and joints to play this game and devs should seriously consider "hold mouse" settings. Now, wear presets are tedious. Even if you do the micromanagement of every single item, villagers will straight up ignore it anyway. Only companions and guards try to equip what you ordered them, villagers say "not my problem" and stay with the poorest equipment and bags available at the day 200 of the game and you have to GO TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM to make sure they equip the right things, you cant look at their inventories from afar. Logistics is a nightmare, if two warehouses can store the same item, villagers will spend their entire time taking those items back and forth between those warehouses while nothing gets done in village. you can try priority system but guess what? That will get ignored too. I set a crafter to 0 priority for animal handling. But it still did butcher deer all day while there were crafts waiting. Oh that said, you never know which worker does a workstation needs. There are gatherer hubs with drying racks outside. Set an outside camp, assign some gatherers, but you will never receive dried berries. Because appearently they need a crafter/cook to take raw mats from storage and hang them. And it doesnt write which skill does anyone use to at what efficieny until the worker is ALREADY there. You can put limits to storages, and you will need them too since you will get a meaningless amount of feather and stone from daily work so all your storages will be overflowing with feathers but guess what, the storage I set a hard limit of 300 feathers currently sits on 1000 feathers and nothing else can be stored properly now. Reminder, each villager has average 10-20 inventory space so good luck dealing with that amount. There are "outhouses" to dispose of these items but for some reason they have a capacity of 100 so you cant even get rid of unwanted items in bulks. Construction is a whole new world of pain in the *** because appearently devs wanted realism, and oh boy realism they did give, you install every, literally every single piece on a construction one by one through clicking on white dots. 90% of the game is white dot clicking simulator. "but dont you have workers for construction?" yeah except they are busy with delivery for cooking stations despite having 0 carrier priority and 1 construction priority. That said you may be lucky in your main village, but while building an outpost again, you have to pick all your men one by one, look at their inventories to make sure they have their hammers, then send them to the new outpost but what is it? There is no Construct building order for companions! you have to keep them as villagers and you just pray they decide to work on that construction. For some reason devs are hyperfixated on sound acting and AI complaints, but game has much bigger problems than that. I really want to recommend this game, I do, but it isnt fun. It is like a second job you work at.

Add 'Report Bug' button to the regular in-game pause menu, otherwise very stupid and pretentious to have us fix your alpha state (current trashcan ai voice actor, full of typos, endless boring dialogue, clunky, ui disappearing, TLDR- garbage) game for free and backing out to report issues every single time. Do NOT buy this at current state, unless you're a bored masochist like me... Get to work, bois, you got dis <3

I want to suggest this game, i really do. But right now? this is a prime example of an smaller dev studio using EA to publish a knowingly unprepared game with no intent to deliver. There's a lot i enjoy about Bellwright, so much so i cant list everything, so it pains me that the mark was so thoroughly missed for this game. And it pains me more that after two years the issues remain the exact same (according to other reviews on this platform) Here's The issues that matter: -Combat is INTENDEDLY utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the Devs have openly admitted to keeping it that way. "Colony Sim" is not a exuse for a poorly made ripoff of Bannerlord combat that manages to completely flop in all ways Bannerlord flew. Enemy AI, the block system which only works 50% of the time, attacks that feel like moving in water and the complete lack of basic movement like a dodge or disengage means that fighting more that one starved vagrant at a time is a quick path to a early grave. -Beyond player combat, Villager combat is entirely a numbers game. The AI has zero tactical thought; so battles quickly devolve into blobs of swinging weapons where the side that wins is almost always the one that has more attacks to stun-lock the enemy with. And with a seemingly endless and unstoppable tide of bandit patrols, you're almost always outnumbered. -Weapons and Armor have a grand total of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the outcome of a battle; the player and their villagers will always have a smaller healthpool than whatever you're fighting, even if you've spent multiple hours outfitting them with heavy armors and "powerful" weapons; a sword in your hands might tickle a bandit, in theirs, it can one shot you through a gambeson or chain. -The construction system is designed to be challenging... and by that i mean you're challenged to come up with a reason it was designed this way. just download a mod that speeds up construction, you'll not be ashamed once you attempt a single T2 building. -Villagers, in classic colony sim tradition, will do the stupidest possible things, from running directly into combat with a patrol of heavily armed brigands to not making the resource you've set to highest priority because they're busy hauling wood to a stockpile 500m away you've forbidden them from. The AI problems extend to enemies too, who will bumrush you with no thought for tactics or reason. this only works because there's often a shocking two enemies, who will immediately enter a attack pattern that makes it impossible to block their swings. -Many more issues that have less core relevance but manage to piss you off in ways you didn't think were possible. If you'd not like to read that, it's put simply this way: Every single challenge you will face in Bellwright is artifically produced by poorly designed systems. 4/10. Buy on 50%+ sale, not for the 30$ this studio claims their Unpolished EA game is worth

Denim jeans front pocket ahh type of inventory size. 0 thought behind these devs brains. Truly remarkable. If you go outside right now irl, you can put more rocks in your pocket than your character. And who's bright idea to not let player stack materials in their inventory while the main focus of your early game is all about resource gathering and exploring?? I know why, these devs spawn their loot and resource and never play test their own game before. how sad. DO NOT BUY OR PLAY THIS GAME AT IT'S CURRENT STATE! IT'S MISERABLE AND TEDIOUS.

