Just finished playing through Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, which I picked up in the most recent Steam sale. Played through it on Normal, took me roughly 9 hours to complete. For 5$ I'm not going to complain, the main campaign in Enslaved was enjoyable enough to play through from start to finish, although the ending was pretty terrible and since I didn't particularly care for Pigsy I dunno how much of the DLC, Pigsy's Top 10, I'll bother to play through. The gameplay in the DLC is a bit different, Pigsy has to rely more on stealth, gadgets and putting distance between himself and the mechs in order to snipe them safely but Pigsy's Top 10 is also kind of boring and ridiculous. Pigsy is trying to build a new best friend.
Enslaved sort of reminds me of a PS2 era action-adventure game, like Primal. The world and characters are somewhat interesting, while the gameplay is passable. It doesn't do anything exceedingly well, nor does it do anything objectively terrible. It sort of is a game long escort mission and at no real point did Trip feel annoying or like a burden. If Enslaved did anything interesting I guess it was the interaction between Trip and Monkey to traverse through the environments and working your way past or to enemy encounters. The combat is simple but satisfying, there are unlockables for Monkey's abilities but the combat never really gains any great complexity. Enslaved is pretty much an auto-platformer (hyper linear path with highlighted points of interaction), so if you're sick of platformers like this, you probably won't dig Enslaved. The interaction between Trip and Monkey is pretty simple and limited (4 actions handled by the Left Bumper) but it was also very buggy when trying to complete certain puzzles that required Monkey requesting Trip complete a specific action. I got stuck at 3 points in the game where I had to reset back to a checkpoint so I could complete a puzzle, that was pretty damned annoying.
I'd say Enslaved worth picking up for 5-10$. It's a decent weekend distraction. Definitely feels like a one and done experience to me, don't think I'll bother to replay it.
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