Gaming News I played the most ambitious survival game of 2024. I can’t stop playing Nightingale!
After the Palworld sensation, Nightingale is the promising new open-world survival video game of the year. I started the adventure in Early Access and it is already very promising.
Early access
Nightingale is still in early access for a period of nine to twelve months.
If you want to embark on the Nightingale epic, you will have to invest time in considering that your character is finally fully integrated into the adventure and in assimilating all the operations of this universe. Reading the first documents left at your address and talking to the few (initially very few) survivors you meet at the start of the journey – including a strange narrator who is very present – are quite tiring. and require a little perseverance to understand what it’s really about (but luckily it’s translated into French). However, I quickly realize that I am stuck in a universe that lies beyond our planet Earth. made inaccessible by the collapse of a network of arcane portals. So here I am, forced to survive from nowhere in a variety of fairy kingdoms that are as dangerous as they are mysterious ruins. The stated goal is the following: “Become a skilled Reamwalker and navigate the web of interdimensional portals“. And this is the only way to get to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known stronghold of humanity.
The concept is therefore based on a concept of portals that lead to procedurally generated areas using maps. There are three types of maps: those that determine the environment, those that decide what happens there, and those that offer a little twist. The system, therefore modular, works wonderfully for the moment and adds all the originality of the track, but at the same time gives it a good rhythm and an element of the unknown that we always look forward to exploring. And then the idea of having to collect a whole bunch of cards is very pleasant. This all contrasts very interestingly with your avatar, as you are a British paradimensional adventurer from the Victorian era.
Bizarre avatar in lush forest
Let’s start from the beginning, the game of course starts with a character editor, which is very promising despite a large number of parameters that the developers have not yet been able to develop due to early access. The skin structure is very well defined, the adaptation is already well advanced and the result is… let’s say unique. See for yourself in the screenshot below, your adventurer in Nightingale will definitely be different than everyone else. Interesting little tidbit: you are asked to create your entire lineage for reasons still unclear to me. You also have to choose a role for your character: you are free to make him a vile thief, a well-read man or even a wanderer, characteristics whose importance, again, is not really revealed in the first part of the adventure.
Once your hero or heroine is created, you are thrown into the immensity of a forest, with barely a few pieces of cloth to cover you and vegetation to shave off for your resource needs. The gameplay loop is currently as follows: you have to grow as much as possible to satisfy your hunger, build a more or less sturdy shelter to rest, and complete the activities available in a kingdom, then discover something new that you will never discover in the first place Depending on the biome you visit, there are other magnificent landscapes: swamps, deserts, jungles and lush forests waiting for you to drop off your luggage. The level of realism is quite astonishing and it’s honestly a pleasure to get lost in each of these environments, the beauty of which of course depends on what your bike can handle.R. Also note that the title is only playable online and can be approached cooperatively for an extra dose of fun.
Difficult handling for addictive experience
Currently, The encounters are thin, as are the buildings to explore. In other words, there is little to do at the beginning of “Nightingale.” However, I’ve already had the opportunity to come across a handful of pretty delicious puzzles. The arguments, on the other hand, were significantly less gripping. If my character has certain abilities, such as: B. the ability to dodge, parry and deliver ax strikes, The sensations are hardly satisfactory, the combat is certainly the least interesting part of the game.
We’d much rather constantly craft new tools to harvest plant and mineral resources, unlock new blueprints, and strengthen our equipment to withstand the rigors of the wilderness. The game’s mechanics are intended to be relatively accessible, and you are even offered several difficulty levels. On the other hand, it’s still quite difficult to get started, and for good reason: the user interface is a bit clear and the controls are far from optimized., so much so that I often had to juggle between keyboard and mouse with a certain amount of discomfort. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area, and yet there is something addictive about the experience that makes me want to dive back head first to discover all these secrets.
