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4.4 hrs on record (3.0 hrs at review time)
A wonderful point'n'click game with a Yorkshire Twist. The games are short but wonderfully paced, and chock-full of humour.

In a world with open world sandboxes, microtransactions and a nationwide ban on salt, this is the perfect antidote... Well, mostly. 2 outta 3 ain't bad, is it?
Posted 18 October, 2017.
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1 person found this review helpful
20.8 hrs on record (7.4 hrs at review time)
To call this a marginally more forgiving Super Hexagon on Rails would be a useful lie.

Pivvot in Voyage mode is like a forgiving but insistant teacher. The Voyage is a set of phases, alternating between a training phase (composed of 4 new obstacles) and a random phase with 4 obstacles you've seen before. If you die on a phase, you respawn at the start of the phase, like the game's saying, "Ok, try again". This means that if you're in a training phase and don't know how to get past an obstace you're stuck until you learn how to get past it, or you get through thanks to pure dumb luck. However, each obstacle has its trick to get past it, and if you learn the tricks, the game is simply employing that trick in time.

The upshot of this is that you will finish a Voyage at least once if you stick with it.

As for other modes, they're a lot less forgiving. Endless simply throws obstacles at you until you die, but it throws them at you in the same order as the training phases in the voyage mode.

Beserk lives up to its name, and is a real challenge. As is Looper.

The only downside is that there doesn't appear to be an option to quit out of a voyage. Yes, you can choose to return to the main menu, but if you haven't finished Voyage, choosing Voyage from the main menu will bring you back to the phase you're stuck on. As I'm trying to get through Expert without a death, I'd really like the option to restart the Voyage from scratch. As for newbies, the option would potentially be helpful as well, so that they can play through parts that they're comfortable in before they return to the difficult part. As it turns out, you can select the scary "Reset Voyage Progress" in the "Data Options" part of Settings, but it's a non-intuitive (and scary) place to go when you just want to restart the voyage from the start. Restarting a voyage when you've not completed the existing one should not be that scary.

Overall, if you like twitch obstacle-dodging games, it's a really nice one with a nice on-rails twist. The only thing it lacks is a less involved way to reset voyage progress. 9.5/10
Posted 28 July, 2014. Last edited 28 July, 2014.
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