If you’re into the type of game that is so deep that you’ll need to play it forever to get the full enjoyment then you’ll love this. It’s possible that it wont’ matter how hard it is.
It’s certainly impressive, but why would anyone want to invest 40 hours simply to get the basics of a game, when there are so many deep experiences that can be picked up so easily? The fact of the matter is that no matter how fun and deep the game is, it doesn’t make the amount you have to do to get into it worth while. If you’ve been following the development with excitement or think that games should require more research to enjoy then this is for you. Then there might have been something to keep playing routing for through all the uphill slog.Īs it stands there is only a very specific niche of people that will be able to get a lot of enjoyment out of Kenshi. In a way it’s a shame that Kenshi hides so much of its world behind it’s impenetrable learning curve. There is a lot of desert and wasteland areas on the map, as well as a general feeling of desolation. The visual design goes a long way to help as well. After about 8 hours in the game with our 3 rd character we started to pick up bits and pieces of what made the game’s world interesting. There are no basic races in the game, meaning other than humans you’ll probably not have seen any of the races in the game in anything else before.Īt first it’s difficult to find any of the actual world building dialogue or story, as the game doesn’t give you any from the get-go no matter which start you choose. A lot of things are drawn from Samurai and Ninja history and mythology, although there is no magic involved.
There is almost no limit to what you can choose to pursue. Hell you can even become a thief and steal anything not glued down.
You can spend your time building a base, farming, mining, trading, killing.
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If you do manage to figure out how to play it properly then you’ll find an experience that literally no other game has ever managed to pull off.Īpart from that Kenshi is overflowing with choice. Of course that isn’t to say that it doesn’t have a lot of redeeming qualities as well. It’s obtuse to the point of frustration, and takes a special type of person to even begin to enjoy it. The game has 50 different bars, menus, shortcuts and buttons, which would be nigh-on impossible to map to a standard controller. Kenshi is a game that will almost certainly only ever be available on PC. Regardless of which one you pick you’re going to spend at least the first hour or so reading tutorial messages…fun. There are a couple of the scenarios that have the ‘default’ difficulty, presumably because these are the ones you’re suppose to start with. Each one of these scenarios starts you out in a different area with different equipment and each is rated with different difficulty settings. When you first boot the game you have a set of different starting scenarios to choose from. In this case the gameplay is actually a blend of the two, being a squad based game with controls like an RTS and characters like an RPG. Instead of being an RTS game with stated hero characters or an RPG where you have to control a bunch of troops. Kenshi is a game which actually earns the strategy-RPG genre. For many people that initial investment may just not be worth it. Due to Kenshi’s huge scale there is a lot of bulk to work through before you can enjoy the juicy, juicy insides. That being said complexity isn’t everything, and a high level of complexity makes it harder for new players to get started. The strategy RPG is so deep and complex, that it can take over 40 hours to simply understand how the game works. Kenshiis a game that has been in development for over a decade, and has both scale and detail to match.
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