#WINDBOUND MAP PLUS#

Even if you don’t get mauled by a wild animal, death in Windbound is near-certain. Go too long, and that hunger will cut into your health bar. Stamina steadily depletes over time, the longer you go without finding food. You have to watch both her health and her stamina bars. It doesn’t help that Kara, the player character, isn’t exactly made of steel.

#WINDBOUND MAP PLUS#

At the start, your inventory is pittance, and consists of some key items - for instance, your trusty knife or, eventually, an oar with untold magical properties - plus seven other slots.

By design, you’re forced into situations in which you lose over and over again, respawning each time with only the items on your person. Windbound also has some roguelite elements. They’ll just appear in your crafting menu. It’s a nice quality-of-life touch: You don’t need to spend time hunting for recipes. (Make sure no boar-beasts are nearby!) You start out with just one crafting recipe, but will slowly learn more as you play. Eventually, you’ll craft a sail and even a second hull, turning your vessel into a rudimentary catamaran.Ĭrafting happens in real time, kind of like it does in The Last of Us. To do so, you need to collect resources, which you can use to build and improve increasingly sturdy boats. Success is hinged, simply, on getting lost.

Don’t think about memorising the lay of the land or snapping screenshots: The islands are procedurally generated. Even the map of each level starts off fully shrouded in fog, though it slowly clears as you sail around. Windbound doesn’t give you a compass or waypoints or anything of that nature to help with your journey. Once you find all three, you’ll be able to open up a portal to the next chapter - if you can sail to it before you run out of stamina. In each chapter, you have to find three bronze ammonite shells, all of which are perched on top of a towering stone structure that you have to seek out. Your goal, as far as I can tell from six hours playing, is to explore the horizon. You don’t explore puzzle-packed dungeons and banish evil men with unhealthily orange hair. While Windbound may share some DNA with that modern classic, it’s no Zelda game. Both feature no shortage of unexplained mysticism. Both have whimsical, cel-shaded graphics. It gained some attention for bearing resemblance to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Developed by 5 Lives Studios, Windbound was first announced in April, via a PlayStation blog post. The spear is located in the same key items space that the oar and knife can be found.Windbound, out now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One (where I played), and PC, is a survival game set in an oceanic realm called the Forbidden Islands. Players can use this spear at their discretion, and it doesn't take up any space in the bag since it can not be removed manually. Unfortunately, the spear is not a permanent possession and can be easily switched out by selecting a different boon but the fact that this spear is indestructible makes it one of the better choices for keeping Kara safe. This does mean players will have to sacrifice some other potential boons in order to use the spear. One of the boons offered to players is the Ancestral Spear. This shrine grants players a variety of boons to help survive. After the successful completion of a trial, Kara will come to a shrine on a tiny island that stands before the exit. Kara will be surrounded by a mural depicting events that somehow relate to her current predicament, and have to tackle a sailing trial. Players can't find or craft the Ancestral spear as it is not an item based in the actual world, but in-between worlds.Īfter every chapter, the player is transported to a space that doesn't exist where any of the regular islands are located. The Ancestral Spear does not work this way. Most weapons in the game require some basic parts to craft alongside a special component found very sparingly in each chapter. It's an everlasting weapon that will never break no matter how many battles Kara has to endure. The Spear of Ancestors is a very unique weapon for the fact that it does not operate like other spears.

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