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Speaking of which, the combat in The Falconeer can be frustrating and sometimes unfair, particularly in later chapters when swarms of enemies are taking their shots at you and health seems to disappear quickly. This is more of a laissez faire attitude to progression as The Falconeer unlocks handsome rewards for taking the time out of the main story, including various upgrades to weapons and even the war bird itself – a pro-tip – a bigger gun and a faster bird is always better than trying to learn enemy flight patterns. There are two options to consider progressing, either keep trying and inevitably fail, or exploring the world to unlock some lovely upgrades to help you on the way. While they are optional, the side missions are encouraged from the off as part way through the first chapter, the difficulty suddenly jumps. Side missions are conducted in a far looser way, and have to be sought out and discovered, in the complete opposite to Ubisoft’s ‘everything is on the map and you have to clean it up’ approach. One thing that certainly never got old was the novelty of having mission orders shouted at you through the DualSense controller – it legitimately never got old. It is a simple set up and the annoying downside to have a base of operations is that this creates a lot of back and forth, as the person dishing out the orders tells you head to point A, then point B, then back to base, which, coupled with the limited pool of mission-types that the game throws out, could easily have led to The Falconeer becoming a little repetitive in nature.Īs it happens, this repetition has been thought about and the ability to fast travel to the objective and back home again has been baked into the game from the off, and by utilising the PlayStation 5s SSD, it becomes an instantaneous jump which significantly cuts down mission times to such a manageable level that they don’t feel like a slog or become too repetitive. Each step in the story is conducted in bite sized missions, perfectly balanced in a way that provides a challenge, especially in later levels, but not so bad that if you failed a mission, twenty minutes of progression wasn’t lost because there are no mid-mission checkpoints. Starting with the main story, these are presented as missions and are found on your ‘Home perch’, an area that is in essence your base of operations, and changes with each chapter as you travel the world. This is a video game that begs to be explored from the get go and the moment the cross button is pushed to start the adventure, is when The Falconeer: Warrior edition encourages exploration. Instead, I decided to explore the world that the one man developer, Tomas Sala, had created.

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PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, PS4įor the first ten hours of The Falconeer, I accomplished barely any of the main story perhaps a couple of missions in the first chapter, but nothing more. Throughout the game’s four chapters numerous clans are encountered each similar to the last, their only desire is simply to survive against ruthless regimes and privateers, and as the titular Falconeer, your services are often called upon to help trade relations, explore new vistas or escort and protect salvage operations in an effort to create a world of peace.

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The oceanic world presented is full of mysteries and secrets to unlock, as well as action-packed battles against pirates who have taken to the skies as well as the seas to destroy anything that, well, isn’t a pirate.

The Warrior Edition comes with all current DLC and the new content, The Edge of the World baked into the game we’re not about that spoiler life so we won’t be going into the finer details of the DLC story in this review. And instead of being on rails, the bird has been unleashed to explore a fully open world known as Ursee.

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The Falconeer originally launched on Xbox Series X|S & PC in November published by Wired Productions and developed by Tomas Sala, the game is an aerial shooter in the same vein as Panzer Dragoon and Star Fox, where riding a giant bird with a laser attached to their back is the order of the day.