4 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.3 hrs on record
Posted: 24 May, 2020 @ 6:44pm
Updated: 24 May, 2020 @ 10:27pm

Early Access Review
Piece of sh*t phone game. Avoid like the COVID.

- Requires signing up for an account, even just to play single-player. (Protip: Don't give them your real email address)
- No controller support.
- Can't go fullscreen until you finish or skip the tutorial.
- No way to exit the program during gameplay in fullscreen mode (I guess it thinks it's running on a phone and you have a home button???)
- It really doesn't seem to know it's not running on a phone: It keeps talking about "tapping", never "clicking".
- It really, really doesn't seem to know it's not running on a phone: All the UI elements like date-selection, state-selection, etc, are all POS small-touchscreen-oriented phone-style ones that are seriously f'ing weird with a mouse.
- Passwords have a MAX limit of 10 chars (WTF? Doesn't instill much confidence in their account security ability)
- Protip to devs: On registration, typing something twice is for PASSWORD fields not EMAIL fields! People can already SEE what they typed in the email field. By proper design, they CAN'T see what they typed in the PASSWORD field. THAT'S WHAT "RETYPE" FIELDS ARE FOR!!! These geniuses got it backwards. (And yes, I've seen newer websites do the same thing. Doesn't mean it isn't re-tar-Ted.)
- All the menus (other than options) are nonsensical labyrinthine trash. (ie, standard F2P phone "game" gutter trash)
- Using photos instead of a realtime 3D course is actually kind of an interesting idea, somewhat reminiscent of the non-realtime rendering technique very early PC golf games used to use. Unfortunately, unlike those games, using photos forces this to use a Resident Evil-style camera (ie, PS1-era, not the remakes) which ultimately makes this game a seriously awkward pain to play AND it just *feels* very, very cheap, especially when it tries to mimic camera movement by scaling and panning a jpeg.
- Controls...well, at least they're not QUITE the standard piece-of-garbage three-click system. But they're really not much better. Or much different, really.
- No VSync option. Hello, screen-tearing!

Granted, yes, "early-access", but I can't see this becoming good no matter how much spit-polish it receives. If they drop the F2P trash and all the other "half-a**ed phone port" vestiges, then I can see it becoming...just ok at best.
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