Скорошни рецензии на Esaphia

6/10
My experience was fair, i did like the game but also i didn't,
Don't get me wrong, i liked the story, but as for gameplay, i had mixed feelings.
The gameplay felt a bit bland especially at the start, i found myself getting lost quite a bit due to it being hard to see as well as due to areas that felt samey, the matches run out insanely quick which didnt help at the times where i wanted to explore certain areas, either way i came through it and beat the game, i enjoyed the few puzzles the game threw at me however id prefer if there were more of them, im a little sad to give it a negative but the game didnt impress me as much as i thought it would've.

This is review is considered personal so your user experience may vary :)

Gameplay
(Comment) - Physics based fun, can be quite addictive.
☐ Fun and Enjoyable!
☐ Good Stuff
☑ Pretty Good
☐ Alright
☐ Boring
☐ This Sucks

Graphics
(Comment) - For an indie game This game has fair graphics, has a low poly style, so its easier on low end computers which is a bonus, I love the cartoony look, with the black outlines too.
☐ Absolutely Beautiful!
☐ Wow Nice
☐ Decent
☑ Fair
☐ Could look better
☐ Bad
☐ Hard to look at

Story
☐ Masterpiece!
☐ Immersive
☐ Decent
☐ Average
☐ Some Lore
☑ Doesn't have a Story

Length
(Comment) - This game has 5 stages on a normal playthrough which takes around half an hour to get through if you can complete the goals under the time limit then you win with a final score, the game also has another gamemode for purely messing around in called Litterbox mode. The reason I didn't put this game under "Over Already?!" was because its fun and replayable and because of all the collectables you can find. There is also the random chance of you finding a special bonus level item which is cool too.
☐ Forever!
☐ Very Long
☐ Long
☐ Average
☑ Short
☐ Over Already?!

Difficulty
(Comment) - basic controls, easy to get going, time limit is quite forgiving too.
☐ Rest In Peace!
☐ Expert
☐ Hard
☐ Varied
☐ Medium
☑ Simple
☐ Not Necessary

Audio
(Comment) - soundtrack was pretty chill, does repeat often after multiple replays though.
☐ Premium Quality!
☐ Good Quality
☑ Med Quality
☐ Low Quality

Bugs
(Comment) - I played for a total of 11 hours, I don't think i found a single bug.
☑ Rarely Any!
☐ Minor Bugs
☐ Pretty Buggy
☐ Infested

Worth The Price?
(Comment) - For its replayability, I'd say so, I made the most of it by going for 100% completion.
☐ It is a Free Game
☐ Definitely Worth It!
☐ Solid Price
☑ Good Price
☐ Some What Worth it
☐ Not Recommended
☐ Don't buy

My Personal Rating out of 10 is a 6.8 / 10
10 = Perfect
9 = Beautiful
8 = Great
7 = Decent
6 = Fair
5 = Alright
4 = Meh
3 = Bad
2 = Ouch
1 = Terrible

This is review is considered personal so your user experience may vary :)

Gameplay
☐ Fun and Enjoyable!
☑ Good Stuff
☐ Pretty Good
☐ Alright
☐ Boring
☐ This Sucks

Graphics
☐ Absolutely Beautiful!
☐ Wow Nice
☑ Decent
☐ Could look better
☐ Bad
☐ Hard to look at

Story
☐ Masterpiece!
☐ Immersive
☐ Decent
☐ Fair
☐ Some Lore
☑ Doesn't have a Story

Length
☐ Forever!
☐ Very Long
☐ Long
☑ Average
☐ Short
☐ Over Already?!

