Dray2k: I seriously want to like this game, but I don't like that you're not able to climb stuff like hills and trees. This game does seem to be vastly inspired by BOTW, yet rejecting most of its ideas, becoming more like a Twilight Princess sort of game, yet this game doesn't seem to be wholly inspired by Twilight Princess. I don't want to imply that Pine seems to be a bad game or anything, I just don't get that the devs are trying to archive by leaving such features out.
For instance, BOTW is so good because climbing stuff, which is a good way to let the player interact with the landscapes, was so integral regarding the core experience. Also note that newer Zelda games are very atmospheric, and the climbing feature, which is one of the most important ones, helped to convey that the world the player finds themselves in lives and breaths. Besides that, it sure helps in making the player believe the world around is full of wonder, giving the player even more incentives to explore it.
I really would've like if the dev team could've put some resources/some extra time and develop a way to enable the player to climb stuff and make it worthwhile gameplay wise, this game is inspired of BOTW after all and its fairly easy to look for inspiration, like they did with any other Zelda-like idea they put into the game judging from the gameplay. Making the player be able to only climb certain things where you can find hidden chests/goodies. At any case, theres always endless possibilities by implementing such a feature.
But perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps you can really climb hills or mountains, but I have yet to see videos about regarding such a feature.
On the plus side, this games artstyle is really unique and the rest of the games Zelda-like sentiments seem to be really on-the-nose here, the developers put great care in making a good homage. And a lot of people do like Zelda, so I'm sure that a lot of people will probably really enjoy this game as well. At any case, I wish the dev team good luck with this game and on further endeavors as well. Wishlisted for now.
Is there key rebinding offered for both K&M/Controller? I'm ready to plunk down $22 for this...
