Sable

Pros

• This looks so cool, it reminds me to this game called Sable.
• Sable is one of my favourite indie games ever. The exploration is incredibly good and the world looks great and has a lot of thought put into it. It also has surprisingly strong writing (whenever there is writing) and feels thematically...
• It is an amazingly atmospheric game. I rrally wish morr games took an stylized approach to their graphics instead of going for realism or anime-ness most of the time.
• Sable was one of my favorite game I played on 2023, and in hindsight it made me realize I would have liked Breath of the wild more without combat. I loved how radical it was and how you understood how aspect of the culture emerged by exp...
• I looooove this game so much. Exploration, environmental storytelling, gorgeous non-photorealistic art, great music, and minimalistic but thoughtful writing are all things I look for in games. Sable is not going to be for everyone but it...

Cons

• I really wanted to like this game, but I ultimately couldn't enjoy an exploration game where the exploration felt so bad mechanically. Climbing felt soooo broken and inconsistent, which really frustrated me. Even the hover bike would fli...
• Disappointingly, I had to stop playing it as the framerate drops were causing me to get really annoying headaches. I do suffer from motion sickness but have never experienced it when playing even single player games so I was really shock...
• The exploration is so amazing, the world is beautiful. The soundtrack by Japanese Breakfast which is an artist I love. But the performance kept me from finishing it. It broke immersion so badly. :(
• I love the floating mechanic. I love the aesthetic. I love the vibes. But the performance hits can be frustrating.
• This is, as most people would expect based on a first impression, one of those vibe games. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but what drew me in is obviously the Moebius inspired cel-shaded aesthetic and the music from Japanese Breakfast...