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5. Combat Sequence: Eventide Island



See that abandoned island in the distance? You can go there. Pretty cool huh. And what happens as soon as you hit the ground, has got to be one of the biggest non-plot Surprises in video games.

The entire game is flipped on its head--all your clothes, weapons, items, everything is taken away, and a voice tells you you can't leave, until you track down and conquer three puzzles.

Suddenly the game is fresh again. Hunting and gathering seem to matter again. Gathering up tree branches as weapons matters again, cooking matters, every little enemy matters, a Hinox is actually a seal-ious problem again.

It's a great example of the fundamental promise of open world adventure video games, finally being 100% delivered--see a thing, adventure your way to get there, it turns out to be something interesting, and you finish it, and then repeat. The game we've dreamed of, actually exists.

(Big Legit Gameplay points, and World Riddle points as you track down and solve the Multi-Solution puzzle/challenges.)

So why only position #5? I feel like the correct strategies undermine the island's potential idea of "starting from scratch"--the best way to get an orb? Just steal it. Other solutions are actually terrible--don't do weapon gathering or meal prep, if you actually fight the Hinox, it's gonna be tedious, or you're gonna end up just exploiting his pathing so you can throw explosives at him.

In addition, the first time I played this, explosions blew the upper plateau's orb way out into the water. It took me over an hour to actually get it back on the island and back up the plateau. It was pretty miserable.

And pretty awesome.

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