Let’s tackle the biggest problem first: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IS NOT FUN. The closest the game ever gets to mixing things up is when you get to steer your poorly-controlled raft while traveling from one island to the next. Sometimes you’ll come across a dangerous wolf or boar who can absolutely wreck you if you’re not careful, but killing them is as easy as letting loose with an arrow or laying down a trap, at which point they become yet another item for you to hoard. You enter a new area, scrounge around for some random junk, open your menus to turn it into other stuff, use that stuff to replenish your various food/water/heat meters if need be, and finally go to another area to do the same thing all over again. I’m not trying to be cute and reductive for the sake of making a point here either, this is literally all you do. Instead I’ll merely focus on the gameplay: put simply, The Flame in the Flood is a game about picking up items and sorting them. I won’t say anything more than that about the premise as I wouldn’t want to spoil one of the only interesting things about this game for anyone who decides to take a chance on it. In The Flame in the Flood you play as Scout, one of the few survivors in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks to make it as far as she can down an expansive river with a mysterious dog alongside her.
Other survival-based games, such as Minecraft or Breath of the Wild, do this by offering a variety of things to do beyond merely existing. As a human being, I already have to maintain my nutrition, thirst, temperature, and sleep every day, so if you’re going to make me do it in a video game too there had better be something else to it. I’ll be honest here – the simple act of “surviving” in a video game does not excite me. Release Date: 12th of October, 2017 (EU & NA) Octo8:59 pm Published by Camjo-Z Leave your thoughts
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