Aside from some repetitive combat and sometimes-problematic script, Enslaved is surprisingly good!
As an adaptation of part of Journey to the West, it's extremely loose, but the character design and animations are fun and engaging.
It never feels like you're EXACTLY in control, since things like your movement speed are highly contextual, and the platforming and combat puzzle challenges are extremely rote, but you're in charge enough to feel like you're actually playing the game, and its short (but not too short!) length means you don't really have enough time to get frustrated with it.
Andy Serkis is great as Monkey, making a pretty middle of the road script more fun than it deserved to be.
I'm sad I missed this when it was new! It's not doing anything special and it doesn't have much to say, but it's the kind of reasonably solid, reasonably entertaining 18-hour game that nobody seems to want to make anymore.
As an adaptation of part of Journey to the West, it's extremely loose, but the character design and animations are fun and engaging.
It never feels like you're EXACTLY in control, since things like your movement speed are highly contextual, and the platforming and combat puzzle challenges are extremely rote, but you're in charge enough to feel like you're actually playing the game, and its short (but not too short!) length means you don't really have enough time to get frustrated with it.
Andy Serkis is great as Monkey, making a pretty middle of the road script more fun than it deserved to be.
I'm sad I missed this when it was new! It's not doing anything special and it doesn't have much to say, but it's the kind of reasonably solid, reasonably entertaining 18-hour game that nobody seems to want to make anymore.