The concept is brilliant, the art direction is wonderful, the world design is engrossing, the music is enchanting, but fucking hell if it isn't all completely ruined by how blatantly unfinished this is. I held off playing this for a year because of how terrible it was at launch (audio barely worked, constant stuttering, etc) and now it's slightly better, but it's still a complete embarrassment. The sound still stutters randomly, lights flicker, pop in is a constant issue. The glider feels awful to control, the smallest bump will send it spinning away, a jump will catapult it head first into the ground. If it gets stuck in a pit it is now permanently stuck in the pit until you fast travel away.

Worst of all, the game runs like shit. You can chuck it on the lowest graphics setting and certain areas will still tank the frame rate to a laughable extent, and I don't know why! I've got a decent computer, I can run other stuff fine, the graphical style should be the opposite of demanding, but it somehow runs worse than Cyberpunk. How?

The worst thing is that there is a good game in here. I just wish they finished it.

Reviewed on Oct 10, 2022


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