Aside from the stingy guide, I pointed out, there were a few bugs that I encountered as well. While Goliath, a galactic Pirate, is accompanied by a thrilling upbeat music and this only happens for the duration of their visit.īut with good news, comes the bad ones. So for example, when M ûn visits, she is accompanied by a hippy kind of music. What I like about them visiting is that the background music changes on whoever is your visitor. When they visit, you will get a small prompt on your screen and you will have to ‘help’ them land and if you fail to do this – the merchant will fly off, missing your chance to get profits or complete missions. These missions will also help unlock recipes that not only give Arco more health and hunger points but can also be sold at a pretty hefty price to specific merchants. They will offer missions, trading products since they do buy and sell resources and unlock stronger structures to help in your daily living. Other characters will start to land on your tiny planet. Later, this character will help you explore other planets exposing you to more agricultural resources, monster drops, and missions. She happens to discover Deiland since she was investigating anomalies in that area. The first character you will meet in Deiland is called M ûn, who is not only an explorer but also an Interstellar Patrol Officer. Examples are more stamina to last longer, improve intelligence to wield more powerful attacks or more physical defense. You need to fill up the experience bar and go to sleep and once you do you, will get to choose what skill to give to your character. The second blue bar is Arco’s stamina, this will dictate how many tasks he can do, and these actions generate star points which is your experience points that fill the final white bar. You will have to defeat monsters which on their deathbed gives you resources that will let you create other important resources or become a key ingredient on another dish. Yup! It’s not all quiet in the land of Deiland. Not only does it fill the hunger bar but it fills your health bar as well. The moment this hunger bar goes way down, it starts hurting you – deducing it further. Resources such as wood and stone help you create structures to get other resources and food you collect helps satiate your hunger bar. So you start collecting essentials such as vegetables and fruits to plant on your limited fertilized soil. Patience and perseverance is really a must at this initial point since you really start off without any money on you. When I mention boredom this actually comes at a later time because just like Harvest Moon you don’t really start with a lot of resources. I am not sure if that was one of the objectives of Chibig, which is to be fully immersed in the gameplay, but I don’t think that works especially when boredom strikes. It took a few tries and determination to understand what is truly happening and it kind of gave me an impression that I would need to discover stuff on my own to really see the potential of this game. I thought it was just a bug and continued to somehow reset the action by going back and forth thinking that it would fix it or show me the action that I needed. Such an annoying moment happened when I wanted to harvest this field of carrots but since I was holding an axe at that time, it only showed me the Destroy action. But it never taught me that whatever tool you are holding at that time will affect the action available in that given item.
It might teach you how to do a certain type of task like you use a hammer to collect rocks, axe to collect wood from trees or use a hoe to sow seeds. Initially, you start off with really limited resources and tutorials aren’t really that frequent in this game. Arco upon waking up in Deiland doesn’t really remember who he is or where he came from but that didn’t bother him nor stopped him from discovering new planets, new characters and filling the planet with life! You will eventually get to discover the background story upon progressing through the game. You will be playing the youngest prince of them all named Arco who lives in the tiniest minor planet, Deiland. The story goes that a long time ago when the universe was young, little princes were sent to minor planets to discover the power of Crystals kept within the planet’s interior.
This review is based on a review code provided by Chibig Studios.ĭeiland is an adventure role-playing game combined with a sandbox mechanic. This antiquated game would not even be available to us if folks in Kickstarter didn’t believe in the story. Deiland was inspired and created Chibig Studios, a small group of people who have worked hard for a year to develop the fundamentals of the game.