I feel pretty harsh for rating this so low... clearly a lot of love has gone into this game from a developer who wants to share their passion for early 3D platforming. Each individual level has been crafted with care to pay homage to different games/subgenres from the 90s, and the worlds, character designs and animations all ooze charm.
Unfortunately Macbat very much takes the warts and all approach to that era of gaming; in particular, the camera controls are absolutely diabolical, to the extent that many of the full 3D areas are pretty much unplayable. But even with that taken away, most of the levels end up having seemingly no gameplay to speak of; the few instances of platforming challenge in the game don't really pose any challenge at all, and nor do the puzzles if you take the time to talk to the NPCs who will all be too happy to solve them for you.
In general, I really do like this kind of bitesize charming 90s throwback, but there are just too many issues in the way of this one for me and the game as a whole is very unfocussed by design. I am glad Siactro managed to fix the things I took issue with in their later games!
Unfortunately Macbat very much takes the warts and all approach to that era of gaming; in particular, the camera controls are absolutely diabolical, to the extent that many of the full 3D areas are pretty much unplayable. But even with that taken away, most of the levels end up having seemingly no gameplay to speak of; the few instances of platforming challenge in the game don't really pose any challenge at all, and nor do the puzzles if you take the time to talk to the NPCs who will all be too happy to solve them for you.
In general, I really do like this kind of bitesize charming 90s throwback, but there are just too many issues in the way of this one for me and the game as a whole is very unfocussed by design. I am glad Siactro managed to fix the things I took issue with in their later games!