Review: Stranded Sails – Explorers of the Cursed Islands (PlayStation 4)
Stranded Sails is a family-friendly and relaxing Open World farming adventure full of discoveries and quests! Along with your crew, you’re shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Master all challenges to finally escape from the strange islands.
Pros:
- Gorgeous graphics.
- 991.7mb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Ongoing tutorials.
- Survival action gameplay.
- Handbook-fills as you play with tips and lore.
- Quick to learn controls complete with shortcut wheels for quick selection.
- Farming-grow/water/pick food.
- Chests/crates found in the world and contain crafting materials.
- Crafting-hack trees, collect plans, combine materials to make more materials.
- Stamina system-Goes down when doing anything like walking/running/fishing and if it empties you pass out.
- Fishing-rhythm action mini-game, time your pulls.
- Map-shows area percentage, you can place markers and press a button on the map to fast travel home.
- Day/night cycle.
- Play how you want.
- Boat-use to freely travel between islands.
- Can have multiple saves and characters including the option to skip the opening tutorial set piece.
- Autosaves regularly.
- Cooking-combine random food types to create recipes, food gives buffs.
- Stew-cook for everyone and you add ingredients that everyone will like, it fills a bar and you get rewards and get a buff.
- A lot of colorful characters.
- A lot of fun.
- Main quests and side missions.
Cons:
- Blue screen crashes.
- Slow burner.
- Many many fetch quests.
- Brutal stamina gauge with it depleting fast and you cannot carry enough food to keep it topped up.
- Items disappearing from your inventory randomly.
- No guidance on where to get certain materials.
