Interesting stuff to do is the greatest reward.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be keeping at it for sure!

It's definitely a cool idea, and they came through pretty well on executing it!

Happy exploring!

Well, you're here now! Glad you're enjoying, plenty more to come.

That's not an issue with the game. This is talking about how the game mechanics could be expanded on in a follow-up.

Thanks, and welcome aboard!

No problem! Have fun out there!

Much appreciated! I'll be sure to!

That's cool as heck! Wish I'd come across them all those years ago.

Thanks! I think it's perfectly playable now, but you know how to spend your money best, I'm sure.

I haven't gotten to it, but there is an achievement for leaving the island, so I think there is an ending.

There is an end, the main quest is painting the places your mother loved. If you've done that you can take a boat off the island. Cool is you end up in your own studio back home with all your paintings adorning the walls.

Yes there's an ending and it's pretty good, I thought.

Happy painting!

I would definitely appreciate that. A sort of sandbox mode with infinite canvases where I can just walk around painting as much as I want. It'd hold me for an hour or two, probably.

@@FirstFive Agreed. Now, as to the time it'd hold me, well that'd be hours until I had to go to sleep. I just hope this game does well enough to get a physical release. Reminds me of the time I went on a trip to the Navajo reservation and took pictures as often as I could. Oh, and you earned a new subscriber.

Much appreciated!

@@FirstFive You're welcome. Sorry for the delayed response. Life hasn't been exactly 'kind', per say.

Hm. Well, if it's an isolated issue or it got fixed later, then all the better!

Everyone has their financial situation to consider. I think it's worth it, especially if you like exploration-based games, but hey, I'm not everyone. That's the point of reviews, though, yeah?

It's worth more than $10 for sure. If you're not willing to pay more than $10 then it can't look that cool to you anyway because you don't talk about how great something is while also thinking that it doesn't have much worth.

@@FirstFive I don't think this is about their financial situation. They're talking about how much they think the game is worth to them which is a different argument.

Normally I move on and just let random youtube comment criticism lie, but you kind of illustrated the exact reason why this channel exists with your own statement. That's the whole point: what _does_ five hours of The Witcher 3, Pillars of Eternity, or Path of Exile get you? Nothing. An introduction zone. So if you only have five hours to play a game, then you're not going to get anything out of them. That doesn't make them bad games, in fact I played and enjoyed all three back when I actually used to have free time, but it makes them a bad fit _for people who don't have 100 hours to invest into them._ That's why you don't see me reviewing something like Red Dead Redemption 2 or AC: Odyssey, because those games are obvious bad fits for this channel, while Eastshade, a comparatively much shorter open world game, fits great. Your definition of "decent length" is wildly different from my own. I think a game like Gris or Dusk that takes like three hours to finish is a perfectly decent length. For a lot of people, including myself, it takes a lot just to find more than five hours to put into a game, which means for those people, five hours may be all they ever see. Those are the people I make these videos for, and for that audience, finding short games that you can get a reasonable amount of entertainment out of - even, perhaps, a fully formed narrative with a beginning, middle, and ending - in a few hours is important, and there are plenty of games to explore that address that need. And if you only enjoy lifestyle games that you can play every day for a year or massive RPGs that take hundreds of hours to finish, that's your prerogative, but you're not going to get much value out of my channel. It doesn't make either of us wrong, just different. The industry is large enough that these two views can both exist simultaneously depending on what an individual person needs out of a game. I'm sorry if you're not a part of my target audience, but there's value in what I do, even if you personally don't see it.

@@FirstFive baah I was just overly agressive. Never meant that What you do has no meaning. I just thought that What you do doesn't apply to complex games but you addressed that with your post. Thanks for answering.☺

Yeah, I definitely agree that there are some games that it would be silly for me to review, and I unfortunately don't have precognition, so I sometimes stumble into games that are longer than I bargained for, but I try to keep to stuff that you could reasonably complete in a short amount of time. Cheers!

too fast

I like to understand words, thanks.