So I played Nightingale past midnight, checked socials later to find... nothing much worth reporting. So no news segment today.
So Nightingale is a survival craft game along the same same lines as The Forest, Grounded and Abiotic Factor, games that have an open world for you to explore, build up a base and some gear, completing quests to further along a story. Its set in a Victorian-era kinda time period (gas lamp as the game refers itself) where magic is a thing and you end up entering the "fae-wilds" as a realmwalker.
I completed the first realms main quest and unlocked the next realm so my intial impressions are this, I like this game. Granted in terms of survival craft games that i've played, its not my favourite but I do dig what they are doing here. Abiotic Factor is hard to top with its premise being half-life with a bit of SCP to boot. Minecraft might count as one perhaps and I do enjoy the rare session here and there.... does We Happy Few technically count? Maybe back in its intial pitch perhaps uhhh anyway.
Back on topic, I ended up building a wee base in some ruins and got a bedroll and some crafting stations up along with some farms. Explored the map a bit, went to the realm heart and completed a small dungeon, beat a boss and unlocked access to a new realm in the crossways to go to.
Something you can do in this game is you can craft enchantments and bonuses to your items. Something you can craft is decorations you can place in your base that can improve your nearby crafting stations a bit. A fishing rack for example when placed near a cooking fire can improve the quality of any fish dish you make, giving you better stats. Enchantments are basically spells you can attach to a weapon or tool that'll let you cast that spell when you have that currently equipped. I had the first spell you get immolation on my big hammer maul so I can charge a fireball blast on groups of enemies and deal heavy damage to single targets. You can also add some charms and traits as well so I had a stamina recovery on kill for my maul and for my offhand throwing knives I had an explorer charm thats lets me sprint infinitely.
Nightingale also apparently had a recent updated called Realms Rebuilt which reworked some things including the tutorial and added an offline mode since it was orginally online only?? So this is purely based on that, I dont know what it was like pre update besides the online mode but given the recent rating on steam, this update must have been a welcome change. Its still in early access at the time of writing but if you're interested, its on sale atm.
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