Austin can finally recommend: Wayfinder (1.0 Review)

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Wayfinder has been on one hell of a journey, but it's emerged from it leaner and better than it ever could have been as a live service. This is the sort of comeback story that very, very few studios are capable of pulling off.

Video written, voiced and edited by Austin B.

#Wayfinder #AirshipSyndicate #Review
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[Curlscurly]

As one of the many devs on this game, thank you for your video and covering Wayfinder. And thank you to everyone in the comments. It means the world to us reading how supportive everyone is and appreciating what we put into this game.

[x_data_x]

I’ve been enjoying 1.0 a lot. Anyone out there who has ever thought “man I with I could just pay once for all this stuff in this gacha/free-to-play ARPG that I really like, ” this is for you. No time gated crafting, microtransactions, just all the fun stuff for half the price of a AAA game.

[spiekerboxx]

Airship Syndicate deserves all the praise. Great studio and I hope to see them do more in the future.

[TomatePasFraiche]

Alright boys, time to support a deserving game dev, let’s jump in!

[QuangNguyenNgocThieu]

I've been playing it since its 1.0 launch. I love that this feels like an mmorpg... but without the daily hassles. Joe Mad's artstyle is always crazy good. What a blast!

[Aves_]

It really sucks that leadership taking paycuts to help their company is such a rarity.

If a company is in trouble, the first people to take a hit should be those who manage it, not the ground workers

[tylerloconte]

I absolutely love how very clearly taking Digital Extremes business model out of the game dramatically improved the game.

[gladiatorscoops]

Joe Madureira is an absolute genuis artist, no wonder this looks so good from an art direction POV

[aformist]

2:53 As soon as you said "the game no longer needs an online connection to play, " this game went from something I'd never even bothered to look at to a game I plan on at least demoing. It's not that hard to make players happy if you do the right things!

[psyberiusblack]

I was just complaining that nobody was covering 1.0 a couple days ago. This game is quite good and deserves more recognition!

[jeremehiestand]

I've logged hundreds of hours since day one of early access and i agree with every pro/con you brought up.
Airship Syndicate is my 2nd favorite indie dev ( right behind Supergiant <3 ) and they deserve SO much praise for the glow-up they gave this game. Wayfinder is criminally underappreciated for this price point. Go give it a try and THANK YOU Skill Up team for giving it a fair shake @ 1.0.

[kaliban]

First of all, play this game - it's great fun.

In case you're not aware, in terms of playing other characters: you can switch character in game, you don't start a new run or campaign. Just go to the character screen, select character, then you are now that character. It's so good to be able to switch to another character to do a dungeon, or try a new weapon combo.

Also, the customisable house is a lot of fun. Collecting items out in the world then decorating your house is great, lots of freedom of how you can place stuff too.

[freshlymemed]

This sounds like a blast to play with friends and without any of the live-service drawbacks. Hope the devs get enough support after everything that happened, I'm definitely putting this on my wishlist.

[CHEFPKR]

So glad they went this direction! Can't wait to jump in.

[Alexisonscope]

Super positive review, really happy you guys covered this one. The video already has 30, 000 views - let’s hope it drives some sales to what seems to be (now) a pretty great game.

[arthurcatrambone]

I’m glad y’all came back to this, with how bleak some gaming news has been this year seeing this rise from the ashes is great to hear

[JamesOKeefe-US]

Always appreciate your perspective and detailed reviews Austin. Appreciate you and Ralph so much! BTW, the editing at 2:15 was awesome. Love this channel !

[blarghchan]

it's on sale for 20 bucks on PS5. Looks like exactly the kind of groove I'm looking for.

[zeroichi]

I'm happy they finally landed on their feet with this 1.0. And I'll happily support this game because the ARPG looks really fun to me.

[CoreIdeas]

I am SO happy Austin got around to this. I've been playing 1.0 since launch and I can't put it down. Already got 60 hours. It's a new favorite for sure.