HIGH Finally getting to an environment that isn’t swamp or snow.
LOW The first time I fast-traveled at moderate health and got killed by enemies before the world finished loading.
WTF How does this arrangement of swamp, blazing hot coal fields, and bitterly cold snow zones even exist?
HIGH Probably the best zero-gravity controls in any game, ever.
LOW Lots and lots of repeated assets.
WTF A couple of trippy plot turns that don’t feel adequately set up.
HIGH Strong level design encourages maximum air.
LOW No Freestyle multiplayer.
WTF The whole game feels like an artifact from the early 2000s.
HIGH The new ability to rewind.
LOW Missing features between the collections.
WTF Why doesn’t Slash Man have an awesome top hat?
HIGH The no-murder ending is worth the crazy amount of work it takes to unlock.
LOW The ‘trap room’ fight. Also, the recipes for medicine can be easily missed!
WTF It answers the question ‘what if Bloodborne didn’t hate you for trying to play it?’
Gravity has had an odd place in gaming history, often serving as a secondary embellishment to the action in brawlers or platformers instead of earning its own place at the forefront as a central mechanic. Not so in Altered Matter’s puzzle-platformer Etherborn, where the entire game design revolves around the manipulation of gravity, both figuratively and literally.
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: I, Hope, developed by Kenny Roy and published by Double Plus and Good Games.
HIGH The art style is gorgeous.
LOW Once the repetition kicks in, it kicks in hard.
WTF Why is the online multiplayer locked away for so long?
HIGH Building an all-powerful Sniper Tower.
LOW Driving across the map because the game can’t adjust objectives to my base’s location.
WTF Why no update on CLEO, Undead Labs?
HIGH Perfecting the deceptively complex ‘simple combo’.
LOW Trying to figure a way around Waldstein’s incredible range.
WTF The meta-character who spends her story scenes complaining about the developers.
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