The Serpent Rogue

“There seem to be a good number of ideas in this game that could have made it a nice little gem, especially with the overall aesthetic, but it becomes tedious trying to piece everything together.”

“[A number of gameplay elements are not discussed in detail causing confusion about certain aspects of the game, some graphics look rough, mechanics can be clunky, especially during combat, random characters and settings make the world feel unfinished.]”

“TL;DR AI is terrible, weight limit is annoying, gathering is slow and tedious, great concept and aesthetic with poor execution.”

“The game does not respect your time, miscommunicates its mechanics and once you have a sizable army, your allied NPCs will just go straight into traps and damage-dealing thorns like there is no tomorrow, so bye bye 30 minutes of farming.”

“You can't adjust the camera, combat is terribly clunky, you spend ages farming in a few renewable areas in order to open chests to get rarer items to be strong enough to beat boring checkpoint bosses, the stamina bar is small, you have to hold shift to run, if you have any stamina because the food needed to replenish your stamina is mostly absent.”

“However before you get into it please note that crafting system and inventory system are big hurdles here and since it's main core element of the game you'll spend a lot of time doing that, but devs made sure to make it as tedious as they possibly could and sometimes crafting a simple thing like a healing potion even if you have ingredients stored at your base could take quite a minute or two because of how you have to have every ingredient on you, you have to be at a station and user interface is painfully unorganised; you can't skip to the end of list of ingredients by going one time up when at top but you have to click your way down through all the recipes and ingredients one by one.”

“The quests are so inconvenient and cryptic that even with walkthroughs and finding out that there was no way I would ever find it on my own, I still had trouble accomplishing the requirements to progress.”

“The game bombards you with 5 random boring quests at the first place you get into and absolutely no care is put into tailoring the player slowly to each of the game's mechanics; instead, it gives you all of them at once and tells you to go do them. Why?”

“A final issue is that I’ve heard that this game can be rather short, and while there’s a lot to explore, the main story is only a handful of hours.”

“To add to the waiting around for stuff, you also have to wait for the boat to arrive to hire NPCs, the music to fill the woods to hire monsters, corpses to disappear on their own until you can unlock the undertaker, a few resources that only spawn outside of the explorable maps, one of which I only had respawn twice in my nearly ten hours of play so far.”

“- Soundtrack is something you could never forget, it's very well composed”

“At first I didn't like the graphics, but after an hour or so the music and the lore, the atmosphere really grew on me.”

“What seems like a game with great potential that I really wanted to check out is an untested, buggy nightmare where I was unable to ever progress past the third zone due to constant game hang-ups, freezes, or crashes.”

“Buggy, and crashes.”

“It's buggy as hell.”

“Incredibly bad code. This runs at 26 fps at 1080p on an RX 580. What a joke. Doom Eternal runs in Ultra Nightmare at 120 fps. You did really bad with the optimization. You might wanna fix that lol.”