The game marks save points with schools of green fish which are easy to see and also let you know you are someplace the game deems important . But the game is really picky and after hiring crew , upgrading your ship or after making a big discovery the game wont save even if it says it does onscreen .
I played for nearly an hour and hit several checkpoints ( the game acknowledged them ), but when I died and loaded the last checkpoint I was sent back to the Ice Palace that was over an hour of work prior . It was a maddening experience .
Death sucks and I ’ m glad that it isn ’ t permanent , but losing hours of progress when you shouldn ’ t is a real pain . I ’ m working from a review build of the game so maybe this has been addressed for tomorrow ’ s launch of the game , but it ’ s something that happened more than once and hurt the game .
Diluvion is still a good little game that does so much right , but just feels like it needed a little more time in the oven to cook . For all the amazing style it oozes it just lacks that little bit of final polish it needs to be great .
That said the issues it has could easily be addressed in a patch or two and they don ’ t keep Diluvion from still being a solid gaming experience .
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