played for about an hour last night before i went to bed. wandered around starting planet, collected some shit and fixed my ship, then spent about 15 minutes in my ship. it's ok so far. my biggest complaint is that it so far feels like the game is...i dunno, crafting just for the sake of crafting, if that makes any sense? i mean i guess that's technically true of any video game with crafting in it, but this kinda feels like crafting is the game, and everything else is just facilitating that. like minecraft has lots of crafting, but the crafting facilitates construction and creativity and the rest of the stuff that the game is about. this feels kinda like crafting is only going to facilitate CRAFTING LVL 2 ITEMS so that i can then build the shit i need to CRAFT LVL 3 ITEMS OMG and so on and so on.
but i'm only an hour in, so that obviously could all change very rapidly. just my initial impression. i think in general i may just be getting crabby toward "create your own lore!" games. i don't wanna create my own lore in a video game. i want to explore your world, not write it. i suck at writing.
That seems to be my general impression from the gameplay footage I saw as well, but it's also worth noting just how long gathering takes in this game. I watched a streamer mine the same node for ten straight minutes and then move on to the next node to do the same thing. And that's essentially what your entire objective boils down to, you mine minerals so you can go mine better minerals.
I dunno, it looks like it gets dull really, really fast. Even the actual space travel parts seem to be there just to fast travel between planets. Sure, it's cool that you can do that seamlessly, but it's nothing you couldn't do from a menu, and that's pretty depressing.