![]() Which might as well kick off my first criticism: it's localized about as well as an American tourist in the Arctic Circle. Besides that, the main hint that gave it away was that the fucking thing was in Chinese by default, and I had to go bushwhacking through the menus, trying to educated guess my way to the language option. Sailing Era is a Chinese game, which come across not dissimilarly to Japanese games, except the characters have this hint of desperate panic in their eyes 'cos they're afraid of being disappeared by the government. So I played a bit of Sailing Era last week, an open-ended RPG management thing set in the Age of Sail that features boats about as prominently as any game could, and which managed to impress me right off the bat by having the ingenious foresight to come out in the middle of January, when there's bugger-all else worth talking about. ![]() I'd hate to think any aspect of my behavior had become in any way reliable if my wife found out, she'd make me start unloading the dishwasher again. Clearly, we have stumbled upon the secret cheat code that will ensure a positive review from Yahtzee Croshaw!" Well, I had to get to the bottom of this. "And look at all the other clues! He likes Horatio Hornblower books, he owns a bath, he's physically dependent on water to continue living. has a couple of swords that could conceivably be repurposed as a mizzenmast. Think about it: Return of the Obra Dinn, Spiritfarer, Silent Hill 2 has that one bit where James Sunderland goes to a boating lake on "World's Most Attentive Husbands Get In Free" Day, Dark Souls. Why not use them as a sleep aid and dream strange dreams about giant golden penises?Ī few of the regular commenters that orbit my magnificence like a roomful of Comic-Con attendees around an unaccompanied attractive woman have noticed a curious pattern emerging in my list of favorite games, in that many of them in some way prominently feature a boat. ![]() Our four-hour Zero Punctuation compilations are now available on Spotify for your listening ears. ![]() Prologue: 4-Hour ZP Compilations on Spotify This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Sailing Era. ![]()
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