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It does not seem excessive to say that survival is a very strong human nature. It is so strong that it is the instinct that makes human beings able to advance and have a strong culture on this earth. The basic properties gained from the pre-technology era are as if never to disappear, even until the time of the VR today.The instinct is especially so strongly seen in gamers, with its competitive nature that is so strong and wants to always be the top. When instinct survives poured into the game, then created the genre game survival. Although not as popular as competitive games, such as RTS and FPS, survival games have a charm that is so strong and attached when played. When you are in a constant state of life or death, the adrenaline will always flow and make whatever is encountered will always be challenging. That is the main attraction of this genre.
Themes that are usually used for this kind of game are usually Zombie Apocalypse. Very rarely survival games that use the theme of natural disaster or the end of the world. Only Japanese game developers alone, with its Disaster Report series capable of capturing the thick essence of survival amid the collapse of modern civilization. The Flame in The Flood wants to capture a similar impression, with a natural disaster in the form of a global flood. The Flame in The Flood has a very interesting gameplay, in which case you have to survive the truth. Unlike survival games AAA caliber that only survive from Zombie, this game just ask you to survive the threat of natural elements. Hunger, thirst, disease, cold, until a wild animal would be a far more terrible enemy than a Zombie. By sticking to the action and crafting gameplay system, The Flame in The Flood presents survival games that are very challenging and at the same time addictive. Presentation of the game itself is quite interesting to see. Capitalize the graphic display of the darkness with darkness, you will be brought into the ruins of the modern world that has been taken over by nature. Although basically this game uses a cartoon color palette, the effects of lighting and beautiful color filters make it far from the standard. We were made several times amazed when we saw the wonderful effects of the weather and the awesome panorama, even in the midst of the destruction of the world.
How Long Can You Live?
The purpose of this game is very simple; how long can you survive in the midst of a ruined world? Without being supported by a deep story or a fascinating event, The Flame in The Flood still managed to give us the direction of the game. At the beginning of the game we were given a narrative, about a dog named Aesop carrying a backpack containing a radio to the character that would later be played. But after a long play, in the end it is not all that important. As long as we can survive longer than ever!. I think that's the essence of the whole game, what you can learn from the previous defeat. Do not worry about death, because surely your character will die for a reason. When we played this game, we first died of being bitten by a wolf, a second and a third due to a wild boar, fourth by drowning, fifth due to illness, and so on. However, from each death we improve the record of survival time. Because, every failure becomes a new lesson to help repeat the game from scratch.
If you still want to have a goal or a mission, then this game provides it. In some areas, you can find the post box. Check out the post box and you will be given additional missions with rewards that are helpful in extending the life of the game. Usually, the mission is useful for providing survival lessons, for example by asking you to make a stone knife, repair a broken bone, or make a meal. The postal box also sometimes provides some objects that can be used for survival, of course if you are lucky to find it. Note also that this game will always randomize the area encountered and everything encountered in it, every time you repeat the game. This random gameplay system makes the game always fresh and the challenges that will be encountered will always be a surprise. So forget about the intention to memorize anything that will be encountered in the game; it's best to memorize how to survive based on previous play experiences!
Action Gameplay Against Time
The Flame in The Flood will always challenge you with time. However, that does not mean you will be given countdown as in other action games, for then you will die when the time is up. Against time here means you will always try to find many objects to be a life support. Because, the longer you stay silent, the more time you waste on things that are useful, such as looking for materials to make a trap, in order to catch a rabbit that will become dinner today. Gameplay from The Flame in The Flood itself is action. You will run using WASD control, Shift to run, use Space to attack or scare your opponent, and right click to interact. Running or attacking is helpful in the game, but doing it will spend your stamina. So, it can not always be used. As mentioned earlier, this game is just like racing with time. So running is a necessity that needs to be carefully considered during its use. Usually, you will be adventuring in one area to search for various materials. The material will be used for crafting or making other items used for survival. Want to make a bandage to heal the wound? Then look for cloth and alcohol first. What if you want to make grilled meat to eat? Collect first materials to make traps, catch the rabbits using the trap, skin rabbits, make a bonfire, just cook the meat! Nothing is instantly in this game! Unfortunately, not all areas are safe from threats. In some areas, you can find wild animals that are starving and see you as a dinner, or maybe just because you get into the area. Usually, during the day you can meet wild boars, wolves at night wandering for prey, while when you are peaceful sleeping beside the fire, snakes come to look for warmth and bite you!
