Seven: The Days Long Gone 2018 Review

Seven: The Days long Gone is an open world isometric RPG set in a mix of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk environment and magic. You can think of it as Dishonored in 2D.

You play as the Master Thief Teriel tasked to investigate and explore ruins, dungeons, jungles, and fortresses. The main part of the game starts on The Prison island of Peh. The world is really huge, there are lots of areas to explore, hidden areas, hidden bosses, secrets, puzzles to uncover. The game doesn't really hold your hand and take you where you need to go. You're free to explore the map from the start of the main game. 

There's a lot of things going on in the game that wasn't explained so you really have to pay attention and struggle a bit when trying to figure out the use of the loots you find from enemies and crates. At first, I tried to get as many loot as I can but it didn't really matter since you have to get recipes first before you're able to craft something worthwhile. Another thing is the factions, there are several of them that you would encounter but there weren't much rewards to side with anyone of them. 

Progression in this game isn't tied with experience points or levels. After progressing the main quests, Nectars will be introduced and you will be able to detect them when you're near one which will allow you to equip passives and active skills to your slots. There are very few selection of equipment which made me think if they really need equipment loots. The default armor was the same set I had equipped all throughout the whole game. Armor sets with higher defenses lower your movespeed and enemies doesnt really hurt that much even bosses. You could carry full armor sets of enemies and use it as a disguise but I find it tedious so I went thru the regular sneaky tactics. 

Side quests are quite intriguing at times but some would require you to go from end to another end of the map just to speak to an NPC for a sec and ask you to go to the other end of the map. Some of the quests were bugged and you have to deal with it displayed on your quest log for the whole game.

Overall a great game and worth your time. Exploring sci-fi cyberpunk magic-infused ruins are something you won't see from popular RPGs and the story is not from a generic template which will also take your actions or decisions into account.