The summary of ‘I've Played 50 Hours of Enshrouded – Review’

The YouTube video discusses the game Enshrouded, focusing on its expansive world, combat mechanics, exploration elements, and RPG progression. The game features various locations, NPCs, quests, crafting systems, diverse biomes, and a strategic Shroud system. NPCs play vital roles in crafting and progression, with unique abilities and upgrades. Base building, gear sets, skills, and a skill tree tailored to play styles enrich the gameplay experience. Combat includes melee, ranged, and magic attacks accessible to all players, with flexible character customization and cooperative multiplayer. Despite some concerns about balance and boss battles, the overall impression is positive, with the game being considered a standout title of the year.

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In this segment of the video, the reviewer discusses their positive experience playing the game Enshrouded, highlighting its large world, variety of locations, combat mechanics, and emphasis on exploration and discovery reminiscent of games like Valheim and Skyrim. Enshrouded is described as a Survival action RPG where players start with minimal items and are guided to gather resources, build a base, explore caves and ruins, and engage in combat. The main story quest introduces players to key elements of the game such as saving NPCs, constructing buildings, and exploring different locations for resources and upgrades. The game’s mechanics, progression, and rewarding exploration are key features emphasized in this summary.

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In this segment of the video, the player is introduced to the concept of towers, which when climbed, provide loot and unlock Fast Travel locations. The main objectives in the game involve locating NPCs, completing quests, clearing shroud Roots, activating flame sanctums and shrines, and ascending ancient spires. The player is encouraged to explore the world, engage in tasks related to progressing the game systems, craft, upgrade their alter, and build a base. The game features static world generation with settlements, dungeons, outposts, unique bosses, mini dungeons like Berry tombs, traps, puzzles, and loot. The player has the freedom to pace their progression through the vast world filled with content and exploration opportunities.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various locations players will encounter while exploring the game world, including camps, farms, caves, ruins, and more. In addition to quests from NPCs and the main story, players will find pages and scrolls that provide lore and lead to new points of interest. Other key points of interest include ancient spires, ancient vaults with puzzles, elixir wells for combat, shroud routs to clear fog, and ancient obelisks revealing specific points of interest. The landscape consists of different biomes, with regions ranging from rolling hills to dense woodlands and deserts. Exploration is further divided into highland areas for free-roaming and lowland valleys enveloped in thick fog, requiring players to manage limited time in these regions using hourglass capsules, flame altars, potions, and gear. The shrouded areas make up around a fourth of the gameplay space, adding urgency and strategic gameplay elements to the exploration experience.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses spending time in higher land regions and periodically entering the Shroud to clear Elixir Wells and accomplish certain quest objectives. The gameplay primarily involves exploration above the Shroud regions, utilizing movement abilities like double jump, grapple hook, and glide. The world consists of destructible voxels, allowing for creative ways to navigate and explore, such as breaking through walls or climbing hills. The game offers freedom of exploration with diverse points of interest, biomes, and the addition of the Shroud system. NPCs play a key role in the crafting system, starting with on-the-go field crafting and progressing to setting up workbenches to unlock additional tools. Interacting with NPCs unlocks new crafting options, aids in overall progression, and involves quests that lead to discovering new locations, collecting loot, and upgrading stations. NPCs provide hints on finding new resources and point out points of interest, rewarding players with weapon upgrades, new tools, building blocks, and other useful items. The Blacksmith NPC introduces players to basic crafting mechanics and metal tools, weapons, and armor.

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In this segment of the video, the narrator discusses the different NPCs in the game including the blacksmith, alchemist, hunter, farmer, and carpenter. Each NPC has a specific role in crafting weapons, armor, potions, hides, and more. The segment also covers base building using the construction hammer to create various structures like walls, floors, and stairs. Comfort within the base is emphasized as it boosts stamina and regeneration. Upgrading the flame altar is highlighted as crucial for progression, allowing for expanded base building and fast travel to different locations once unlocked.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various aspects of the game’s progression and RPG systems. They mention the gear slots available like helm, chest, gloves, pants, and feet, along with accessories such as grappling hooks and gliders. The gear comes in sets with bonuses tailored to specific play styles. Weapon rarities include white, blue, purple, and gold, with unique, named items always in gold and offering valuable upgrades. The game features consumables for buffs, a variety of resources for crafting, and a skill tree with different sections focusing on melee, ranged, and magic abilities. Players must make decisions on which abilities to unlock as they progress through the game.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses Enshrouded’s skill tree, highlighting the importance of the double jump skill. They express that the double jump skill should be a baseline ability due to its significance in navigating the world efficiently. The speaker then goes on to explain the different types of nodes in the skill tree, such as major nodes that unlock significant abilities, medium nodes offering useful buffs, and small nodes providing stat boosts. They emphasize the importance of these nodes and how they contribute to character development. Additionally, the speaker praises the game’s world and exploration mechanics, highlighting the multiple traversal options available to players, including climbing, double jumping, grappling, and gliding. They appreciate the creative exploration opportunities and the diverse locations and objectives in the game. The speaker also mentions that combat in the game is well-executed, despite its simplicity, with basic attack, block, parry, and dodge mechanics that provide an engaging experience.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the enjoyable combat system in the game involving melee, ranged, and magic attacks that are accessible to all players regardless of their build. They highlight the depth of the progression system, allowing players to explore various skill tree paths and hybrid builds. The speaker appreciates the flexibility in character customization through different armor sets catering to different playstyles such as tanky, aggressive, magic, or melee-focused.

Additionally, the speaker praises the cooperative gameplay experience, noting that the game supports up to 16 players per server. They suggest that playing with friends adds an extra layer of fun. However, the speaker raises concerns about game balance, mentioning that some enemies, especially the green Berserker type, are significantly harder than others. They also critique the boss battles, noting that they can feel imbalanced based on player level. Lastly, they mention the ability to cheese boss fights by exploiting the game’s freedom of movement, which, while convenient, may make fights feel less satisfying. Despite these critiques, the speaker expresses a strong liking for the game, considering it one of their favorite titles of the year so far.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker suggests that certain skills, like the double jump, should be baseline abilities for all players in the game. They express a desire for PvP to be added in the future, highlighting the potential for fun due to the game’s variety. The speaker acknowledges the lack of depth in the game’s story and narrative but overall has enjoyed the game and plans to continue playing, even starting a new save upon the game’s official launch.