These delicacies will grant health bonuses, power boosts and secret boons. Al Fresco Dining – Create deliciously authentic Eastwardian cuisine using (mostly) fresh, organic ingredients from toxic forests, potcrab farms and abandoned malls.Small Town Life – Get to know a quirky cast of characters with oodles of personality! Immerse yourself in a heartwarming story-driven adventure, packed with fun and wacky humor. As I mentioned in my Eastward preview, the pair have a certain energy that instantly draws parallels between it and The Last of Us, especially in the balance between the pair Johns silence.Separate the duo to unlock hidden paths or stick together as you traverse a perilous landscape. Mix Things Up – Switch between John and Sam to solve environmental puzzles and fight your way through formidable dungeons.Feeling merciful? Try temporarily stunning them with Sam’s kinetic blast. Fight or Fry – Fend off peculiar monsters and ferocious bosses with John’s weapon of choice-be it a flamethrower, cog-shooter or your trusty ol’ frying pan.Climb aboard the cross-country railway which spans this decaying continent, stopping off to explore its bustling towns, curious campsites and shady forests. Travel the World – Discover the wonderfully weird world of Eastward.But for a hardworking miner and a mysterious young girl, the hope of a thriving outside world beckons…Įscape the tyrannical clutches of Sandfill’s subterranean society and join Eastward‘s unlikely duo on an exciting adventure to the land above! Discover beautiful yet bizarre settlements and make new friends as you travel across the world by rail.Ĭontains adult humor and some mature themes. Those who could escape the miasma flocked to underground villages to start a new life. A deadly toxic presence has spread across the land, destroying and devouring everything in its path. In the near-future, society is starting to collapse, and the human population is at an all-time low. These are essentially play-to-win, gacha style microtransactions, but if Eastward is trying to make a point about their use in games with real money it doesn’t come across clearly.Eastward is an adventure video game developed by Pixpil and published by Chucklefish.Įastward is a beautifully detailed and charming adventure game, from Shanghai-based indie developers, Pixpil. It’s not entirely retro though as you can retain newly recruited characters between runs and buy ‘Pixballs’ at random before starting. Although there is no concrete release date for ‘Eastward’ yet, the game is expected to be released sometime in 2020. I loved details like laundry on lines between. Much of it is alive with little animations like running water, glinting metal, or spinning fans. There’s even an entire game-within-a-game called Earth Born, which is a highly addictive roguelike dungeon crawler that looks and plays like an 80s era Final Fantasy. The vibrant pixel art landscapes are so creative and so packed with detail that I often found myself stopping to just look at a city street or a new railway station. What really makes the gameplay pop is their vastly. There’s a lot of blowing up obviously fragile walls with bombs and messing around with switches, but as with the combat there’s little substance or originality to any of the obstacles.Įastward also has lots of mini-games to punctuate different moments, and while none of them are very complicated the rafting, baseball, and cooking events offer a welcome change of pace. Eastward acts as a unique fusion of 2D Zelda and the Mario & Luigi games, where you swap between John and Sam to fight enemies and clear puzzles. Or at least a Fisher-Price version of it. While John takes the lead in combat, Sam comes to the forefront when puzzle-solving, which, as you’ve probably guessed, is also inspired by Zelda. The combat is clearly inspired by Zelda, and like everything else looks gorgeous in action, but it’s ultimately very simple.
Unlike EarthBound though you don’t fight them in turn-based combat but real-time, with John employing a range of melee and ranged weapons, starting with a frying pan, and Sam utilising her psychic powers to help him, with her ability to freeze them in place being especially useful. Just like EarthBound, enemies are all extremely silly, from flying, two-legged pigs to man-eating plants and frog people.
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