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Hi, I’m Lachlan and today i’ll be reviewing Don’t Starve a popular survival game where pretty much everything in it tries to kill you in some way or another, whether it’s from a swarm of bees, rotten food, starvation, wild packs of hell hounds, frogs or the dark creatures that haunt you at night. You are spawned into the dangerous realm by some strange old gentleman, you start off as Wilson the scientist in a randomly generated demonic world.
When it comes to figuring out how to stay alive, there's little room for mistakes here. The lack of any tutorial means that every resource, creature, and curiosity you encounter poses the same question; can I use this to my advantage or will messing with it somehow result in death? Considering that many vital resources can be dangerous to retrieve or have an ill effect if used in an un-correct manner, each choice you make at any given moment has the potential to usher in your own doom.
This trial-and-error nature is a real pressure cooker at moments, since even a …show more content…
Whether you scavenge berries and vegetables or kill and cook wildlife to consume, keeping a supply of edibles on hand staves off hunger that can sap your meager health if left unchecked. A steady day-night cycle weaves several more layers of complexity into the mix. You can freely explore during the daytime, but nightfall ushers in a new threat: get caught in the dark for more than a few seconds without a light source, and the darkness itself consumes you. Spending too much time out in the dark, even by torchlight, saps your mental health as well. Activities like eating flowers, resting, and tinkering away restore your sanity. Let it deplete too far, however, and the increasingly hallucinatory visual effects that warp the gameworld onscreen spawn imaginary nightmare creatures that attack. Really, you never feel truly safe. Ever. That's not a bad thing
Hi, I’m Lachlan and today i’ll be reviewing Don’t Starve a popular survival game where pretty much everything in it tries to kill you in some way or another, whether it’s from a swarm of bees, rotten food, starvation, wild packs of hell hounds, frogs or the dark creatures that haunt you at night. You are spawned into the dangerous realm by some strange old gentleman, you start off as Wilson the scientist in a randomly generated demonic world.
When it comes to figuring out how to stay alive, there's little room for mistakes here. The lack of any tutorial means that every resource, creature, and curiosity you encounter poses the same question; can I use this to my advantage or will messing with it somehow result in death? Considering that many vital resources can be dangerous to retrieve or have an ill effect if used in an un-correct manner, each choice you make at any given moment has the potential to usher in your own doom.
This trial-and-error nature is a real pressure cooker at moments, since even a …show more content…
Whether you scavenge berries and vegetables or kill and cook wildlife to consume, keeping a supply of edibles on hand staves off hunger that can sap your meager health if left unchecked. A steady day-night cycle weaves several more layers of complexity into the mix. You can freely explore during the daytime, but nightfall ushers in a new threat: get caught in the dark for more than a few seconds without a light source, and the darkness itself consumes you. Spending too much time out in the dark, even by torchlight, saps your mental health as well. Activities like eating flowers, resting, and tinkering away restore your sanity. Let it deplete too far, however, and the increasingly hallucinatory visual effects that warp the gameworld onscreen spawn imaginary nightmare creatures that attack. Really, you never feel truly safe. Ever. That's not a bad thing