As a part of my job right here at 148Apps, I typically discover video games I’ve no intention of reviewing or in any other case writing about. A part of having the ability to provide substantial criticism or perspective on cell video games is to know lots of what’s on the market, even when I do not find yourself turning these experiences into content material or critique.
I went into Chimeraland absolutely anticipating to simply dip my toe in to know what it’s earlier than transferring on, but it surely did not take lengthy to understand this sport is… exceptional, to say the least. Though it largely purports to be an open-world survival rpg (which it largely is, by the best way), it additionally appear devoted to being as unusual and unwieldy as doable. It is an enormous obtain with an nearly minute lengthy preliminary load (on an iPad Professional, even), and throughout my first hour with the sport I had a tough time making sense of a lot of what was occurring. Take a look at the video above to see what I am speaking about.
After I say “unusual,” I additionally do not imply a type of endearing method to a particular aesthetic of taste of oddness. Chimeraland is a chaotic mashup of shark folks, weapons, MMO tropes, and 1,000 different totally different ins and outs that really feel utterly disconnected save for the truth that all of them exist inside this single sport. One minute you are diving by means of the air–battle royale style–and within the subsequent you hop right into a magical arcade cupboard to do goal taking pictures with an computerized crossbow.
All of that is directed by a fairy who feeds you an exhaustive set of tutorials that train you find out how to interact with all the things Chimeraland has to supply. At no level is it fully clear why any of these items exists, although, or why it issues. It simply seems like a clump of online game issues to do crammed in a world that really seems to be and seems like it’s bursting on the seams.
I can not say I believe Chimeraland is an gratifying sport given the time I’ve spent with it, however it’s completely fascinating. It is such an extra of disjointed online game duties and programs with no obvious imaginative and prescient that it nearly feels prefer it was constructed by an AI. I can not cease eager about its buckwild character creator or how random cutscenes interrupt your tutorial to principally repeat the tutorial textual content to you. For causes like this, I spent a day engrossed in what’s in any other case sort of miserably tedious-playing sport, and thought you need to possibly learn about it in case you need to peek at one of the crucial baffling video games to ever grace the App Retailer.
