"From the legendary creator, Mr. Yasuhiro Wada (TOYBOX Inc.), comes Birthdays the Beginning: a new sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms. With careful experimentation, players can shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem!"
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Look at the hours played of all the reviewers and you'll see very few over 20. The question is why does a game that looks great and has so much potential end up with the game play hours of an RPG Maker game? The reason is that Birthdays is a fishbowl maker. You put down terrain. You fill it with water (temperature / moisture). It chooses what fish you get based on the your choices. Once you've done that, you can watch an unchanging world. You have fun up until that last step. Every creature in the game is a representation of a number under the hood. It walks around and makes noise, but it doesn't actually do anything. And that's when you see your limitation in the game. You can only affect the terrain. The only way that the animals live or die is based on terrain you make. You end up with an expensive terrain editor with creatures that are check boxes with pretty animations. Was it
I do not recommend this if you do not have a reliabale internet service. Sadly had to refund this as it requires an always on internet connection. My internet is too unreliable to allow me to play. Had I known beforehand i would not have watsed my time buying and then refunding. I REALLY like the look of this game too. Why does a single player only game have to have an internet connection to play????
Virtually required: 1. Play the game with a controller (I did so with an xBox 360 controller). 2. The desire to play a game that is a mix of the terrain sculpting ability of a city simulator, the "control evolution" (this time, of the world... instead of a single creature) of Spore, with a bit of single player strategy game dynamics (keep watch on temperatures, land types, and moisture levels. Get this creature to unlock the next in the "tech tree".) Pros: 1. Simple to learn 2. Once you get used to them, the controls are intuitive. Further, it has a good "first campaign" to teach you to do so. 3. Overall: Fun (if you generally like games, as described, above) Cons: 1. A few translation errors still exist in the game. 2. (Related to above) Could use some better wording on some organisms to know whether you need to mutate or evolve them. 3. Some of the Steam achievements will take some c
I watched a few You Tube Let's Plays (Wanderbots and Aavak) of this and it looked interesting. Reviews (and the Let's Players) mentioned issues with the game and that's why I bought it on sale (still a hefty £26). As I can waffle at international level, I'll do a quick review then a longer one with bullet points which I feel the developers need to address before doing anything else to the game like DLC. Short version: - You'll either like the graphics or not, you don't need to buy the game to figure that out, check You Tube - Play the beta version; it has more adaptability to the key configuration if you're using a mouse and keyboard - The controls are abysmal and the tutorial does not in any way help you with learning the controls because it ALWAYS assumes you're using a controller. This is really shoddy work on the part of the developers and should have been fixed before release - Th
Went into this wanting to like it, but it is hard to recommend for a few reasons. I'll start with what I do like. It's cute, pretty looking, and there does seem to be a good variety of creatures, some rarer than others. I think I enjoy it -just- enough to see my story playthrough to completion. It's "interesting" to mess with for a little while. And that is about it on the positives. In the game, you mold terrain and use special powers to affect the ecology of a plot of land. Depending on what you do, you can lead creatures and plants down different evolutionary branches. This seems like it would be very engaging, but when you realize that most of what happens in this game is very cosmetic, it'll begin to wear thin. You will spend a disappointing amount of time just watching the map spin around as the game counts up the years in fast-forward mode while giving you a readout of what spe
Before buying this game I read a lot of mixed reviews saying this game had a good idea but wasn't expanded on enough to really make the game worth its $40 price tag. I was nervous about getting the game and it being unenjoyable because it was too simple, or broken. So many of the reviews stated that the player became bored of the experience before the 20hr mark which really made me wonder about it. Birthdays the beginning is a world builder, you are playing the role of a person who somehow ended up in charge of creating, or better put, shaping a new world. By Shaping, I literally mean your role is to decide how the world will look and this is as far as most reviews go in regards to the game-play. But they do not go into what effect your role has on the world. You may decide to place a mountain in the middle of the map, with a freshwater source running down to the open ocean below, thi
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