Farlands Design Den's video: Hardland: A Surreal Fantasy Adventure GAME DESIGNER REVIEWS

This video has been requested by the patron Imxset21. Thank you for your support and incredibly generous donation, I hope you will enjoy the video! Professional Game Designer Stanislav Costiuc (Watch Dogs Legion, Trials Rising) reviews Hardland, developed by Mountain Sheep. Hardland is a massive, sprawling open-world game the central conceit of which is absence of quest logs and markers. Certainly an intriguing concept, but does it succeed? And how does it handle the problems quest logs and markers were meant to solve? Enjoy my critiques? Check the other videos I have on the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Farlands?sub_confirmation=1 Support my Patreon campaign, it helps out a ton! https://www.patreon.com/farlands Alternatively, you can join my channel as a YouTube member with the same perks! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmGmd4K-Kv17fu0TMJ5Z0A/join And if you use Twitter, you can follow me here: https://twitter.com/farlander1991 00:00 - Introduction 03:04 - Design - Solving Problems 04:40 - Design - Unsolved Problems 06:06 - Design - Immersive and Not as Much Questing 09:02 - Design - Supporting Systems 12:25 - Context 15:27 - Aesthetics 17:13 - Cohesion 18:52 - Emotions 20:27 - Stasocritic Score