Review: Smoke and Sacrifice (PlayStation 4)
Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.
Pros:
- Hand drawn graphics.
- Platinum trophy
- 1.15GB Download size.
- Survival RPG gameplay.
- Play how you want.
- Craft- You can do basic crafting in the menu but need equipment for a higher grade and more sophisticated crafts.
- Recipes- Use Sourfruit juice on recipes to reveal them.
- Weather- Different types and you need the gear so Snow would need more layers whereas Sun would need less. It can affect your performance.
- In engine cutscenes.
- Map fills in as you explore.
- Menu shortcuts on the d-pad.
- Simple hack and slash combat.
- Smoke- Need light to push the smoke back so you can move or else you take damage.
- Colorful NPC to meet/interact with.
- Unlock fast travel.
- Save terminals.
- The map will fill in icons not only for missions/quests but also vendors/points of interest etc.
- Really nice soundtrack.
- Smoke and Sacrifice has huge crafting tables and opportunities.
- A solid story full of humor and darkness.
- Has a Don’t Starve vibe about it.
- Stunning locations.
- Drips in a very dark open world with some memorable adventures.
- Smoke and Sacrifice is a linear experience.
Cons:
- Minimal graphics options with only fullscreen and resolution available.
- Slow pace.
- Little direction.
- Item management is a nightmare.
- So much crafting it soon outstays its welcome as items have short life spans.
- Not as much fun with the keyboard and mouse as shortcut keys are either awkward or not a thing.
- Combat can get sloppy especially with more than one enemy on you.
- A lot of backtracking.
- Small inventory space.
- Save points instead of saving anywhere.
