With the Nintendo Switch’s Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild setting the sales charts on fire and ushering in an open-air concept of adventuring in the open-world space, a bunch of developers do what they also do and decided to ape the concept with their own clones and pump them out on as many platforms as possible. That’s what Deep Silver is hoping to do with Slives Studios’ Windbound, which is due to drop on the PS4, Xbox One, and on PC come August 28th, 2020.
The game is more feminist propaganda, though, so if you had plans on purchasing it but didn’t want to support Liberal Progressivism, this will likely be a hard pass for you.
It features a strong, young female warrior who don’t need no man named Kara. She’s shipwrecked and stranded among an archipelago after a vicious storm separates her from her tribe.
With on weapons, tools, or food, players must guide Kara through the tropical islands to gather supplies, craft weapons, hunt for food, build a boat and brave the weather as she attempts to navigate her way back home. You can check out the trailer below.
This is the kind of the Left-wing agitprop that is subversive enough to be effective. Why? Because the game looks extremely good.
From an artistic perspective it captures the airy, timeless vibrancy that Nintendo captured with Breath of the Wild. It looks gorgeous.
The animal and creature designs distinct, and the vast draw distances give the impression of a world begging to be explored.
The gameplay combat is also more reminiscent of Guerrilla Games’ Horizon: Zero Dawn rather than Breath of the Wild, as you’ll rely on a variety of traps and different kinds of incapacitating measures to immobilize and defeat enemies.
One really enticing aspect of the game is that you have to venture throughout these different isles to gather enough supplies to build a big enough boat in order to brave the biggest of storms and return home, it’s almost quite similar to Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker but with a more pressing focus on the survival simulation elements. What’s more is that there’s an actual goal here to the survival loop, which I think is what makes the game look so appealing.
It’s just unfortunate that it’s attached to the “strong woman trope” that absolutely dominates nearly every single game on the market. I refuse to play these games anymore and I don’t even waste time looking at them on digital or physical store shelves.
Sadly, games like Windbound will continue to perpetuate the trope because – as mentioned above – if it’s as good as it looks, it will continue to placate any dissent with the promise of sound, entertaining gameplay. That’s precisely how Guerrilla Games managed to beguile so many people into supporting Horizon: Zero Dawn and its feminist messaging.
Also, don’t be shocked or surprised if Kara is yet another lesbian, because those seem to be everywhere, all the time, especially in heroic adventure games these days.
As mentioned, Windbound is due to drop on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on August 28th, 2020.