Sky Oceans: Wings for Rent guarantees lots, giving impressions of an open sky to fly by way of, placing collectively a crew, and happening loads of adventures. Sadly, the fact is that Sky Oceans: Wings for Rent wasn’t but able to set sail, with points galore that simply compounded till I needed to throw within the proverbial towel round what felt just like the midway level.
The story of Sky Oceans: Wings for Rent follows Glenn Windwalker, the most recent within the line of adventurers from the Windwalker household. The story begins along with his mum coming back from an journey alone, with Glenn’s father nowhere to be seen. A while passes, and no matter enterprise Glenn’s dad and mom received concerned with catches up with them when their residence of Blossom is attacked by the Alliance. Glenn finally ends up escaping with a few of his buddies and vows revenge towards the Alliance. It’s all very by the numbers, to be trustworthy. In a while, extra factions make themselves recognized, however by then the issues of Sky Oceans: Wings for Rent have compounded right into a reasonably boring mess.
For a lot of the sport you can be flying by way of the skies of Sky Ocean in both a small airjet or an enormous airship, relying on the surroundings. The airjets are used to discover the few floating islands and outposts dotted about and utilized in fight towards different airships and flying beasts. The massive airship is used to combat the larger pirate and alliance ships which are all sitting in place throughout the Sky Ocean.
For what ought to be an ocean full of hustle and bustle of different adventurers, merchants and extra, it feels unusual that solely your ship is shifting by way of it. It additionally suffers from missing draw distances and different points. This sky ocean has numerous floating lands that seems through pop in or type proper in entrance of you. Within the basement area, the island artifacts simply didn’t render correctly, continually showing and disappearing. One of many areas you’ll discover in every area is a searching zone to collect sources from the flying beasts they usually could even have treasure chests, however the random era is so poor that some treasure chests simply received’t open and others simply don’t exist even when you’ve got flown to the spot that the marker is pointing to.
Fight takes too lengthy and is unrefined. Fight is flip based mostly with events of as much as 4 going through off towards one another. In your flip you’ll be able to select to assault, evade, use an merchandise or retreat. There are additionally Arts, elemental based mostly weapons that may confer standing results on pal and foe alike. There are standing results which provide you with the message ‘translation description lacking’, so I couldn’t even inform you what a few of these do. It isn’t simply right here that merchandise descriptions are lacking, as they’re additionally lacking for some objects within the outlets.
It additionally simply takes too lengthy. In the event you play battles at regular pace they’ll take over ten minutes simply due to the repeating animations that play out for each assault. Fortunately, you’ll be able to quick ahead by way of these animations to chop down on the time battles take. Early on, battles will be robust, however in a short time they grow to be simple to cross as a result of the enemy patterns hardly change letting you employ the identical routines to take them out as shortly as doable.
You’d additionally assume within the Sky Oceans there can be rather a lot to do, however there isn’t. In every area, there’s at the least one outpost that you simply wander round on foot to get quests, which break down into searching creatures for meat or taking out pirate airships. Once you settle for a quest to take out pirate airships, the search giver says you must take out 5 to achieve success. In actuality, the search counter requires you’re taking out six to finish the mission. As well as, when combating in my large airship, none of my characters ever earned any XP or levelled up, which meant the ship crew remained at stage one. Not that it mattered, because the airship is completely overpowered and might take out a pirate ship in a few turns. One other difficulty popped up right here, the place after ending battles towards pirate airships my airship would inexplicably have drifted off to the sting of the map, smacking up towards the air wall that separates areas.
If you find yourself searching, you have to to collect a sure variety of sources, and take them again to the search giver. First time, full success. Within the second area, I accomplished the hunt and returned to the city and quest giver, however I couldn’t full the search as a result of the sport determined I had already accomplished it regardless of the search being open, and the trophy for it by no means popping.