I had, maybe, more expectations than I should in this game. It’s not a completely bad game, but it has a some very important things that made my experience playing it not so pleasant.
Let’s go with the good first, then the bad.
The Good
• The game looks pretty. The Icelandic-looking landscapes look beautiful. Altough after the first hours, they start looking repetitive. The visuals look good too. For an indie game, it has really good looking graphics. The light and glowing effects look good onscreen.
• The music is nice, and goes well with the atmosphere of the game. Altough after a while starts to sound a bit generic, but it’s still nice background music.
• The lack of written text can be good and bad at the same time. I think it’s good that they tried to tell a full story only through gameplay, icons, graphics, wall drawings, etc. Altough, often times I was a bit lost about what was happening in the story. But I think they deserve the credit for trying.
The Bad
• The controls and movements are really bad. But I mean really, really bad. More than once I found myself falling, having to try again and again a specific jump or puzzle, because the little fox would go or jump anywhere expect for where I was trying to move. I mean, I didn’t expect amazing controls and movements, but they were so bad that I considering abandoning the game specifically for this (a bit extreme of me? Maybe)
• The game trust too much in it’s good-looking aspect. And by doing so, the gameplay and story can get a bit boring and repetitive. You keep playing it because the game looks nice, but not because it’s entertaining. The landscapes, while still beautiful, are a bit empty and repetitive after a while.
Let’s go with the good first, then the bad.
The Good
• The game looks pretty. The Icelandic-looking landscapes look beautiful. Altough after the first hours, they start looking repetitive. The visuals look good too. For an indie game, it has really good looking graphics. The light and glowing effects look good onscreen.
• The music is nice, and goes well with the atmosphere of the game. Altough after a while starts to sound a bit generic, but it’s still nice background music.
• The lack of written text can be good and bad at the same time. I think it’s good that they tried to tell a full story only through gameplay, icons, graphics, wall drawings, etc. Altough, often times I was a bit lost about what was happening in the story. But I think they deserve the credit for trying.
The Bad
• The controls and movements are really bad. But I mean really, really bad. More than once I found myself falling, having to try again and again a specific jump or puzzle, because the little fox would go or jump anywhere expect for where I was trying to move. I mean, I didn’t expect amazing controls and movements, but they were so bad that I considering abandoning the game specifically for this (a bit extreme of me? Maybe)
• The game trust too much in it’s good-looking aspect. And by doing so, the gameplay and story can get a bit boring and repetitive. You keep playing it because the game looks nice, but not because it’s entertaining. The landscapes, while still beautiful, are a bit empty and repetitive after a while.