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Len’s Island Free Download Unfitgirl Releasing into Early Access today, Len’s Island started life as a solo weekend project for creator Julian Ball. He later brought on Martin Tapia-Vergara to rebuild the game’s code; despite getting a bit more help with sound (Lars Erik Fjøsne) and some additional graphical/systems work (Ivan Luiz), Flow Studio is still at its core a two-person development team, which makes what they’ve accomplished in 4 years all the more impressive. Len’s Island is a game that attempts to offer a wide variety of engaging activities in a single package, and it looks like it’s going to succeed. You can happily spend most of your time carefully planning your dream estate — I didn’t mess with building too much, but it feels easy to use, and upgrading/editing your creations is accomplished with a robust construction system — or you can venture into the darkness beneath the island to fight monsters and discover hidden treasures. There’s also a handful of other islands, some of which contain NPCs you can interact and trade with (though quests and deeper NPC interactions are still in development). The first thing you’ll notice when you start a new game in Len’s Island is the simple beauty of the island itself. The art style is straightforward; it includes just enough detail to be interesting, and no more. Trees gently sway in the wind, butterflies lazily drift by, and water slowly laps at the edges of the shore. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

It’s a very peaceful setting, and when combined with the fact that there are no enemies above-ground, makes collecting resources a relaxing experience. The harvesting sounds and animations are well done: trees creak nicely as they fall over, stone deposits explode in a simple but pleasing manner, and hacking down bushes with a sword is silly but fun. Speaking of resources, Len’s Island does something a little differently with respawns compared to most crafting games I’ve played. Both trees and ore deposits reappear quite quickly, removing the need to head further and further afield for wood and stone. This is also the case in caves where the rarer resources, that you have to fight to access, spawn. This serves to make combat less of a necessity than it might otherwise be, and allows players who’d rather not swing their sword too much still access all the crafting materials they’d want. There’s also a neat mini-game with harvesting: while you can just hold down the button if you want, a little circle appears on your tool’s tip at the end of each swing: tapping the button when the circle appears increases both the speed and damage of your tool’s next swing, and sometimes nets you bonus resources as well. It really makes chopping wood a zen experience, where you can sort of zone out while getting into the rhythm of timing your clicks for maximum effectiveness.

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Since this timing mechanic is used with swords as well as picks and axes, practicing it will also help you out when you finally venture into the island’s caves, which hide resources and secrets aplenty. You’ll have to fight a few monsters if you want to collect the treasures the darkness holds, but the dangers of combat are easily mitigated by intensively farming — this fight club uses Skyrim rules, and stuffing your face is a legitimate way to get all of your HP back. Weapons each have a special move or two, and you’ve got an industry-standard dodge roll to work with. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it works. The combat goes hand in hand with the exploration, which is well-crafted and pretty dang addictive. The balance of enemies and quiet bits feels just right, and there’s a decent amount of environmental storytelling and little notes to discover. Venturing deeper into the cave system also rewards you with special items as well as a better understanding of the island’s history. Exploration is also sometimes gated by resources; you can repair bridges to open up shortcuts or new paths forward, which I found to be a great motivator to take a break from the darkness and go chop more trees. While it isn’t strictly necessary, you can choose to light up lanterns throughout the cave. It’s a neat feature, serving both to mark your progress and making it easier to see nearby loot. You can also spend coal to light braziers throughout the cave, which will heal you when you stand near them (and damage any enemies that get too close). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Heading back into the cave and following the trail of lanterns you’ve lit might not be the most efficient way to play, but it sure feels cool. I think that’s the real success of Len’s Island: all the systems just feel good. The of smoothness its controls and animations, the simple charm of its art, the fact that you don’t have to grind materials for 5 hours to build your next crafting table — it all serves to make Len’s Island a game that’s incredibly easy to sit down and play for 10 minutes or 10 hours. I’m usually a true min-maxer no matter the game I’m playing, but in Len’s Island, I was happy to grow some flowers not because I needed them to sell but because they looked nice next to my blueberry bushes. While some of the game’s features are very much a work in progress, the bones of a fantastic game are here, and there’s still plenty to do (and discover) even in its current state. Quite honestly, I can’t wait to finish this review and see what secrets still await me in the cave beneath my garden. Len’s Island started its life as a Kickstarter campaign made by Julian Ball. That campaign was so successful and popular that Ball would be put in the position to hire a small number of developers from around the world to bring his vision to life. Len’s Island’s first demo was released as part of Steam’s “Next Fest” game festival and immediately won the attention of millions of gamers around the world.

