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It’s a pretty episodic framework by the time you get well into it, but there’s reasons for that I won’t go into here. It’s cute, quirky, not afraid to spend plenty of time setting up characters just to move on to the next town and never see them again.

Add in the slow build of clues about Sam’s pod-child origins and you’ve got the makings of a great little story. As the miasma follows you and towns in your wake fall silent, there’s a sinister edge to things. Seems maybe the mayor was protecting his town from something after all. They get embroiled in each town’s story, helping out and making friends, but also encountering and investigating the sinister miasma – a black fog that rolls across the surface world and kills on contact. This is not much of a punishment, and so begins their adventure, riding the rails from town to town, exploring a post-apocalyptic world. However, with their new knowledge, they are now a threat to the town and are banished, thrown on a train going Eastward from which no one ever returns. Sam lives with John who takes care of her as her guardian, but when they venture through the Ancient Ruins (an abandoned shopping centre above the station) they find the way out of their tiny world. Ruled over by a tyrant mayor, no one is allowed to even mention the world above let alone leave. The story starts in Potcrock Isle, but don’t be fooled by its name it’s an underground Fallout-type bunker town that resembles an old train station.

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Like Ellie she has a destiny – the opening movie shows John finding her in a pod, and it’s clear even in the opening chapters that there is plenty afoot that involves the little energy child more than anyone could suspect.

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Its two leads, John and Sam, are shoe-ins for Joel and Ellie respectively, but by way of a Japanese anime John is a bearded stoic silent protagonist, proficient in frying pans and getting the job done and his charge, Sam, is essentially a magical girl anime trope, full of boundless energy and curiosity.

It’s an epic adventure, but one that doesn’t rely on a large party, instead framing itself much closer to The Last Of Us. It’s an action RPG, but eschews most of the genre mechanics in favour of simple Zelda-type combat. But is it all just shiny pixels, or is there substance at the end of the line? The Finger Guns Review.Įastward to the uninitiated, is a little hard to pigeonhole. Long-awaited, delightful pixelart adventure Eastward is finally here. But is it all just shiny pixels, or is there substance at the end of the line? The Finger Guns Review: