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• ◼️ In The Falconeer But it's not an arcade game. It's not action all of the time. That's because a huge part of the game is flying around an open map, running various missions for various settlements dotted around a mostly sea-covered world. In each chapter, you'll call a different settlement home, and there will be a new main story to follow. But you can also take on contracts, on the side, to earn money. There are bounties, mail deliveries, base defenses - anything you might need a handy falconeer for. And you can accept contracts from your home settlement or abroad.
• ◼️ Foremost, Swooping across a crowded combat zone feels effortless, thanks to the excellent responsive controls. Making a flight-combat game that feels this smooth on a standard controller is an achievement all its own.

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• ◼️ It’s a good thing when art forces its audience to sit and think about the bad things they’ve done.

Overall

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Original Review

• An open world that looks good and does have interesting elements to explore.
• The combat and flying seems to have potential that I never got to and could be the aerial combat that someone might love.
• “realism” in physics and waves for example do well to show the potential and the level of detail the game has.
• It's got its own style that's sorta janky but in the same breathe does feel endearing.
• Some reasonable options to help refine the gameplay.
• Great performance
• Photo mode is a big plus.

• Absolutely no direction, not even subtle direction, on what to do and assumes that you know what to do next. No guiding quests at the start to give you an idea of what to do either.
• Buggy. A quest glitched out on me to the point where it made me question if the controls I was doing was wrong, and it made me question everything about the game going forward.
• Design hasn't been refined to really take advantage of the player and what they MAY do, causing repeated attempts and harsh lessons that a player really won't want to learn.
• Frustration through the roof. Select the wrong mission and you'll be put into areas that will absolutely annihilate you, and sometimes you can get hit with half your health with no fault of your own. Goes away with stat boosts but man, it's a tall hill to climb.
• Repetition of having to do story quest elements repeatedly will take their toll when you fail at one part, then have to do parts that don't really have a failure state, but take up time none the less.
• Confusing UI markers at times that can really make you wonder what the games trying to tell you, and in-game menus for quests and character selection aren't intuitive at all.