![]() ![]() Instead, I found myself continually being frustrated by how limiting the survival aspects of the game were.Įven playing on the “Story” mode, where survival aspects are toned down, the game was still nagging me, making sure Kara remains satiated. I was so keen to jump into this world, go sailing, and explore what these mysterious islands had to offer. And that’s really what Windbound is.īut the biggest problem here is that Windbound doesn’t feel like an open-world adventure despite how inviting it was. The cynical Zelda fan in me finds it hard to not compare this whole experience to The Wind Waker, albeit with Breath of the Wild “survival” sensibilities. The big twist here is that you’re on a series of islands, so a lot of the travelling you’ll be doing is by boat, which you also build up. With each new area, you enter having new components that can then be used to build up your equipment and weapons to improve yourself. The general gameplay loop is much like you’d expect too. ![]() It retains all the hallmarks of this type of game that you’d expect – lots of collected materials, heaps of gear to create, and a hunger system that is continually on your shoulder. Windbound is, at its core, a crafting-survival game. That is, the story takes a back seat to the action and really doesn’t serve as a motivating backdrop to the pillaging and crafting. Trying to riff off the minimalistic approach of Breath of the Wild while doubling down on all the aspects of that game you probably didn’t like. I say that because Windbound attempts to “own the intersection” between survival-crafting games and open-world adventure ones, but it ultimately feels like more of the former rather than the latter. However, it does feel like a simplistic way to provide context to what is essentially a very lovely looking crafting sandbox. It’s a very “show don’t tell” style of storytelling very much drawing inspirations from games like Breath of the Wild and Shadow of the Colossus. ![]() With nothing following the tumultuous event, Kara must use raw materials to build herself a new boat and further explore the islands and their mysterious first inhabitants. Windbound sees you take the role of Kara, a young woman left stranded on a group of islands following a vicious storm. ![]()
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