Each of these threats can hurt you in various forms. When you are hit by a pig, your bones can break. Burning wolves will result in cuts and bleeding. While snake bites will provide harmful toxins. Whenever you are hit by an attack, an icon indicating a wound will appear at once telling you what kind of injury you get. The more injuries you get, the closer you will be to death. Interestingly, not all injuries can be obtained from animal attacks. In some areas, you may get injured by natural elements, such as from an ant nest you step on or a thorny incision from the bushes! The wound will make the movement slow down and if not treated will result in more dangerous health conditions. The longer the wound will be angry, eventually giving you a variety of penalties for you, such as being feverish and faster thirst, until finally die.
Backpack and Crafting
Each wound needs to be treated in a different way. That is, the object used to cure is not the same. Therefore, you should search for and make the medicine from a variety of different recipes! However, storing too many objects in a bag is not a wise move. Therefore, the bag you use has limits. Each slot in the bag will be filled with one type of object or crafting material. The object will continue to accumulate until the number is 10, then it will take a new slot. What happens when the slot in the bag is full? Then you can not pick new objects or even make new objects through crafting! Therefore, objects that are created do not have storage. Fortunately, you can expand the bag by way of crafting or giving it to your faithful dog. In addition, you can also store objects into boats that will later be used to move to other areas. However, objects stored on boats can not be taken at any time, but you should be near the boat to use them. All these objects will be used in survival. In addition can be consumed, materials obtained on the way will also be used in crafting. At least you can find up to more than 60 types of objects in the crafting. Starting from food, drinks, clothing, weapons, traps, to drugs can be found in the crafting. Various objects have a variety of materials and the composition of the amount. That's why it's very wise to always look at crafting recipes and compare them with what's on the way. Because, there could be important objects that can actually be made but need another one made with crafting first.
Any crafting recipe that can be made right then, in the sense you have all the ingredients, will be selectable on the crafting menu. However, there are also recipes that require a certain place to make it, for example it needs to be made at a campfire or workshop table. So also if he needs other equipment to make it, such as iron knife or hammer. As long as all the requirements are not met, then you can not make it, even if all the ingredients have been obtained. This is what makes the experience of play and failure important to improve success in the next session. Because, the longer you play, the important recipes and sequence of making will be remembered alias memorized. Through failure you will also find what crafting objects are important to make at the beginning of the game, after reaching further areas, or to fight wild animals that are hard to beat. So it can be said crafting is the heart of The Flame in The Flood.
Rivers, Bridges to New Regions
The main element that became a major disaster in The Flame in The Flood was the great flood. When playing, you will realize there is so much water flowing in this game. For that reason also every area in this game separated by a big river. Fortunately, your character along with his beloved dog has a raft that is able to wade through the river until you find a new area. When wading through the river, you can find a flow of water of varying strength, from calm to heavy. Although you can control the direction of the raft, but when it enters a heavy stream, the raft will get sluit better directed. If the raft is not well controlled and hit various elements in the river, be it rocks, drifting trees, cars, even homes, then the raft will be damaged. The more he is hit, the resistance will decrease. When the endurance runs out, which is represented by an indicator, then the raft will be destroyed and you will drown!