Difficulty
☐ Rest In Peace!
☐ Expert
☐ Hard
☑ Varied
☐ Medium
☐ Simple
☐ Not Necessary

Audio
☐ Premium Quality!
☑ Good Quality
☐ Med Quality
☐ Low Quality

Bugs
☐ Rarely Any!
☑ Minor Bugs
☐ Pretty Buggy
☐ Infested

Worth The Price?
☐ It is a Free Game
☐ Definitely Worth It!
☐ Solid Price
☑ Good Price
☐ Some What Worth it
☐ Not Recommended
☐ Don't buy

My Personal Rating out of 10 is a 7.3 / 10
10 = Perfect
9 = Beautiful
8 = Great
7 = Decent
6 = Fair
5 = Alright
4 = Meh
3 = Bad
2 = Ouch
1 = Terrible

My personal review of Hectic Highways:

Gameplay - 8 / 10(Fun and Addictive)
Visuals - 6.5 / 10(Looks Good, Although a Little Rough in Areas)
Controls - 7 / 10(Simple and Easy Controls)
Music - 7 / 10(Well Made and Creative Soundtrack - Can be Repetitive)
Overall - 7.5 / 10 (Great Game!)

My personal review in detail:

First of all, before I get into the game, I will like to say that the video and images definitely caught my attention from the steam page as well as the attractive design for the title which is really catchy, its great haha. It immediately caught my attention that this was a obstacle based game where the player needs to survive and dodge incoming obstables, I could see the inspiration took from cluster truck with how the survivability works. I'll get more into it.

Gameplay:

So the gameplay at first was particularly interesting as there is 3 lanes and 3 cars, one on each one and you need to dodge each incoming obstacle until the game reaches the end of the road to a finish line, for each level you pass, the difficulty raises, which for me, your average PC gamer about 10 deaths on the first few levels as I was getting used to playing it, then about 8 - 15 deaths throughout the middle of the game and then the difficulty tends to spike a bit on the winter biome levels where my death counter was reaching 30 - 90 deaths. - Now this was mainly because of the cars, i'd say about 70% of the time the jumps and leaps I had to make to dodge the next incoming obstacle was not possible because since the cars vary speed at random, you can get the odd car miles ahead or behind the other ones which can make the game severely difficult and a bit too rng based, not trying to make the game look bad and it is still passable, don't get me wrong, I feel like there should be limits to how far a car can be ahead of the one behind and vice versa to stop the cars from running off in the distance. Despite the rng at times, the game is rather fun and definitely kept me playing it until I beat it which took me a length of 2 hours to do which is decent enough for me, The game can be longer if I took my time to go back and beat each level under 5 deaths so I can do the challenge to obtain the stars, The rng made me think twice about that haha, but its a nice effect to have a secondary goal to the game. I like the variety of obstacles in the game, some parts makes you really think on how to pathfind your route to success especially in the winter biome. As for FPS, i'm running a high end PC, The camera felt smooth but it felt like the environment around me was a little be stuttery, I think its the changing of speeds with the cars that cause it.

Visuals:

The visuals in this game were varied, The menu art, design art for buttons and logo etc were very nicely designed, fit the game and looked very eyecatchy alongside the text font used for tips etc. The 3D models were nice in some areas whereas a few others were a bit rough in difference of quality, most of these such models were background objects that are just there for detail so maybe the company were trying to save polys here to give advantage towards FPS but yeah. Graphics really depends on the player, i personally don't care too much about graphics, they look appealling enough to look nice to me at least. The particle effects for snowflakes were really nice on the winter levels athough I took notice to that they only appear for the player after the first few obstacles. For level lighting, they were nice but I did get a bug on the level with trees and lights but the lights didn't spawn after a death causing the whole level to be very dark... until i died again of course.

Controls:

So the game is very simply functioned, using the mouse to move the camera and WASD keys to move, other than that, space to jump and shift to sprint, The controls are nice and easy to get the hang of, as for the responsiveness on the game for each input, the movement and camera was good, the jumping took me personally sometime to get used to and even more time was took for me to get used to the sprinting responsiveness. From how it felt to me, the jump and sprint began slow and increased its speed overtime making the car jumping a bit harder to land, now you can take this in two ways depending on what type of gamer you are, bad - because it feels unrealistic and irregular or good - as it makes the game a bit more challenging. As a casual/hardcore gamer and was in the middle for this scenerio but It didn't annoy me too much.