多くの人にはおすすめできないゲーム アプデで古いセーブデータが使えなくなったので最初からプレイしてるものの、さすがにこのゲームを2周やるのがキツくて投げそう まず最初に言っておきます このゲームでは基本的に、苦労に見合った楽しいゲーム体験は提供されません それでも買う場合にオススメの遊び方 ・一緒に遊べる友達を3人用意するもしくはmodを使う ・オプションを以下の通り変更する 　襲撃の頻度：低い 　襲撃の戦力：簡単 　奪還隊の出現頻度：低い 　奪還隊の戦力：簡単 　食料の腐敗速度：25% 　装備の損耗速度：25% 　食料は爆速で腐るし、修理コストは比較的高く設定されています 　また、これに限らず必要に応じてオプションをいじることも大事です ・序盤に鹿を狩る時は射撃ダメージ400%にしてクイックセーブする 　皮が必要なのに鹿をワンパンするのは相当難しいので 　終わった後は元に戻しましょう ・序盤のイノシシは避けるか射撃ダメージ400%で先手を取る 　序盤の鬼門が狼というレビューが多いですが、真の初心者殺しはイノシシです 　貧相な装備でこいつに出会うと確実に殺されます。まず逃げることもできません ・革紐がある程度集まったら襲撃を無効にする 　このゲームの戦闘が全く面白くないことに加え、山賊は無限に巡回してくるため 　また、襲撃はバグでスタックしがちです 　普通にプレイすると複数拠点を持つのがデフォなんですが、すべての拠点で別々に襲撃カウンタが進みます 　つまり、拠点が増えてくると連日の襲撃で何もできなくなります 　序盤こそ1人で対処できますが、ある程度進むと挙兵から撤収で1日が終わります 　もしそこまでプレイしていたら挙兵に時間がかかる理由も自ずと分かると思います ・襲撃や奪還隊が川などにスタックした場合、移動などを挟み条件を変えてセーブ・ロードを繰り返す 　これにより彼らが再移動したり、意味のわからない場所にテレポートします 　テレポートした先がオブジェクトの場合、再スタックする可能性があります 　放っておけば良いと思うかも知れませんが、彼らを放置したまま翌日になると防衛失敗扱いです ・川岸など意味のわからないところに盗賊が1人スタックしている場合、放っておく 　重なって1人に見えるだけで10人以上スタックしてるケースが多々あります 　川岸スタックの場合はこちらから近付くとスタックが解除されるので普通にボコられます ・住人がスタックした場合は諦めて放っておく 　プレイヤーからできることはありません。諦めて待ちましょう ・水中に敵がおり、一生戦闘BGMが終わらない場合はセーブ・ロードする 　高確率でファストトラベルも使えない状態になっています ・未解放の村や武装商団の近くでは戦闘しない 　中立NPCがキル取った敵からは何もドロップしません 　必死にチマチマ削ったところで彼らにキル取られて全てが徒労に終わります 　なんならこっちの攻撃が彼らにヒットし、ボコられます 　少なくとも後半までは ・未解放の村に山賊が迫ってきている場合、山賊から距離を取る 　山賊がプレイヤーを狙っているとき、何かがバグって村の盗賊が全員敵対します 　一度こうなると、序盤では諦めてそうなる前のデータをロードする以外の解決方法がありません 　序盤エリアではパッドストウで稀に発生します ・物乞いは勧誘しない 　彼らは許容できる範囲を超えた無能です 　まあいらなくなったら追放できますけど ・tier2斧を制作しても、通常の木はtier1斧で切る 　良い斧には硬木を切る機能しかありません。どの斧を使っても木を切るのに必要なヒット数は一緒です 　これはそういうゲームです ・丸太は無限に集める 　自分できこっていたら丸太集めシミュレータになるため、住人に集めさせましょう 　本当に無限に使います。ていうかほとんどの植物無限に使います ・防衛体制が整うまでは、住人の「その場を守る」のチェックを外す 　チェックしたままだと序盤エリアですら無駄死にします 　このゲームの戦闘は数こそパワーですが、数人程度の住人では意味がありません 　それを上回る数の山賊が無限にリスポンし巡回してるのでただただ疲弊し、いずれ死亡します ・1個目の村を解放した時に徒労感が達成感を上回っていた場合、残りの村も同じようなものなのでゲームクリアです 　誇張抜きでどの村でもお使い＋アイテム提出＋山賊討伐をこなし、村長に貢物をあげ、村に建築をした後、代わり映えのしない盗賊達を駆除するだけです

ai generated slop in the intro and npcs. hire voice actors and artists or dont have npcs be voiced at all

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This game is literally my dream game come to life. It is a terrific fusion of both city builder and RPG, I find the fast travel system to be absolutely ingenious, and I like how to combat is similar to mount and blade. All that aside: Get rid of the AI. I can not under any good conscious recommend this game otherwise. If any developers are seeing this, I understand that professional voice acting will be coming in the future, however the game is perfectly playable without AI voices that both are morally bankrupt, and also terrible quality wise. Just get rid of the AI. It is not that hard. You even have an option to turn it off, just make it turned off by default, and remove the ability to turn it on at all. A perfect solution. Get rid of the AI.