Between its charismatic animation, beautifully melodic score, and densely detailed environments, it’s hard to overstate just how good of an impression Eastward makes in its opening hours, if you happen to have an affinity for its key inspirations. The characters the pair meet are often out-sized and charming in their own ways, but it’s the world of Eastward that is the true draw here, and the endless pull of the game’s beautiful artistic direction is a major element of what continued to pull me along its path. Sam is the voice of the duo and reacts to the world above-ground with wide-eyed amazement and whether it’s cooking a delicious banquet for a crime boss or riding a burned-out truck down white-water rapids, she meets basically any situation with an optimistic determination. Sam is a girl of mysterious origin, discovered somewhere within the ruins of the old world in a kind of status pod, and John, well, John seems to have taken all the work that’d go into talking and instead put it into being really good at killing things (and cooking).Īfter the two begin to chafe against the insular, Plato’s cave-esque dwellings of Potrock Isle, they’re cast out to the post-apocalyptic surface world, careening along a still surviving railway system.
It has the odd, vibrant cast of characters the keen sense of adventure and mystery and the central relationship between a person who speaks way too much and a person who won’t say a word propelling the whole thing forward.īeginning in the underground hovel town of Potrock Isle, you’re introduced to the headstrong yet friendly Sam, and her mute father figure John. As an extremely handsome homage to games like Earthbound and early The Legend of Zelda titles, Eastward plays all the notes of iconic top-down RPGs we’ve seen before. Nostalgia is the fuel of a game like Eastward.
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