Wildaria

This is my brutally honest review. I never wrote one before as I never cared enough, but this game has a LOT of potential. For starters, the beginning parts were pretty fun. Learning the bubble lasso tech. Exploring the different biomes. Talking with every NPC knowing they all have unique and important dialogue. I would give Early-game 3.5/5. The reason why, is because when you use up all your lasso, and didn't complete certain quests, you had no direction pointing you to where you could find or buy more lasso. When you explore more, you will eventually find them in chests, or the NPC shops. It was a skill issue on my end, but I did have to run around for about 30 minutes before I could find another one. The generator is probably the hardest and buggiest portion. I love the different biomes, plants, and others generated via random. This did lead to a few issues where trees would block staircases, animals being jailed and locked away from moving, and boss rooms being unreachable. Overall I will still give the generation a solid 3/5. Despite these bugs, it generated structures well, the puzzles were very intuitive and fun, the world was amazing to run through. One more thing I do want to bring up, the animals and their AI/paths. Overall they are equally annoying as they are fun to catch, but there were a few issues I ran into. Since the only thing between catching them is the bubble lasso, it was really easy to run to a very far location (desert) and walk up to a level 98 and catch it as a level 12. Obviously their level caps at your level, but not really? Their stats are immensely beefed up compared to the lower level animals. As for catching them, I noticed there is a few times where when I go for the catch ( inside the bubble to move around more efficiently) every now and then, they would randomly drain both my current animal and my health. Maybe it was a feature after a certain time of lasso they would get irritable and attack you, but for now I did notice that they would drain health much faster than if they were to charge head on. The desert boss, I threw a lasso at the tail because of reasons, and it takes your lasso, does the run around but obviously you cannot catch it, so it consumes it and bugs the game. He runs off map, he does no damage, you do no damage, your tamed animal loses aggro. But everything else, the leveling, skill tree, inventory, character creation, are all extremely enjoyable and very well made. This section will get a 4/5. The world you immerse yourself in when playing is absolutely breathtaking and this is a W. Next up is questing, I personally find these quests to be a good source of money and exp. Sometimes you get useful foods or items from them too, overall it is great. The only thing, if you fast travel from a level 80 or 50 zone to the beginner zone, the NPC refreshes and so do the animals near your teleportation site so the quest remains unfinishable AND the rerolled NPCs and animals are level 50-80 in the starter zone. Questing for this, is for sure a 4.5/5 despite these bugs. From someone who religiously plays, Terraria and Stardew (phone), this game is definitely in my top 3. It has SO MUCH potential, this game, the mechanics, features, creativity, has blown me away for an early release. Personally I would give this a 9/10 stars for early release. It has amazing potential, amazing current mechanics, world building, and art. I cant wait to play this as my top game on my account!