Peripeteia

“I have a few issues with the game, but the main one is that despite liking the atmosphere that the size of the levels gives off, it unfortunately ends up becoming detrimental to gameplay as the levels are too big, empty and confusing to navigate, which resulted in making the majority of my playtime being just walking around aimlessly and searching places that more often than not had absolutely nothing.”

“The game might possibly trick you into that impression with several prescripted routes you can go about to solve a mission (that you more randomly stumble upon rather than figure out and pursue purposefully), but the actual gameplay involved has next to zero variety.”

“Downsides: incredibly inconsistent texture sizes, large and empty environments with lots of walking but little to see or do, not quite dynamic music, deafeningly loud rain noises at almost all time, abhorrently bad grabbing mechanics in which the player drops whatever is held by bumping into stuff (including air) or turning too fast/slowly, assault guns suck in terms of accuracy, aiming down sights in general sucks as the weapon model flies all over the screen and the sights are poorly modeled, I have yet to decipher what half of the UI tries to tell me, a non-functional midair jump ability, weird climbing mechanics.”

“Music triggers won't turn off after all enemies in an area are dead, so as you're backtracking through levels to explore or finish the mission, you'll just have the fight theme come on randomly.”

“The combat music can get in the way when it's simply present over the entire area, so I hope some dynamic music system is implemented later on.”

“The music of this game being mainly breakcore is not a bad pick, I do enjoy that genre in itself, but when it comes to said music, it really chooses some very unfortunate timing to be played. For example, I'll be walking in a completely empty hallway or taking an elevator, and suddenly a turbo hyper breakcore song is going to start to play. It would have been better if these songs would play during actual fights rather than being area-triggered.”

“The game is aloft only by low lights and gritty atmosphere that is as hollow as their attempt to simulate feelings of vastness.”

“I have a few issues with the game, but the main one is that despite liking the atmosphere that the size of the levels gives off, it unfortunately ends up becoming detrimental to gameplay as the levels are too big, empty and confusing to navigate, which resulted in making the majority of my playtime being just walking around aimlessly and searching places that more often than not had absolutely nothing.”

“Atmosphere crumbles every time you have to quicksave tons of times, replay sections and gunfights because of the bugs, overpowered enemies, design flaws and meaningless shortage of every resource you need to play and explore.”

“These range from small graphical glitches (z-fighting, wrong hand positions while holding a gun) to inventory glitches (lost items when loading the game), and only once did the game completely crash (after an inventory bug where stuff was stuck in there, fixed when restarting).”

“Currently on 6700xt and 3700x on 1440p display, this graphic style is abysmal - on lowest settings I couldn't even reach 100fps when I started the game and it was still jumpy between 70 and 100.”

“The art style is very acquired taste and I actually like fair chunks of it, but a major gripe of mine is that the lighting in the levels in terms of visuals and the lighting in terms of the stealth system's interpretation of bright and dark are often totally out of whack.”

“Every 1-2 minutes the game freezes for approximately 10 seconds.”

“Buggy and unstable performance: significant actions often cause several seconds of stutters and freezes, which is unacceptable even on high-end devices.”

“There are numerous glitches and bugs ranging from minor inconveniences to game-breaking issues, including soft-lock bugs preventing level completion and inventory bugs causing lost or stuck items.”

“It's actually diabolical how unoptimized this game is; I genuinely can't get more than 80 fps at 1080p in most areas with less than max settings (no volumetric lighting or antialiasing either).”

“There are some complaints to keep in mind though, the second to last level in the game is to this game as Blighttown was for Dark Souls 1: it's massive, ridiculously hard, and most importantly, terribly optimized. If you have a 3060 like me, your framerate will probably dip into 18fps throughout the level.”

“First off, the game is horribly unoptimized—any significant action has a considerable chance of being accompanied by several second-long stutters and freezes. Even if I did not have a high-end device, I don't think I should have to explain why that degree of performance is unacceptable for a game that looks like this.”

“-replay value”

“Hoping for more replayability value in the future.”

“Replayability is very high.”

“Spent like 5 hours on the first mission just exploring and doing everything I could find plus aura farming; this is peak tedious grinding.”

“I think my only real complaint is that the game suffers from being too big. While I love visually large environments, the actual levels being big makes it difficult and tedious to traverse, especially when backtracking. I often found myself looping around or getting lost, unsure of what to do or where to go.”

“The game lacks some general quality-of-life features, like closing menus with Esc or having more inventory space. You get so many weapons from enemies or lockers but can only carry a few; carrying two weapons, ammo, recovery items, and augments fills half your inventory. This forces multiple trips to vendors across large empty spaces, making the process tedious and time-consuming.”

“Overall, I'm excited for the game's development if it continues, and will look forward to coming back if it receives updates. However, I cannot recommend it for $25 as the advertising makes it seem like a more complete and less janky experience. It feels somewhat misleading and kind of like one of those scam games carried 100% by hype and aesthetic.”

“The ads need work along with some bugs; other than that it is very fun.”

“I think an option for just a zoom instead of ads would go far for a game like this, especially since hipfiring is super accurate.”