the whole point of gems like sable is that we get to escape from the assassin's creed 1 million points of interest maps and quest logs

@Arnell_Long

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's an double edged sword. My ocd has me wanting to travel to every point of interest....but unfortunately, the checklists don't end in a Ubisoft game lol.

This game is 9/10 for the Moebius Simulator aspect alone. If there were a way to get an Arzach outfit, it would be 10/10

The artwork style and aesthetics reminds me of the French artist / cartoonist Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) even down to the expansive desolate terrain. I wonder if his work was an inspiration for the game and the games artists. I love Giraud's artwork and comics so maybe I would like the game but it's not on the PS4.

@MariaVosa

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought as well! I like to see developers allowing for more diverse graphic influences in their games.

@dennisnordlund902

2 жыл бұрын

It must be influenced by moebius, it would be uncanny otherwise. Really like the design though!

@backwardsbandit8094

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it literally says that its inspired by Moebius and zelda in the description on stream

Favourite game is trying to guess who reviews what before they begin speaking on 3MR. I'm at 9/10 correct guesses so far.

I love the distinct aesthetics of the game. Im somewhat reminded of the french artist Möebius.

@gonzofernandez

2 жыл бұрын

Read my mind man

@batardtrisomique

2 жыл бұрын

It's clearly more than an just a slight inspiration 😄 it looks amazing

@Psychol-Snooper

2 жыл бұрын

It is empirically drawing off the work of Moebius. Not a secret (to anyone.) XD

@Eunostos

2 жыл бұрын

@@Psychol-Snooper empirically? wot?

@Psychol-Snooper

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eunostos It's a word people with an IQ greater than 90 use.

It feels like you missed the point of the game by saying it’s empty and too easy, it’s not supposed to be challenging or fast paced. You experience gliding side by side with sable and absorb the lessons of freedom and open mindedness, the beauty of simplicity, to drop your expectations and let yourself be led to discovery both inside and out with no pressure. Though I suppose it’s not for everyone.

@benlastname7154

2 жыл бұрын

Take a breath of fresh air, be thoughtful and introspective, enjoy the little things, stuff like that.

@WillCBlogs

2 жыл бұрын

Fair points but I simply didn’t enjoy my time with the title. Additionally, I can’t drop expectations when reviewing anything. It’s impossible.

Thanks for playing Will 🙏 Sounds like it would be a lot more fun and engaging if it had something more - whether that be added combat or some enhanced difficulty in puzzles and/or platforming. I got the impression the map is maybe supposed to be as empty as it is(?). Like it might drive more engagement or excitement for when a player finally finds that sought-after new location. Hope you're as well as you can be man 🙏🍻 Cheers and thanks for all you make!

I'm on a Series S and the stuttering is more than I can swallow. How is the performance so bad? It looks like a slide show that was animated by an AI.

@DVictor23

2 жыл бұрын

What most people are thinking is stuttering its just the animations together with the art of the game.

Good review. Appreciated

Sable fits in really well with, what I like to call, "beautiful" games. Games made with the idea that the medium truly can be art. Think of titles like Journey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Grow Home, A Short Hike, Shelter, Rodina, Undertale, NaissanceE, GTA IV, Shadow of the Colossus, Spec Ops: The Line, Inside, Portal, The Stanley Parable, KotOR 2, Dishonored, Alien: Isolation and others. Games made by people that understand how to use gameplay and art direction to get you experiencing the story, instead of just watching it. For example, regarding the reviewers mild complaint about the game world feeling empty in Sable. I think that's exactly as intended, this lines up perfectly with the story of the game world being a scarcely populated cluster of deserts and the main character's feelings of going from being able to constantly interact with friends and family to suddenly being alone in an intimidating, indifferent and vast world. Each landmark and NPC interaction becomes more interesting and wanted because of that down time, In a similar way to how each battle in Shadow of the Colossus is so amazing because of the space between them.

