Completed with platinum trophy earned. Spectrewoods is a very short third-person "almost walking simulator" game, with the player exploring a dark wood. I bought this solely as an experiment with the new PlayStation Stars scheme, and about the best that I can say about it is that it served that purpose, as as a game it's frankly extremely poor. Presented with heavily pixelated graphics, restricted to a small box in the middle of the screen, the game provides no indication of your objective and I spent a good few minutes aimlessly wandering the near-featureless 'wood' before quitting, restarting and then noticing a patch of flowers that appears with an extremely short draw distance, which it turns out that you're expected to follow. Doing so ends the first stage within about a minute, taking you to an equally short second stage, only this time with a handful of ghost enemies that you need to shoot; a third stage then provides a few seconds of supposed narrative before it's all over, a total of less than five minutes flat. But hey, there's a platinum trophy here, so I guess that's something...

Reviewed on Oct 17, 2022


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