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Why this medal: The game was good at first, we were doing parkour, it had a fluent, fast gameplay. Then the troubles started. The game has a whip mechanic called "whip" and you have to aim and hit while playing with the arm. We can climb parts that we cannot reach with a whip. The aiming part does not work properly most of the time, it works much better with the keyboard and mouse, but I played with the controller. Additionally, there are both permanent improvements and in-level improvements in the game. While pursuing these improvements, there are ridiculous losses of life and loss of tempo. Permanent improvements in the game turn to grind. Temporary improvements within the stage turn into a "what should I stop and collect now?" situation. On difficult stages, stopping and buying a chest is not an ordeal. The final point that made me lose my patience and quit the game was the increasingly difficult stages. There are mobs that attack you while doing parkour in the game. I'm doing my parkour, and while I'm playing with the stress of "how am I going to jump there?", a son of a bi comes from behind and plays his stupid music, makes the screen vibrate, paints it red, blinds me, enters my mouth and takes most of my life, and these mobs are always around you, all the time. One bastar is sending poison bombs and you have no room to move. I got angry while writing and will lower the score even more. Fck the game you're making. We are making beautiful parkours, no, we are going to do it rogue like,collect upgrades, it is a grind-filled souls game, and it puts you at the beginning, and there are stupid, stupid son of btch mobs that drive you crazy.

TR
Neden bu madalya: Oyun başta güzeldi, parkur yapıyoruz akıcı, hızlı bir oynanışı vardı. Sonra sıkıntılar başladı. Oyunda "whip" denen kırbaç mekaniği var ve kol ile oynarken nişan alıp vurmak gerekiyor. Kırbaç ile yetişemediğimiz kısımlara tırmanabiliyoruz. Nişan alma kısmı çoğu zaman düzgün çalışmıyor, klavye mouse ile çok daha iyi çalışıyor ama ben kolla oynadım. Ayrıca oyunda hem kalıcı geliştirmeler hem de bölüm içerisinde geliştirmeler var. Bu geliştirmeleri kovalarken saçma sapan can kayıpları ve tempo kaybı oluyor. Oyundaki kalıcı geliştirmeler grind'a dönüyor. Etap içerisindeki geçici geliştirmeler ise "şimdi durup ne toplıycam bunu ya" olayına dönüyor. Zorlu etaplarda ise durup sandık almak çekilecek çile değil. Sabrımı taşıran ve oyunu bıraktıran son nokta ise zorlaşan etaplar oldu. Oyunda parkur yaparken size saldıran moblar var. Parkurumu yapıyorum, "oraya nasıl atlıycam ya" stresiyle oynarken arkadan bir tane orospu çocuğu gelip siktiğimin saçma sapan müğini çalıyo, ekranı titretip, kırmızı renge boyayıp kör ediyo, bide ağzımın içine girip canımın büyük kısmını alıyo ve bu moblar sürekli ama sürekli etrafınızda. Bi tane piç zehir bombaları yolluyo hareket edicek yeriniz kalmıyo. Yazarken sinirlendim puanı daha da düşüreceğim. Sİkeyim yapacağınız oyunun amk. Güzel güzel parkur yapyıoruz yok rogue like yapcaz uprage toplayın derken grind dolu souls oyun olmuş en başa atıyor bide aptal aptal orospu evladı moblar var çıldırttı ya.

Coal Medal

Medal System:

0.5 stars - This game will make you its b*tch! (Coal medal)
1 star - Extremely boring (Broken medal)
1.5 stars - Boring (Empty medal)
2 stars - Not fun (Wooden medal)
2.5 stars - It could have been fun but... (Bronze medal)
3 stars - Normal fun (Silver medal)
3.5 stars - I had more fun than usual (Emerald medal)
4 stars - I had so much fun (Gold medal)
4.5 stars - I loved it but something is missing (Platinum medal)
5 stars - Special for me / my favorites (Diamond medal)

Honestly fun at first but the deeper you get into the game, the more you realise that its basically shown you most of what it has within the first hour of play. After that its a lot of grind, a lot of repetitive content and a lot of hooting and hollering about nothing where it feels as if your accomplishments often have little rhyme or reason to in-game progression which kills the mood after a while.

Don't get me wrong, it has its moments of tense 'Will I make it?' and the moments of 'Can I make it?' thrown in and when the game gets good, it feels thrilling... But then you're just thrown back into a level piece you feel you've seen fifty times by that point and all the excitement just drains back out. Having no way to quickly just jump in/out of runs, forcing you to go through the main chamber every single time is frustrating as can be too.

Its again a shame as it really does have those moments which makes you go chefs kiss but they are few and far between and because of how the game is built, feels more like chance moments than anything done on purpose.

A game that seems to have come out much too late to capitalize on that 'First-Person Perspective Temple Run' vibe it was going for. I'll give it this, it definitely did nail that vibe. The only goal of the game is to complete each course as quickly as possible, and boy will you want to do exactly that, because in about 60 minutes you'll realize that this game offers nothing more than that. There is a sprinkling of symbiotic mechanics attempting to prop up that premise, but man are they barebones and bland. I feel as though this game engine could be used to make a really interesting modern rendition of Pitfall Harry, and if they did something more along the lines of that, count me in next time! As for this outing, the only reason I'm giving them 3/5 instead of 2.5/5 is they get half a point for a cute and original premise executed decently.

[Played in Early Access]
Phantom Abyss is a very addictive parkour challenge game for anyone who loves their movement shooters, but it feels like there's been a lot of missed oppurtunities that hopefully get implemented and rework the game over time.

The economy is very stingy and powerups are minor, making it impossible to upgrade frequently to make varying roguelite builds and the pace slows to a crawl as soon as you realise you don't really need to race through the temples, which feels at odds with the game's fast paced movement.

I've had this game on my Steam wishlist for a few months now and lucked out when it popped up on Game Pass. Really clever idea to make it feel like a massive multiplayer while not requiring concurrent players. The simple but satisfying moveset lets you pull of some fun jumps and stunts. And making your way through the trials while seeing other phantoms perish is really cool...

Unfortunately, like others have said, it gets old surprisingly fast. I've completed 3 of the temples and it already feels pretty repetitive. It lacks a lot of variety and tries to incentivize you with new whips, but they don't feel significantly different.

Great Game Pass game. Give it a shot for a fun hour or so of a clever idea. Beyond that, it will needs some new updates and/or modes to make me interested in playing again.