Well there are some bugs and fps drops, and the world is mostly empty, BUT I do love this game more than anything I've played in a couple of years. I do chill and jump out of the day to day life routine while playing sable. This game proves two things: video game can be a piece of art, video game can be interesting while having no violence elements in gameplay.

gonna be free on epic tomorrow

One of my fav games this year. It's on gamepass so its a no brainer

Sounds like what I expected. Shame it's not on switch but I'll still pick it up later this year.

@ReubMann

2 жыл бұрын

Oh do you know if they plan on bringing it to switch? My computer cannot handle this game lol

Art style reminds me of Heavy Metal

@chanwooksook

Жыл бұрын

Heavy Metal was opened as a licensed translation of the French science-fantasy magazine Métal hurlant, that was curated by some great French artists including Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius). He’s art is the main inspiration for this game.

I had more fun playing Sable than BotW.

despite the flaws it still feels like my jam I at least want to play it for a bit to see what it has to offer

A lack of stuff in the world I can understand, that's a matter of personal preference, but I think pointing to a lack of conflict as a negative is a bit unfair, like criticising Fall Guys for lacking character development, it may be something you would've preferred, but it's pretty clear that's not what the game is going for. Same with the difficulty, a game about discovery shouldn't impede you from discovering.

@LOLquendoTV

2 жыл бұрын

I think its pretty fair, succesfully overcoming obstacles to your exploration is one of the best parts of such games. A game like breath of the wild would be rather boring if you didnt face opposition in the form of enemies/terrain etc. Its totally valid to complain about a lack of conflict in a game if the presence of it hinders its potential. Not saying I personally think its the case with Sable but still

@museofsalzburg2373

2 жыл бұрын

@@LOLquendoTV Just a difference in opinion then, I think this game wouldn't benefit from challenge the way most games similar to it would, and even if it would, this game champions a style and atmosphere that would be opposed to such challenges, imo. Enough games of this type beset you with difficulties when it comes to exploration, so I welcome this game and its ease of playability as a welcome change of pace.

@Baukereg

2 жыл бұрын

I'm with @@museofsalzburg2373. The lack of things to do is one element that makes this game a peaceful and relaxing experience for me.

@8lec_R

Жыл бұрын

@@LOLquendoTV if there's no obstacles players create their own. Minecraft is huge and there's almost nothing to do. I literally played for years without knowing about the end and nether.

@LOLquendoTV

Жыл бұрын

@@8lec_R Minecraft does have mobs however

7 hrs in and I like it. Some frame rate problems and the world is rather empty but it's a good game if you just wanna chill while gathering a few achievements. Free on gamepass so how can you go wrong :)

Ah yes, I came accross this game, and hoped The Escapist had done a review. Thanks!

What i wanna know is,how this got added to essentials,

I see my initial impressions of the Steam demo were correct. It's a neat graphic shader with the most barebones excuse of a game to go with it

Hated the jarring lags in game

No mention of the atrocious performance? Because it’s absolutely terrible to play with the stuttering freezing and useless camera.

@nicklager1666

2 жыл бұрын

yeah having played the game its definitly something that should have been pointed out. The camera is atrocious at times.

@riebeck1986

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I am getting a lot of stutters on PC, I want to continue playing it, but it gets annoying

@dr.chungusphd108

2 жыл бұрын

@@riebeck1986 on Xbox one x it’s essentially unplayable. Unless you’re ok with migraines.

@theescapist

2 жыл бұрын

Not everyone has the same experience, if he had experienced a lot of atrocious performance he would have indicated it in the review. It was reviewed on PC.

@seanw1783

2 жыл бұрын

@@theescapist I saw stutters in the video, maybe he's just not that sensitive to minor performance dips like some of us are?

comment for the almighty algorithm !!

A lack of difficulty and conflict are exactly what makes Sable so special. Imagine a sandbox. Playing with sand is fun. Why make playing with sand difficult and dangerous? Outer Wilds, Astroneer, Journey to the Savage Planet, Sable. Games made with pure joy, and are pure joy to play.

i'm 19h in already, it is probably my favourite game ever, there are some bad bugs but i don't really care, it is such a great world to just explore and chill

My favorite able sister.

