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<\/a><\/p>\n(There’s too many pirates in my pirate game!)<\/address>\n<\/p>\n
It started out well enough; you play as a Prince\/Princess embarking on their inaugural voyage as captain of their own ship, only for a coup to take place in their absence and for the betrayers to blame you, the player character. Bafflingly, everyone seems to swallow this lie, I mean it\u2019s not like when a royal takes command of a ship that the whole community comes out to witness it. And it\u2019s well established that they have time travel powers and are totally able to leave on a ship, sneak back on a ship to kill a king, sneak off again to cover their tracks and to then return a 2nd<\/em><\/strong> time to pretend nothing happened. But I put it out of my mind; I just put the lazy opening down to wanting to get us straight into the piratey action ASAP. \u00a0 (How wrong I was!)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first few missions as a pirate are painfully slow, sailing from port to port learning the rules of being a pirate\u2026. the rules<\/em><\/strong> of being a pirate<\/em><\/strong>. Now I know what you\u2019re thinking, \u201cGerard, they have to take the time to explain the mechanics of the game, and you\u2019re right, they do. But this was not the way to do it, if the devs wanted to take the time to explain the rules and mechanics of the game, then they should have had you remain a law-abiding sailor for longer. That way, we learn to play the game and when we are eventually betrayed it strengthens the narrative that playing by the rules only gets you killed and the only true course of action is to do what you please, pirate style. Once you finally escape the slow opening \u201cKing of Seas\u201d does pick up, for about an hour, until you realise that all the missions are merely a slight variation on the same handful of missions. Deliver this, collect that, destroy these many things and if you\u2019re into that kind of gameplay then Godspeed, but I needed something on in the background just to get through enough of the game to be able to write this review. <\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say this game is without merit, the gameplay can be entertaining (in a repetitive sort of way) and the ship combat is kind of fun, but after a while it just became a slog. Oh sure, one or two enemy ships would have different weapons which livened things up, but all too often the game resorted giving enemy ships a stupidly high defence to increase difficulty. I will admit that the art style and the aesthetic of the Pirate world are beautiful; the hand drawn art style of the characters is simply remarkable. Each of the characters looks distinct and even the ones that have similar models are unique in some way, it\u2019s just a pity that they\u2019re boring as fuck to engage with.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n(“Yes, please explain to me..a sailor..how a map works!”)<\/address>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n