Sable Review
Recommended
Sable is a decent game with great no-hand-holding world exploration, variance, and climbing. Has numerous glitches.
If you're willing to accept and forgive the glitches, they're not standing in the way of the great world exploration and atmosphere.
+ World variance and depth
+ Great climbing mechanics and variance
+ Unique visual style
+ At times great music or musical and tonal atmosphere setting and support
+ Numerous biomes
* If you read the dialogues, it has world-depth
* "Slow-paced" - sometimes irritated me, but added to the atmosphere and exploration-nature
* A lot of text dialogue, main story, side-quests, and world-building optional (not voiced)
* Glider made me expect speed, but for the most part it is slow
* Took me ~19 hours to 100% (fishing and the last set of Chum egg collecting completion was only really possible with a guide)
- Muse menu-ing is a buggy mess
- Graphical glitches
- Geometry glitches
- Glider control glitches/messes (small rocks leading to spinning, etc)
- Stuttering (even on high-end PC)
- And other bugs - but ultimately playable
Overall, my impression was negative at first, and I disliked the slow speed and taking away of player controls even for obvious "this is unlocked now" camera shots/cutscenes. It takes quite a while to unlock the glider to get decent speed (what I would consider high speed is not available). But I can see how the "slow" nature can be a positive for setting the mood and world-explorative atmosphere.
Reading so much text can generally feel like a hassle, but I found it okay in this game, for the most part. The characters and dialogue added to the depth of the world. Outside of the primary story, it gives meaning and explanation to locations and people and their relationships, and outside of that it explains why the world is the way it is.
If you're willing to accept and forgive the glitches, they're not standing in the way of the great world exploration and atmosphere.
+ World variance and depth
+ Great climbing mechanics and variance
+ Unique visual style
+ At times great music or musical and tonal atmosphere setting and support
+ Numerous biomes
* If you read the dialogues, it has world-depth
* "Slow-paced" - sometimes irritated me, but added to the atmosphere and exploration-nature
* A lot of text dialogue, main story, side-quests, and world-building optional (not voiced)
* Glider made me expect speed, but for the most part it is slow
* Took me ~19 hours to 100% (fishing and the last set of Chum egg collecting completion was only really possible with a guide)
- Muse menu-ing is a buggy mess
- Graphical glitches
- Geometry glitches
- Glider control glitches/messes (small rocks leading to spinning, etc)
- Stuttering (even on high-end PC)
- And other bugs - but ultimately playable
Overall, my impression was negative at first, and I disliked the slow speed and taking away of player controls even for obvious "this is unlocked now" camera shots/cutscenes. It takes quite a while to unlock the glider to get decent speed (what I would consider high speed is not available). But I can see how the "slow" nature can be a positive for setting the mood and world-explorative atmosphere.
Reading so much text can generally feel like a hassle, but I found it okay in this game, for the most part. The characters and dialogue added to the depth of the world. Outside of the primary story, it gives meaning and explanation to locations and people and their relationships, and outside of that it explains why the world is the way it is.