Im a big fan of 80s music and nostalgia so i was naturally drawn to this game when it came out on Xbox Game Pass.
I just finished it today but i realise that although logically I should, i just dont love this game at all.
I dont like the overarching story and how it's presented by technobabble in 80% …
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Im a big fan of 80s music and nostalgia so i was naturally drawn to this game when it came out on Xbox Game Pass.
I just finished it today but i realise that although logically I should, i just dont love this game at all.
I dont like the overarching story and how it's presented by technobabble in 80% of the game. Some of the writing also felt really pretentious to me.
The gameplay is mainly broken down to exploration and combat. Exploration was ok, the best part was seeing the beautiful world the designers came up with. The platforming was not good because the controls are quite drifty. It just manages to get the job done.
Combat is pretty easy at first but ramps up in difficulty drastically at the end. I find that this is a feature in most indie games, its like they dont know how to ease the player into the level they want for the final boss fights. The boss fights were unmemorable except for the fact that they were annoying. Theyre not super difficult but the controls of this game isnt tight enough to pull off some of the things expected of the player. The healing mechanism takes too long too.
In short, the only thing that made me finish this game was the music and visuals which are really top notch. 10/10.
Everything else is just mediocre and if a sequel comes up, which seems very likely, i think i will skip that and just look for their soundtrack on Youtube.
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