1.7 hours played
Written 4 years ago
While the core gameplay is moderately fun, various technical issues, developer oversights, and a translation so bad it makes 4kids look excellent; all end up marring what could be a unique and quirky game.
To start off the game is quite janky It has the love/hate physics bugs and small graphical glitches such as colliding textures, but those aren't deal breaking if you're used to games which can be rough around the edges. The real dealbreakers all seem fixable, but considering it's out of early access, quite unlikely.
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[*] Mission logic breaking,
[*] One cutscene being completely broken and needing to be skipped,
[*] Objective text boxes being two small to contain all of the text with no way to scroll them (Most likely an oversight when translating to English).
[*] [b]Tutorials with controls being either extremely brief, auto-progressing as you're trying to read them with no way to auto look back at some; and/or completely incorrect. (The getting off the bike control dialogue being my final straw.)[/b],
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Those are the worst issues in my opinion. Other issues which should have been resolved in early access include:
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[*] Maximum Resolution is 1920x1080 (Exceptionally frustrating as someone with a 1440p display)
The developers reported on the steam forums over a year ago, that this was being worked on.
[*] Performance issues, and the game lagging / hitching in specific scenarios (exiting tunnels is a big one). Performance is excellent outside of these locations.
[*] No way to access the options menu without completing the tutorial (unless skipped), and the introductory mission. It's 2020, Games need to stop doing this already.
[*] Lack of resources elsewhere to try and find answers (such as how to get off the bike intentionally without flying over the handlebars.)
All in all, if this was cheaper, it could be worth it, but at $13.99 (full price is currently $19.99), I can't suggest purchasing the game at this time. If the developers were to fix these issues, I'd consider giving the game another chance and updating this review. But as of now (2020-11-23) I'm refunding the product for the above issues.
One last piece of advice, for the positive reviews, check the playtime.