This is the worst game I've ever played, period. I've never been more bored, angry, and disgusted at a game in my life. Literally everything that could be wrong with a game is on display here. I can't think of a single redeeming quality about Felix the Reaper.
1. The art style is atrocious. It actually makes me cringe looking at it. And not because there's some violence in the game's cutscenes. The models are just genuinely gross to look at. I have no idea how a group of people could work on making these models for so long and think that they were making something nice to look at. The only decent one is Felix. All of the side characters are gross.
2. The music is unbearably bad, which is unfortunate because the game was meant to take a bunch of local unknown composers and put their work on display in the game. So it makes me sad to say that about two tracks are even listenable, and the rest are horrible. At least the game lets you pick whatever music track you want on each level, so I wasn't forced to listen to awful music, but you can probably imagine I went slowly insane listening to the same 1-2 tracks over and over and over again while playing this game.
3. The gameplay is AWFUL, both in design and the actual loop itself. First of all, the puzzle design is absolutely horrid. With the environment design and camera present, the levels are extremely unclear on how to be solved. Secondly, for some fucking reason, you move UNGODLY SLOW, so doing ANYTHING is a slog, and when you're trying to solve a puzzle, having to deal with the awful movement is genuinely infuriating. Imagine my shock when I found out there was a TIME TRIAL MODE that is REQUIRED if you want all of the achievements, when maneuvering around the level is so bad in the first place. The game also lets you make moves that shouldn't be allowed, move all the way to the spot that you can't reach, and then tell you you can't reach it, instead of just NOT doing any of that, all while having Felix do the slowest and most obnoxious animations the entire time, so even just doing trial and error is fucking awful.
This game was so bad that I just used a walkthrough to get through the second half of the game because I just couldn't take it anymore. And then, when I was trying to get the last two achievements, I found out that it was ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THEM, because the game does not provide you with the necessary resources to unlock the last few time trials, a bug that existed in the game for YEARS. I think it has finally been fixed more recently, but I played the game on Game Pass, when it was free, and the achievements had a 0.00% completion rate because of this bug. So, even after all the suffering I went through, I couldn't get all of the achievements, and lord knows I am not gonna pay to get those last two NOW.
Long story short, I have no idea how a modern game like this exists. A failure at every single level - gameplay, design, art, music - nothing is redeemable. Never play this game.
1. The art style is atrocious. It actually makes me cringe looking at it. And not because there's some violence in the game's cutscenes. The models are just genuinely gross to look at. I have no idea how a group of people could work on making these models for so long and think that they were making something nice to look at. The only decent one is Felix. All of the side characters are gross.
2. The music is unbearably bad, which is unfortunate because the game was meant to take a bunch of local unknown composers and put their work on display in the game. So it makes me sad to say that about two tracks are even listenable, and the rest are horrible. At least the game lets you pick whatever music track you want on each level, so I wasn't forced to listen to awful music, but you can probably imagine I went slowly insane listening to the same 1-2 tracks over and over and over again while playing this game.
3. The gameplay is AWFUL, both in design and the actual loop itself. First of all, the puzzle design is absolutely horrid. With the environment design and camera present, the levels are extremely unclear on how to be solved. Secondly, for some fucking reason, you move UNGODLY SLOW, so doing ANYTHING is a slog, and when you're trying to solve a puzzle, having to deal with the awful movement is genuinely infuriating. Imagine my shock when I found out there was a TIME TRIAL MODE that is REQUIRED if you want all of the achievements, when maneuvering around the level is so bad in the first place. The game also lets you make moves that shouldn't be allowed, move all the way to the spot that you can't reach, and then tell you you can't reach it, instead of just NOT doing any of that, all while having Felix do the slowest and most obnoxious animations the entire time, so even just doing trial and error is fucking awful.
This game was so bad that I just used a walkthrough to get through the second half of the game because I just couldn't take it anymore. And then, when I was trying to get the last two achievements, I found out that it was ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THEM, because the game does not provide you with the necessary resources to unlock the last few time trials, a bug that existed in the game for YEARS. I think it has finally been fixed more recently, but I played the game on Game Pass, when it was free, and the achievements had a 0.00% completion rate because of this bug. So, even after all the suffering I went through, I couldn't get all of the achievements, and lord knows I am not gonna pay to get those last two NOW.
Long story short, I have no idea how a modern game like this exists. A failure at every single level - gameplay, design, art, music - nothing is redeemable. Never play this game.