Music:

The music and soundtrack in this game was really nice for a "first" indie game from this company, felt that the songs were pretty interesting and had some creative thought put into it. The soundtrack is also fitting for each biome you are in which is beneficial, country music for the country roads stage, desert sounding music for the desert stage and so on, I also like how the songs get a beat to them when you passed the 50% mark of the level it seems which was a nice effect. My only disadvantage for the music is how it can get a bit repetitive, this is more frequent on the harder levels but after 50 or so deaths on one level the music can get a bit on your nerves, there is only a mute sounds button in the settings/options menu which was a little bit cheap, I'd prefer a slider for the music, and another slider/stereo button for additional sounds like the jump and death effect.

Final Review:

The game despite its few old bugs and challenging capabilities, it kept me playing throughout the whole thing for 2 hours which was longer than I thought for 15 levels and I enjoyed myself, I think it was worth the price and I hope to see more.

Additional bugs:

Major bug - Once you quit game, it gets stuck as a background process which I can't closer so I can't play the game again until I restart my PC.

Minor bug - Player can jump and stand on top of the fallen/broken streetlamps which furthermore be then used to jump on the powerline/wires whatever you call them.

Minor bug - Sometimes player can have awkward collisions with the car and/or obstacles causing a small forced push in any direction, can also feel like the player collider model is getting squashed from multiple collisions.

Found nothing gamebreaking which is good but those were a few occurances i encountered.

Thanks for reading my review!

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Fun game, really like the story and i was really determined to get good scores THANKS FORXA BTW for making it super hard to get 1K points lmao

Its definitely one of those games that are quick to learn but difficult to master, despite its rng but its the rng makes it fun to fight again and again until you got nice scores

For a game made by one person, I can see potential in this and hope to see it updating and bring out more fights in the future

I just recently got this game and i have to say, its absolutely brilliant, I feel felt immersed in this game world, the cold and snow gave me the shivers in real life, I really love all the survival aspects and exploration, two things that are really shown in the game. I had a lot of random encounters and jumpscares from wolves appearing out of nowhere causing me to shoot my rifle in some random direction xD

If you are wanting to get this game and you want to build a base, then its not the type of game for you, its a lot more story based and your shelter is basically any cover you can find whether thats a cave or abandoned buildings etc. The game is however full of crafting, hunting, fishing, harvesting plants mainly for the basis of survival but in my opinion, this is how survival games are just ment to be.

Another thing to point out even though its a little thing but the sounds in this game are absolutely amazing, everything just kinda fit, whether thats using a can opener or chopping some old chair for wood, i dont know but i found them really pleasent.

The tutorial / first couple of days in Wintermute, is okay but was a little confusing on first try, i died a couple of times on day 1 as i didn't really know what to do, and also the first time on day 3, i never realised you can wait out time so i kinda just sat there next to the fire for 20 minutes in realtime waiting for the 9 in game hours to be done with. The tutorial did cover the basics pretty well though so props to the devs.

The one thing that did annoy me in the game was actually a bug on my first playthrough, the plane injuries never disappeared after leaving the tutorial area so i ended up playing through the story all the way to the end of episode 1 just to not be able to progress because i couldnt climb down the cliff because of the plane injuries. As that was my first playthrough i didn't really know whether the plane injuries would be gone or not. I enjoyed the game so much however that i reset the story and completed both episode 1 and 2.

Other than the Story "WinterMute" there is a survival mode and Challenges. now seeing a challenges gamemode makes me really happy as i don't see much of those these days, i always love a challenge once in a while so its great to see that there. Survival mode really does challenge you especially with its interloper difficulty so you need to me sharp, fast and really really good at the game.

To sum up this is amazing singleplayer to play, if you like to explore open worlds and find little secrets, and immerse yourself into a survival struggle. If you are a fan of story based games, this is a pretty interesting one i gotta admit. The game has a really nice flow to it and introduces new features of the game as the story progresses which is something i like. I got this in winter time and this was the perfect winter game for me this year, so i thank these devs for such an experience