![]() Lots of things you might eat can make you sick, however, for which you need to use the game's crafting system to prepare a stomach-cleansing tonic.īy the end of the game, you realize that although a lot of things are happening on Rock Island, they're not all interrelated. Thirst is a lesser issue since most houses have running water. Late in one of my attempts, I had to fashion a fishing pole and go fishing-fending off hostile elk and lighting sticks on fire to stay warm-just to avoid dying of hunger. As the game goes along, however, food becomes more and more scarce, all the island's animals turn against you, and you suffer frostbite as you desperately move from place to place. You don't quite sense this in the early hours, when you're picking up plentiful ears of corn and fending off wild dogs with a stick. Defender has a surprisingly robust survival game buried beneath its adventure and RPG trappings. ![]() My previous entries on the game under-emphasized some of the more important elements of gameplay, partly because it's not a style of game that I usually encounter, and partly because those elements don't become fully revealed until later. ![]()
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