Recent reviews by Zyhael

Existence is a thing of beauty.

Classic Game. It's not hard. It's mostly 60% figuring out what you can press or pick up. 30% going through mini-games and 10% game logic.

I didn't use a single coin but the mini-games are worth 15 to skip and there are a lot of them that the skip button was tempting. A hint costs 3 coins. They really went out of there way to make all items seem un-clickable, have a lot of mini-games so you'd be tempted to spend.

It's still a fun game once you understand the logic but finding all the items really takes a while.

Like you have an adjustable wrench but you can't turn a valve without a handle, so you have to use your wrench to take out a nut to get to the handle.

There are some weird stuff going on as well, like it starts out where for a torch, you need just a rag, stick, and click on the oil for the oil to be poured on the rag: then it goes you have to open the oil bottle and physically pour it.

Rules are not consistent and looking for the clues to solve some stuff if sort of a stretch. You have a glass cutter, the door to the exit is made of glass but you can't use it coz the glass cutter is for another door.

Tip:
Try everything as in everything, all your items gets used up on all the right things.
Click on everything!
If you unlock a new area the item for the next area is there.
Check under things especially if you have a ruler.
The knife is used for a lot of things except those that you think makes sense.
You'll need that cloth if there are hanging fabrics/cloth and you have a knifel

Good puzzle game. Unfortunately, sometimes there's only one way to place the pieces and that gives an obvious hint as to how to solve it.
I also had a strange issue at level 19 where everything was setup correctly but it didn't want to work, restarting and placing it again worked... might have been the order I placed the things?

You can only walk when exploring padding game time, making it tedious and making exploring not fun. Funnily though, you can run when in combat.
At the end fight, if you kill 3 skulls and have the fourth at the edge of the battle area, there is no way to kill it as the draw area does not extend to the edge of the battle field; leaving you the only option to return to the main menu and try again. Kill 2 at a time together so it doesn't bug out.

Controls are clunky. Camera is giving me motion sickness especially if you are on bumpy ground.
I also get empty brown screens when instructions are shown. Luckily, I was able to guess what to press on a controller.
Play "Jusant" instead if you want a better climbing experience.

The game lore is great. The mechanics are also great when they work. I get stuck a lot and sometimes the character seems to want to go off in a different direction from my controls but when that doesn't happen, it's great! The game also suffers from most unreal engine projects like blurry AA, your character getting pushed randomly by collisions (sometimes towards the heavens), some jank animations (especially when rappelling) but overall a quick and relaxing climbing game where it does the climbing part very well.

Cute and fun!
Jumping feels floaty though and there are areas where the camera gets too close and sometimes it feels stuck.
Only thing lacking would be achievements.
I'd give this an A+!!

Fun, funny, hilarious!

While cute and a school project I can't recommend this. I'd Grade this somewhere between B and C so maybe a B-.
This may be harsh but they need to know the shortcomings of their game. Hopefully, their teacher/school told them about these issues as well. I would say that with additional time like a month or a week would iron out these issues and they'll have a game with a better gaming experience. I would like to look at the source files but yeah..
Anyways, great school project! I just wish there was a bit more time to fix these. I wonder if you guys have a write up on how this game was made/timelines etc.

• Right off the bat, the starting menu has all the options in a bright color while the selected option is in a darker/unlit version of the button. I'd say this should be the other way around or better yet, have a different paint color for the selected option.
  
• There is no save so you can't continue where you left off and have to restart the whole game.
  
• The controls are a bit buggy and sluggish.
  
• There are many instances where just switching between characters can take a while as well as in some certain instances where you'd get stuck and need to restart.
  
• The graphics options is a slider and you are unsure what features it removes.
  
• The most annoying thing is being unable to use the controller as it seems to constantly press S and look down when a controller is plugged in. And I think I managed to make it permanent even without a controller plugged in by pressing Alt+Tab while playing.

Cute, fun, a little buggy but hey it's free and it's a short story of sorts.