Therefore, you should always be nimble in controlling the raft. However, if he does get damaged, then you need to find an area that offers repair and upgrade rafts. But before, you need to prepare the material to fix it, which can only be found by exploring other areas. After that, then you can fix it or even add a variety of features in it, such as strengthening the raft, installing the motor, to add a water filter device. Keep in mind also that the area you have passed can not be re-visited. So, you will always follow the flow of the river to the more difficult terrain. On many occasions you also inevitably have to give up the targeted area because they want to collect the materials that are typical of the area. Although the area close to you will be square off with a special icon, it's still pretty hard to reach when the stream you follow does not lead to it!
Fight Hungry, Thirsty, Cold, and Tired
The battle to survive in The Flame in The Flood is the most difficult not when fighting wild animals, but when against yourself. Cruel elements faced in this game is a very difficult maturity. Every time you should always take into account when to make food, drink, protection from the cold, and most importantly, when to sleep! All that requires experience playing in advance to be mastered with advanced. That is, you must often die and lose!
The higher the difficulty level you choose when you start the game, the more difficult the challenge will be. Hunger and thirst will be more quickly appear, the more cruel nature will be in giving the disorder, crafting materials increasingly rarely encountered, until more quickly tired. If you have really mastered the easiest difficulty level or basically like hurting alias masokis, then please try the next difficulty level or play Endless mode. Returning to the fulfillment of basic needs for survival, hunger basically can be fulfilled by eating some type of crafting material. They provide the fulfillment of the need for food, but not as much as the food is processed by cooking. However, when pressed, the material can be very helpful. However, it should be noted that not all crafting materials that can be eaten is safe. Because, there are also objects that are toxic or contain parasites!
So does drinks. The water you get by picking it up from a puddle on the ground is definitely not safe to eat. In order to filter the water to be safe to drink, you can process it through crafting. However, when kepepet and life are on the verge of death, then risky consumption was forced to take. To fix this, you should immediately make a drug to eliminate the negative effects. Because, the longer you leave, then he can threaten your life!
The next threat comes from cold temperatures. The farther you step into the area where the difficulty level is higher, the temperature will be a big enemy.Similarly, if you are showering rain when exploring the area or when in a raft.To fix this, you should immediately look for warmth of fire. However, you can also overcome by upgrading clothes with thicker animal skins. Before that, of course you need to defeat the animals that have it, ranging from wolves, wild pigs, bears, to unique animals that are harder to beat, such as white wolves!
Fatigue may be the last thing you need to worry about, but forgetting it is a big mistake. Because, the more tired your character, then his view will be more blurred and unclear! In fact, when the view is obviously already quite difficult to find a threat, especially if not clear. Always take time to sleep every turn of the day, especially during the night, as many wild animals roam around at the moment. However, try also filled the stomach. Because every time you sleep, then you will be more hungry and thirsty!
Conclusion
Features that can be found in The Flame in The Flood is not so much. This game also does not offer the luxury of Open World to be explored freely. However, the challenge he was able to defeat another survival game with a great distance. If you like survival games, but also welcome with difficult open hand gameplay, then this game will accompany you in a long time!
Deficiency and Advantages
- The story is not reinforced
- Less attachment between player with character and dog
- The NPC encountered does not have a deeper impact
- Can only run on Windows 64 Bit
- Beautiful graphical display
- Soundtrack-style country music nan beautiful from Chuck Ragan
- The challenge is difficult but intriguing
- Many objects for crafting
- His world is always changing every time a new game starts
- Management needs to be carried and stored
Information Game The Flame in The Flood
- OS: Windows 7 - 64 bit (takes 64 bit OS)
- Processor: Dual Core Processor, 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX11 compatible video card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB
- Price (Steam): Rp135.999
- Developer : The Molasses Flood
- Publisher : The Molasses Flood
- Composer : Chuck Ragan
- Engine : Unreal Engine 4
- Platform : Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
- Release : WW: February 24, 2016
PlayStation 4
WW: January 17, 2017
Nintendo Switch
WW: October 12, 2017 - Genre : Roguelike, survival, adventure
- Mode : Single-player
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