It’s a beautiful world

After you find the necessary iron and coal from the cave, which is not very hard, there is no more reason to go to the cave. Sure, maybe curiosity strikes and leads the player deeper into the cave, but with the punishing nature of death in Len’s Island, that seems unlikely. The game’s visuals and atmosphere are stunning. The beautiful green of the grass, littered with the occasional blue of a berry or red of a flower. The water of the seas and the streams, reflecting light and becoming more golden and beautiful later into the day cycle. The animations are all smooth and look great, the enemies and NPCs are well designed. Everything in this title is great to look at. Those graphics are used very well in the environment to communicate information to the player. The different colors in the grass signify food, a rare and important resource. The dirt path that led the player to the cave can also lead them to a broken bridge that can be fixed and lead the player to a nearby town of NPCs. In the caves, the different types of architecture can imply the presence of some secrets.. Speaking of the underworld, that is where the game’s beauty fades a bit. The caves are very mono-chromatic, which could be used as an effective thematic or story-telling device, but is not. The NPCs are black, the walls are gray, the marble structures are white. The caves are undeniably the most interesting areas in the game to be in, but they are so ugly to look at that it is not nearly as exciting as it should be. Test Drive Unlimited 2

A non-linear survival game, Len’s Island is an entertaining journey into the unknown. Giving players just enough information to get started, the game leaves the players alone to their own devices fairly early on. Armed with just an ax and an understanding of the controls, the player has to figure out the rest on their own. After chopping down some trees and breaking a few rocks, the player will find their way to the crafting menu, where they can begin working on building a shelter. Houses are not required in Len’s Island, but it is always nice to have a place to call your own and centralize all of your tools. As you explore your crafting menu, there will be a need for iron shards and coal, which will lead players into a nearby cave (which is easily found by following a dirt path near the spawn area). That gameplay loop is extremely entertaining, although it does not last very long. In non-linear survival games, crafting systems are supposed to push players to go to new places and see new places. Then enemies and NPCs can be used to push a player in a different direction. It is not a path being paved by quests or story beats like in an RPG but is a path that is paved through environmental and technical methods. Len’s Island does this a little bit at the beginning of the adventure but does not follow through to push the player very far.

The true scope of the game will come

While Len’s Island has quite a bit going for it, but there are several things that hold it back. A great genre but poor communication and not properly using the environment or circumstances to fully teach the player necessary things about the game. A beautiful overworld, and underwhelming underworld. A fast paced and engaging crafting system that does not go far enough and is fairly shallow. The opening minutes of effective survival games really set the tone of what’s to come. Awaking within the twisted carcass of an airliner in The Forest; crunching tentatively through the snow in The Long Dark; diving into the foreboding promise of some alien ocean in Subnautica. In the Australian-developed Len’s Island, you wash onto the shores of an idyllic, tropical land. The soft strings and keys of the soundtrack herald your arrival. The wind blows softly through the trees like an applause. You’re supposed to be here, as if this was always your home. Len’s Island finds itself slated more towards the perpetually welcoming and optimistic outlook of Stardew Valley than the tense and white-knuckled, resource-driven survival of the aforementioned The Long Dark. To describe something as a ‘survival crafting building game’ is about as meaningless as calling something a ‘rogue-like’ for all it tells you about the way something is going to make you feel; so I point you to that sun-kissed, glorious welcome to island shores that tells you Len’s Island is a game for you, not against you; a disposition which is both its greatest strength and weakness as it launches in Early Access. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Developer Flow Studio has gone on record essentially saying that Len’s Island is their answer to everything they see wrong in the survival genre. Unnecessary pressures on the player, juggling five different condition gauges, and a genre-wide inability to provide both compelling creative building tools alongside engaging, satisfying combat. These are sins of the genre that Len’s Island either does away with completely, or attempts to improve. In Flow Studio’s vision of a good survival game, you arrive ready-made and equipped into a landscape ripe for your own self-expression. The only meters you’ll need to keep an eye on are those for health and hunger (with your health depleting should you refuse to eat), and you are already capable of building a wide variety of wooden, stone and ornate structures. The pitch of Len’s Island is that its open, welcoming structure means that from the get-go, you can choose to be everything from a humble lumberjack to a daring adventurer in the caves beneath the island. Whichever way you slice it, the game will aim to provide you with an interesting gameplay loop. There are times when this works; and the island’s portrayal of coastal beauty, with truly biblical, glorious levels of natural sea-side splendour, goes a long way to greasing the loops of Len’s Island. Its art style speaks in an accent somewhere between Runescape and Valheim by way of a truly beautiful day-night cycle.

Resource collection (wood, stone, clay, grass, limestone, the list goes on…) in the game is forgivingly straightforward, with all tools necessary already in your possession the moment your little raft kisses the shoreline for the first time. However, Len’s Island’s complete dearth of direction or any real goal to speak of is where the friction began for me. Len’s Island is so averse to placing pressure on the player that there are rarely moments where I was left thinking ‘I must do this’ rather than ‘I suppose I should do this’. What’s missing is the pull of incentivised moment-to-moment goals. For example, the motivation of ‘if I can just get across this frozen lake, get inside, and make a fire I just might live through the night’ provides survival games with a stickiness that keeps you locked in the world, and invested in the state of your character. Combat deep in Len’s underground system of caves (which hold their own stories) is serviceable, and there’s an impressive list of weapons to buy or craft, but Len’s Island’s easy-breezy approach to structure left me feeling non-committal towards its few avenues of advancement and lack of personal stakes in any of what I built. I guess I could plant a bunch of blueberries in these garden beds, or build my dream villa on the beach dunes, or go kill some beasties and search for meaning in the caves down yonder, but….why? The confidence that, yes, there is probably something interesting on the end of that rope you’re tugging on has a propensity to wax and wane every now and then, considering that nobody asked you to do any of this, and even protagonist

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