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1 person found this review helpful
6.1 hrs on record (0.4 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
Wonderful arcade-style overhead shooter. Great progression loops, responsive yet challenging controls that reward skillful play, tons of options for distinct playstyles, excellent experience.
Posted 23 August, 2022.
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16 people found this review helpful
0.2 hrs on record
Unfortunately just a poor experience. I could only sit through ten minutes before too many issues had piled up and I decided to get a refund. In my short experience, here are the issues I noticed:
- No options settings on title screen start up. Being able to configure things like graphics and audio settings before starting a game is important to a lot of people.
- No options for camera controls. Once again, being able to configure camera sensitivity and inversions is standard. None of these options are present in this game at all.
- Awkward, and sometimes outright broken dialogue system. The way to talk with someone to walk within a certain proximity to them; this will immediately put the dialogue box on the screen. It is hard to tell how close you must be for this to happen, so sometimes if you accidentally press the button to continue the dialogue when text comes up that you weren't expecting, you will just miss whatever the dialogue box had to say. In my ten minutes this happened several times. The final straw of this was when I tried speaking to a fox in a shack, and trying to progress the dialogue just didn't work at all. It would make a sound as if the fox was speaking, and I could catch a few frames of it trying to scroll the dialogue, but it just was not working. There is no reason for a dialogue system to behave this way in a finished product.
- The pause menu screens are similarly problematic. Sometimes it just doesn't save your preferences when you exit the menu. Opening the pause menu back up will appear as if you're on the main pause menu, but in reality it keeps the previous position of the last menu screen you had been in before closing the window, and just shows you the incorrect screen. This makes entering, exiting, and maneuvering the pause menu incredibly frustrating.
- The ambient audio and music does not seem like it was designed to actually loop, and often cuts into itself in distracting and jarring ways.

Objectively speaking, these are the concrete problems I had faced in ten minutes alone. I faced many more subjective ones concerning the quality of the writing and visual appearance that I won't detail here since it may not bother some people. However, this game does not feel finished in any way. It makes me so sad to write this, I'm always in indie devs' corners any time I can be, but this is really rough. Can't recommend picking this up unless there are significant overhauls.
Posted 11 July, 2021.
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1 person found this review helpful
3.5 hrs on record
Very sweet and beautiful game. At first I was astounded at how lovingly it captured the warmth and comfort of being a child on vacation with your grand parents, and then it uses that as a springboard to remind us how much of an impact everyone as individuals can have on each other and our environment by taking the time to be considerate. A wonderful thing to remember packaged in a wonderful experience, and a wonderful way to inspire others to do what they can to help protect the environment and all the wonderful critters that inhabit it.
Posted 12 December, 2020.
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1.6 hrs on record
Such an interesting game! Mostly because of its presentation - every now and then through the years I'll be like, "that one game that looked like you were playing through a CRT was so neat, I should play it again sometime." Always sticks out in my mind as a very unique experience.
Posted 26 February, 2020.
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