It's a pretty good first person platformer/puzzle game.
What it did well is it was excellently paced, giving a nice upswing to difficulty and a Valve-like powerful conclusion at the end that incorporates some simulacrum of mirror's edge 3D fps platforming. While not especially interestingly written, was competently written and voice acted for what seems to be the product of a small studio.
The light-bar puzzles were very fun, creating platforms in a pretty interesting way, though they were fairly simple in difficulty and mechanically. It does ramp up towards the end, but not into anything really mind blowing.
The game also is very stylish. a little bland i'd say, but better than some of the other types of games I've played that are like it from smaller teams, the lesser-known ones.
One other complaint is that they don't let you forget that they wanted this to be a portal knockoff. They have references in every quarter of the game attempting to shove this into the greater HL universe and I think it was vastly to their detriment. Maybe by acknowledging it very explicitly they were trying to couch any sort of criticism that it felt too similar in terms of the plot beats, as it did feel like it was just a details changed, sloppier portal story.
Also, the game kind of wants you to root for the main bad guy. Frankly if there was an evil science lab that could save the world of its energy problem and give endlessly renewable energy at the cost of ~300 lives including my own, I'd pull that trolley lever(which, thinking about it, might have been sort of clever if they intended that comparison since the main voice, Virgil talks about a lever repeatedly at the end)
Overall, pretty good, and does some things surprisingly well especially with how lukewarm I was at the start, and worth your money or a playthrough if you got it through prime games like I did.
What it did well is it was excellently paced, giving a nice upswing to difficulty and a Valve-like powerful conclusion at the end that incorporates some simulacrum of mirror's edge 3D fps platforming. While not especially interestingly written, was competently written and voice acted for what seems to be the product of a small studio.
The light-bar puzzles were very fun, creating platforms in a pretty interesting way, though they were fairly simple in difficulty and mechanically. It does ramp up towards the end, but not into anything really mind blowing.
The game also is very stylish. a little bland i'd say, but better than some of the other types of games I've played that are like it from smaller teams, the lesser-known ones.
One other complaint is that they don't let you forget that they wanted this to be a portal knockoff. They have references in every quarter of the game attempting to shove this into the greater HL universe and I think it was vastly to their detriment. Maybe by acknowledging it very explicitly they were trying to couch any sort of criticism that it felt too similar in terms of the plot beats, as it did feel like it was just a details changed, sloppier portal story.
Also, the game kind of wants you to root for the main bad guy. Frankly if there was an evil science lab that could save the world of its energy problem and give endlessly renewable energy at the cost of ~300 lives including my own, I'd pull that trolley lever(which, thinking about it, might have been sort of clever if they intended that comparison since the main voice, Virgil talks about a lever repeatedly at the end)
Overall, pretty good, and does some things surprisingly well especially with how lukewarm I was at the start, and worth your money or a playthrough if you got it through prime games like I did.