So basically, a AA studio, combined with a publisher that is still currently being sued by Nintendo, managed to make a game that Ubisoft spent half a billion dollars and a decade to fail at making.
In other news:
I've been playing this game all week. It's amazing! Exactly the kind of pirate game I want to play.
It's basically Enshrouded, but pirates in the 1700s instead of a magic/fantasy world. It's base-building with quests and adventures. And your can sail ships, battle other ships, build your own ships, etc. which is like Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, but way better.
I bought the soundtrack for the game on Steam and the entire second disc is just sea shanties! The first disc is the first four sea shanties spiced up with instrumentals for the trailers. Even when I'm not playing this game, I'm rocking this soundtrack while I'm working on my computer.
I'm really enjoying this game. I'm considering reviewing it for my "random screenshots of my games" series. It's about time I wrote another one of those.