Recent reviews by Reyos

I am returning this game.

While it claims to support Index, Vive and Oculus, it really, REALLY is only made for Vive. It even tried to map vive textures onto the controller objects the index puts in game, with ugly results. The controls don't at all match what the game says they are, and the differences are completely nonsensical. It took me most of my attempted play time to figure out that when the game wanted you to press "A" that mean't pulling the right stick down.

If they recognised the VR system being used and mapped to it, the game probably would be great, I have been playing Zen's pinball FX series for years and love them, but this is just unplayable on index.

Some of the choices made for sake of being artistic were pretty bad for the game itself. No lore exposition, which is pretty bad for a metroidvania game, and I got game "complete" in under an hour of play where the game just turns around and makes you go back through the same thing but harder in reverse.

The mechanics are not very well explained anywhere, the only reason I know the enemies are supposed to be some kind of ghosts is because it's what they are called in the achievement, and the enemies feel forced with the platforming, the difficulty curve is forced not something enjoyable.

It's not a good game, and even though I got it 80% off I may have overpaid.

The music is great, the images used are very nice too, but the game itself isn't that good. You can only color in a spot with the right color, this lets you just hold the mouse button and scribble over the whole canvas for each color in turn and finish the games without precision mattering at all.

The game is just bad.

Controls are wonky, some times the game seems to just ignore inputs, which makes the problem of how easy it is to get stun locked to death by the most basic of enemies far worse. Climbing was implemented terribly. There's a bug in the resolution that sets full screen size to 0 x some number in the billions I think, which makes it actually display like the screen resolutions are in double digits - not excusable in something over a decade old.

Once upon a time game speed was tied to processor speed of the system - back then hardware was a lot slower and there wasn't much issue with that, it was easier to write without worrying about the game. Space Invaders famously had this as a perk of the game - the aliens got faster as you destroyed them because there were less left for the processor to manage, so each got a bigger chunk of that time.

This game however has that as a problem, the game is pretty much unplayable on a modern decent PC because the game hasn't been adjusted to limit the play speed, I find it runs far too fast to be really played.

The story is great, the setting is wonderful (though it has a lot more work put in over time than most games, since it was taken from a tabletop game) the game is still on the buggy side, but at this point it's been out for a week, there's a lot of games that are this bad or worse on release people tend to forget how bad they were when they started.

It's been a year and I still stand by my review. There was good, bad and ugly in the game, there are things I would like to have been done differently, but I still enjoyed it, I will still go back and play again when the DLC is released, and still did play through multiple times in the past year as it is.

Card balance is pretty terrible, games are too fast to really enjoy.

More serious than GTA or Saints Row (even the older ones when they were actually somewhat serious) and honestly that's a big part about what makes this game so good.

In what way is a tiara a sea urchin? The clue was Sea Urchin, the item was a tiara/crown. It seems like they used google translate for their localization...

Problem 1 - Achievements are broken. Earning them shows an in game notification, but does not show them on steam.

Problem 2 - Hint system is terrible. Hints showing you how to use an inventory item is useless when the next thing you need to do requires an item you didn't even know existed. I needed the oven mit, which was in a drawer I didn't know to open, to get the wrench "key" as the only thing I could do next.

These were just the unique issues with this game, it had some of the standard HOG issues too,