But the pièce de résistance is the fog of war. But the world map logs absolutely everything that you will want to come back to, and it’s incredibly easy to read: a true one-to-one with the game world. This is a game that demands to be explored, but there are so many details – so many things you can’t unlock quite yet – that it could soon become daunting. They’re pivotal to how good Nobody Saves the World feels. It’s not often that you sing the praises of a map UI and fog-of-war, but they should be held aloft like a Triforce. All of the progress you make on your characters is reflected in the map: the world grows as you do. And characters like the Mermaid – not quite as pretty as Ariel – give you access to more of the map, like a quasi-Metroidvania. But you’re also enrolling in guilds, progressing through their ranks to unlock more missions and therefore more wands too. So, you’re accumulating Wands which get you into dungeons, and those dungeons are often requirements for unlocking more of the map. There are some frankly awesome ones to beeline towards. Unlocking abilities for the Magician, say, makes them available for all the other characters, and you’re simultaneously making your way up the flow chart of character unlocks. There’s no leaning into one single OP character here: you’re going to be channel-surfing between all of them, and you soon realise that it’s the best approach anyway. You get the Wands from completing the missions from each character, so you’re encouraged to switch between them. It’s scattered with dungeons, and those dungeons might have a hard requirement of some Wands, or soft requirements of having a certain avatar level. Nobody Saves the World has a pretty big world. The layered way in which everything upgrades – one action has several reactions – means that you are constantly getting better at something, and it feels hella good.īut the genius comes from how this maps onto the, well, map. You could have given us a single room with waves of baddies to fight and we’d probably have been happy.
Each of these has different abilities, and can be levelled up through the same process that the Rat went through. Soon, you are unlocking Warriors, Horses, Necromancers, Slugs and Dragons.
Even better, you begin to move through a node map of different characters to shapeshift into. By completing little character-specific missions (Gnaw X enemies, etc), you unlock new abilities for the Rat, new missions, and you also level up your base character stats, which layer onto every character you have. This character can squeak into tight gaps, and can gnaw at enemies, giving them a poison debuff. So, you start by transforming into the Rat. You are the blank canvas for other characters to paint onto. You are the titular ‘nobody’ because Drinkbox Studios wants you to play around with its shapeshifting. As a kick up the arse to saving the world, it’s not a great one.īut over the next few hours, you see what Nobody Saves the World is doing. The lack of any kind of identity for the main character – a putty-like character with amnesia – meant there wasn’t much to hook onto either, while your objective is to find a mage called Nostramagus who can save the world. We’ve got plenty of those, thank you very much. Nobody Saves the World initially presents itself as a traditional dungeon crawler with a single attack button. Our first impressions weren’t actually that hot.
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