Reviews for Castaway

[zindelo]

Good concept, poor execution.

This game has some great potential, it really does.
The graphics are great, the dialog was good and the fighting system was simple and easy to pick up.

the difficulty is ridiculous. It isn't that the enemies are specifically too hard, or it takes finesse to play. You start off with a stick. By the time I got to the first town I had maybe 7g. The next weapon I could buy is 200g... oh my.
I start the first quest, kill all the beetles I need to on the same screen. Then kill a ton more, I'm about halfway to level 3 and its taking FOREVER to level up. So I figure I'm done in this area.
Go to the next screen, oh, more beetles. I guess I was supposed to kill these for the quest too, meh I killed tons already.
Next screen, this isn't the exit yet? Oh snakes, cool. fight fight, ouch these hurt, Oh crap another snake is coming, oh and he brought two friends. DEAD

Well, lets just... oh I have to go back to where I last saved. Where I had 7g and a stick. Well I won't get caught off guard this time, let me buy some healing... oh they cost 15g and I only have 7g. Guess those comments were right, I really DO have to grind alot. Okay, lets get them beetles!

Grinding a ton of time later I realize that without healing items I have to hit stuff with a stick until I am almost dead. Then wait forever until I regenerate enough hp to fight some more. Wow... I am not spending an hour on this first quest. Maybe I can run past the snakes... nope dead again.

If you enjoy dying over and over, killing things over and over and waiting around... find another game with a long load time. It will be more enjoyable.

[skelemen]

boooring

kinda boring

[tehme83]

not that good

i wasnt that good. its alright for a free rpg, but its not great.

[ZeoX69]

disappointing

Moving the character is annoying. Slow, and can't use the mouse for it. But use it to attack. :/
My pet got stuck. Couldn't see him. Could still attack. Getting off the map fixes it.

Why I rated it so low: I had a quest to kill some snakes. I killed one. Killed the second, but the poison killed me. Why are they so much more difficult, and fuck you for not having auto save.

Usually I'd stop playing a game right after returning to the start because the game is shit - but I like RPGs and got nothing else to do. So i'll play this game through and deal with all the other problems that the game has promised me.

[sqykly]

Argh! Why?!?

You get two stars for presentation, since the game was pretty. The images you're using over and over are nice.

However, the game's design and implementation are repugnant. MMOs are trendy for the same reasons as social networking, but the idea that MMO concepts translate into a fun single player game is perverse. Here's what I mean by "MMO concepts":

There's a designated place to get your quests. The quests themselves are flimsy pretenses for grinding and grinding-related errands. If you don't go out and grind some more, you'll never have enough gold or exp to get through the game. There is no plot. There are no characters. There are no meaningful choices to be made. It's not a real action game nor a real RPG as it lacks all of the features that make either genre interesting and entertaining. I can't think of any reason that anyone would enjoy playing this unless they've spent so much time with MMO"RPG"s that they really think this abomination is what an RPG is supposed to be.

Don't make a sequel. Please.