PS Plus gang?

You forgot to mention how buggy and broken the game is

@nokturnallex2160

2 жыл бұрын

Yea from Steam reviews I've seen there's a lot of bugs. The biggest problem I've seen from both reviews and gameplay videos is the main way to travel (the hover bike) is the buggiest thing in the game. It looks like it's constantly having problems staying up right. No idea why they decided to go for those physics for it, just have it glide above the map and not clip.

@clubspy5114

2 жыл бұрын

@@nokturnallex2160 not just that I’ve been playing on Xbox one x and the frame rate is abysmal like below 20 in some places and pretty all the time text bubbles don’t show up above nps so you can’t talk or buy from them and th only way to fix it is to completely quit and restart the game it’s pretty frustrating I’ll just wait for a patch or something cuz the game is good

@shaggy8606

2 жыл бұрын

@@clubspy5114 Jesus I tired playing it on a og Xbox and it ran like a slide show lmao

@nokturnallex2160

2 жыл бұрын

@@clubspy5114 You're not missing out on much honestly, just tried out the PC version. The tutorial area worked fine but soon as I got into the open world I started exploring an industrial area and my character suddenly decided to clip through the structures I was exploring so I couldn't continue to climb it. I decided to uninstall after that. If the point of your game is exploration and it's so buggy you can't explore, that's a big problem. They definitely released way too early before they QA'd it properly. I wasn't trying to climb a pointless structure, there looked like there was something at the top of it and my character clipped through the structure half way to the top, then continued to clip through other objects that should've been solid.

The games performance and stutters on ps5 ruin the experience.

bought this recently after having known about it in development for years. Pretty disappointed. The devs clearly had a good idea with the style, but just copied breath of the wild for literally everything else except when it came to the actually fun gameplay of breath of the wild they substituted in this cringy wholesomeness. If I want wholesome, I'll get it in my real life from people I ACTUALLY love. If I want more breath of the wild, uhhh.. I can just play that game some more since it's actually fun. I put this down right when you go into that crashed ship and the kid wants you to fetch beetles before they give you that bike part. yeah no thanks.

Yeah, I had the same. It’s just too boring really. Besides, the framerate is total crap on Xbox One.

That's unfortunate.

Game is good but the reviewer is right. The world is grossly empty making the player feel like they payed for a open map with barely anything in it. What the reviewer doesn't touch on is that the game is absolutely packed with bugs. I'm also getting frame drops below 50fps at time on my 3080 so don't expect the game to be optimized at all.

@WillCBlogs

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t run into any during my experience. If I had, I definitely would have mentioned it. It’s a bummer to hear that it’s plagued with bugs ☹️

@Chriswelder1

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillCBlogs The demo ran great. Was excited for the full game. Downloaded it the day it came out and from the start I could see that the performance was not on par with the demo. I'm not the only one experiencing this on PC either. Hopefully they come out with a patch.

I'll be honest: something about this cell shading art style just doesn't do it for me. Had my problems with Obra Dinn for similar reason - great game but gave me sore eyes.

@darthbrutalicious6066

2 жыл бұрын

Completely understandable. I had the same problem with another indie game emulating the PS1 era.What games you consider easier to the eyes?

I'm pretty sure this is the French world Sable (sand), so it would be pronounced saabl' ([\sɑbl\] so silent h). 😉

Bummer, saw this a while ago and it looked interesting :/

a beautiful but boring crap "game", actually more entertaining watching someone else trudge through it. Don't waste your money, watch those that already have on the youtube.

This looks beautiful to be truth :) Shame the gameplay is not so inspiring :(

The game's art style is a lesson in how to upset codecs.

Should have just made a web comic.

One big meh.

common bane of open-world games, vast and empty

So as a... *"Breath of the Wild."* 😍 Type game, its basically... *"Meh of the Mild."* 😴

Meh