Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - Remastered

Ich habe dieses Siel für meine Tochter gekauft und sie hat damit wirklich viel Spaß. Vor allem das Winter add on gefällt ihr sehr.

mir gefällt dieses spiel seeeeeeeeeeeeeeehr gut

Grundsätzlich ein schönes Spiel aber ich würde gern lieber selber rumlaufen und dinge finden anstatt immer auf einer "Zentrale" zu landen. Grafik ist toll!

Mi dispiace dirlo ma questo titolo per me è stata una grandissima delusione... Senza sborsare più soldi ci si trova a doversi accontentare di un gameplay scialbo, ripetitivo e breve. Neanche il platino si può puntare poiché gran parte degli obiettivi sono dipendenti delle espansioni. Non è poi possibile salvare le partite, a volte il cavallo si incanta o resta bloccato in ostacoli inesistenti facendoti perdere missioni e riavviare. Ottimizzato male, scatta e crasha in grafica media su un pc che ha i requisiti per reggerlo tranquillamente in ultra. Unici pregi? E' visivamente piacevole, rilassante se si ha come unica pretesa quella di cavalcare un cavallo ed esplorare una mappa media alla ricerca di collezionabili. Personalmente: lo sconsiglio.

Returned the game because it kept crashing. Really disappointing because the visuals are great.

一直加載，煩死了

Remastered version is really pretty! Beautiful environment for riding with nice music, though the game itself does feel a little thin and more like a series of mini-games, which makes the whole experience flow a bit less than I’d like. Controls felt a little clunky at first, though with time and practice it’s okay.

I never thought I'd compare a horse game to Assassin's Creed, but if you remember the original game from Ubisoft, you'd know it was a fleshed out world full of possibilities and places to explore, but when it came to plot and actual progression, they'd sort of forgotten about that, and gave us a bunch of mini games (like sitting on a bench); some of these missions made the most of the game, others... well, most, did not. And so comes Windstorm in a very similar state. The world is quite wonderful to explore, and if you're the type to just enjoy riding a horse aimlessly, you'd probably find a lot to like here. But when it comes to story, and missions, the game falls flat. What there is of the story (and I understand its based on a movie, but there doesn't seem to be much plot at all here) is presented in a series of quick dialogues like a visual novel, and they're almost always a prelude to get you to do some work. The game is at its best in the open world mode, but after 6 hours and leveling up the horse, Windstorm, I realised the game had no more to offer me beyond more terrible missions, and collectables. I'd recommend it (especially heavily discounted) for a few hour of trotting about a serene country side, and I may come back to it, but I'll put my pros and cons here: + Gorgeous world, quite lovely to just ride about in. + Despite some stilted dialogue, the characters are acted wonderfully, and I found myself growing attached + Maintaining Windstorm's health through a series of mini games are done well, and never drag on long enough to be more than a quick distraction. + Music is well done with some lovely motifs. + The best missions are the photo missions that require you go out in to the world and take a picture of something. The nice thing is there are no quest markers or any indication where to go other than the mission brief, and no prompt whent to take the picture until you're within 100m of the target. It's quite a neat way to encourage you to explore. - LOADING. The bulk of this game's progression is, despite being advertised as Open World, done through a menu system. There you can select the kind of missions you'd want to do. All fine except that every option brings up a rather long loading screen. Different machines will load at different speeds, but I expected better on a Steam Deck. I realised the game just loads the WHOLE world each time. And when you fail a mission? Well, back to the menu screen (LOADING) and then click try again (LOADING). It demonstrated a lack of experience in the game engine that the developers can't just reset the script in the world, and have to instead reload a kind of world state. - Jumping can be pretty important for a horse game featuring jumps. Unfortunately nobody bothered to test what happens if you're too late for a jump. Basically you just stand there in front of the jump, unable to turn, unable to move forward or backaward, and if you hit the correct random sequence of buttons, Mika and her Horse propel themselves over the jump from a stand. Very frustrating when you have a countdown. - Sprinting requires holding down the A button, which is unfortunatey because the camera is terrible. If it automatically turned with you that would be something but it does not. If on Steam Deck I recommend mapping A to the R4 and L4 paddle buttons at the back, as they'll free up your thumb. - Very repetitive missions, with no rewards beyond leveling up the horse and the occasional photo you'll never look at again. - Catching escaped animals is both hillarious and frustrating. Every animal, despite not being the highly trained lightning-quick horse you ride, zooms about the countryside as though on wheels. Cattle secretly harbour v8 engines, other horses don't so much as jump obstacles as appear higher in the air for a moment (when they aren't just no-clipping). Oh, and don't miss a jump, it's an instant fail. - Not a great performer. I managed to get it running between 35-40 on Steam Deck and still look good, but there didn't seem to be a whole lot going on to justify the sacrifice.

Man forstår ikke hva man skal gjøre.

Ein schönes Spiel, wenn man nicht zu hohe Erwartungen hat. Mir hat das Spiel sehr gefallen. Ich habe es in einer Woche komplett inklusive DLC durchgespielt. Am besten hat mir die wunderschöne Landschaft gefallen. Mit der Optik/Grafik kann das Spiel auf jeden Fall punkten. Da lohnt sich die Remastered-Version wirklich. Der Fokus liegt bei diesem Spiel auf dem Ausreiten. Springreiten ist ein zweiter Faktor. Gespräche mit NPCs finden nur in 2D und hauptsächlich auf dem Hof statt. Man merkt auf jeden Fall, dass das ursprüngliche Spiel schon fast 10 Jahre alt ist. Die Geschichte ist nicht allzu tiefgründig und die Quests wiederholen sich auch teilweise in ihrer Art. Etwas nervig waren die unzähligen Quests, in denen ständig dieselbe Kuh eingefangen werden musste. Es hilft sicherlich, wenn man das Ostwind-Franchise kennt und mag. Es ist kein Spiel, was man ewig spielen wird. Nichtsdestotrotz finde ich es deutlich besser als den Nachfolger "Aris Ankunft". Nachdem man bei Aris Ankunft die Hauptgeschichte fertig gespielt hat, ist das nur noch langatmige Beschäftigungstherapie. Das Gefühl hatte ich hier nicht. Im Gegenteil, mir hat es Spaß gemacht die versteckten Fundobjekte zu suchen und zu sammeln und das Spiel zu 100% fertig zu spielen. Also ja, ich empfehle das Spiel weiter, aber es ist nicht das allerbeste Pferdespiel, was es gibt.