This game is magical and a feast to the mind with how beautiful it looks and sounds. I loved exploring, solving puzzles and collecting things. I'm giving this a negative on principle. This game is left in a buggy state that can be game breaking if you're not careful. Here are my main cons:
1. There are sections in the game where your save can become useless and you have to start from the very beginning. I experienced one of those instances in the desert where I returned to a previous area to collect something I missed. The door didn't open on the way out and the game only has one save. There is also no option to return to the hub. You have to finish the level first. I was fortunate enough to be aware of the problems based on the impressions of others. So I've made multiple save backups to be on the safe side.
2. It's ridiculous that the game doesn't allow you to return to your hub whenever you feel like it. If you miss any collectible, you have to return to a level and finish the level in its entirety. There are 3 levels total but each one is huge and takes a long time to finish. This unnecessarily wastes your time.
3. The trophies for collecting all drawings and toys are bugged. Even though I collected everything, I didn't get them. Some did when you look at the stats. So I'm not sure what I did wrong.
4. The game is very badly optimized. I have a 4070 ti, i5-13400f and 32gb ram. My 1440p monitor allows 165fps and I was worried it would be too much on the highest settings. I put the game on 120 fps just to be on the safe side, there were still many instances where the GPU would need 100%. There have been brief moments where the fps dropped to 100 or there were stutters when parts of the areas were loading. I had a pretty smooth experience for the most part but I'm not sure about older hardware.
This game is worth playing if you are aware of its problems and come prepared. Make sure you back up your saves. It might also be better to have a guide for all the collectibles if you know yourself to be impatient and don't like repeating long levels for them. If you prefer finding the collectibles on your own, at least the first time, then try not to backtrack while you're in the levels. It's better to finish the levels and then do them again.
This game could have been so much better if the devs patched it at least once. They never did. They mentioned they would fix the bugs for a while around release, then things went real quiet after that. Those kind of devs/publishers are not worth supporting. Hence the negative review.
1. There are sections in the game where your save can become useless and you have to start from the very beginning. I experienced one of those instances in the desert where I returned to a previous area to collect something I missed. The door didn't open on the way out and the game only has one save. There is also no option to return to the hub. You have to finish the level first. I was fortunate enough to be aware of the problems based on the impressions of others. So I've made multiple save backups to be on the safe side.
2. It's ridiculous that the game doesn't allow you to return to your hub whenever you feel like it. If you miss any collectible, you have to return to a level and finish the level in its entirety. There are 3 levels total but each one is huge and takes a long time to finish. This unnecessarily wastes your time.
3. The trophies for collecting all drawings and toys are bugged. Even though I collected everything, I didn't get them. Some did when you look at the stats. So I'm not sure what I did wrong.
4. The game is very badly optimized. I have a 4070 ti, i5-13400f and 32gb ram. My 1440p monitor allows 165fps and I was worried it would be too much on the highest settings. I put the game on 120 fps just to be on the safe side, there were still many instances where the GPU would need 100%. There have been brief moments where the fps dropped to 100 or there were stutters when parts of the areas were loading. I had a pretty smooth experience for the most part but I'm not sure about older hardware.
This game is worth playing if you are aware of its problems and come prepared. Make sure you back up your saves. It might also be better to have a guide for all the collectibles if you know yourself to be impatient and don't like repeating long levels for them. If you prefer finding the collectibles on your own, at least the first time, then try not to backtrack while you're in the levels. It's better to finish the levels and then do them again.
This game could have been so much better if the devs patched it at least once. They never did. They mentioned they would fix the bugs for a while around release, then things went real quiet after that. Those kind of devs/publishers are not worth supporting. Hence the negative review.