Recommend: Yes, if you're interested in a strong story with challenging boss fights and a few tough puzzles and like reading a lot of text this game is for you. The game also features a mini rogue-like, turn-based adventure game called Earth Born, available to playthrough out the story that has a few plot/story bits added into the collectible Pixballs you can also collect, which requires a bit of grinding but felt worth it for the 100% Achievements. The characters and story are well written, there are so many characters, names and faces from the artist that travels all over New Dam City, to the robot cosplayer in Ester City, so many fun and bright characters with great dialogue. The music is fantastic, even with tracks that often repeat the foreboding nature of some tracks and by the time you finish the nostalgia of others really compounds the emotion of the story with the players. The art style and music are both some of the best from the publisher Chucklefish, pixel art that is so expressive, colourful and fluid in it's animation it's no wonder the game needed to be delayed. Eastward the game has you in control of John and Sam, an adoptive father, combat master and talented cook, living in Potcrock Isle a small bastion of humanity living underground away from the hell above. The plot is definitely something a lot of people get confused about and I guess it's not really meant to be the focus, I think plot analysis has taken over story analysis in the wider world, which is fine, a good plot makes media interesting, but it's not the be all and end all. I haven't spent much time analysing the story but to me, Eastward is a game about losing your reason for life, but still finding something new. 100% PCI review games with all games starting at 5/10 (Average) and then deduct/add for negatives and positives: Overall: Eastward was probably my top game of the year in 2021, beating out Inscryption and Loop Hero.
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