KEEP MOVING

[h1] A Disappointing, Plodding Experience [/h1] [i] It's me and this soldier. I'm trying to get him across this mountain range via this cart I found. For the twelfth time, he falls out of the cart and is injured because my cart was slightly angled too far forward going downhill in this MOUNTAINOUS terrain. I could carry him, but then I'd have to stop every 30 seconds or so to replenish my stamina. So we plod on, until I finally collapse and fail. [/i] I really wanted to like this game. I like the aesthetic. I like the premise. I like the PS1 retreaux art style. But I absolutely dislike the execution. The almost hour worth of playtime I have is from two attempts, both of which ended differently, but both of which had me bored by the end. The good: As mentioned previously, the art style is lovely. And I like the basic set up of the story. The bad: Just about everything else. The gameplay is slow and plodding, there's way too much downtime between any events, and it just feels like a slog. The basic gameplay loop I saw during my time playing was that you grab some supplies, patch yourself and the solidier up, as well as feed both of you and give water, and then move to the next supply cache on the map. Once you get to the supply cache, you'll usually have some spooky voices play [spoiler] telling you to kill the soldier and leave them behind, and that you're the only one there [/spoiler] all while you gather supplies and restart the cycle. But it's so boring to get to each supply cache. The walk speed is slow. You have to rest every so often to recover your stamina to keep moving, and there's so many times where, if you use the cart, you'll have the soldier tumble off, leaving you to run back, grab them, and put them back on the cart. Little to nothing happened between these supply caches, and it was slow getting to the next one. The only exception to something interesting happened as I got close to one of the darkness zones on the map. Per your map, they seem to be rich with supplies, but when you get close [spoiler] some darkness entity chases you down draining your food, water, and madness stats while it's around you. [/spoiler] It didn't seem to me that there was any way to escape this, and it results in a game over. Again, I like the premise, but there's a lot that would have to be done to make it playable. TL;DR: Don't buy unless on a huge discount, and even then only if you're willing to deal with minutes of plodding gameplay between each 30 seconds of something happening.