I hoped playing this with my partner would have been the ideal way to experience a co-op title about two lovers exploring the stars, but Haven constantly found ways to wedge inbetween the intimate experience a plethora of elements that drag the journey down to earth.

Haven not only struggles to deliver the adventure it alludes to, it is a co-op game where the other player is only made to feel like a hindrance. The fact that players control a single given character, yet we both have to agree on each other's dialogue options - that only one player gets to direct the actual journey while the other merely collects starbits Mario Galaxy style - the way you each control a single looming third person camera within the house. It constantly finds new ways to feel impersonal, which betrays the intimate and adult love story of Yu and Kay so much. The moment the journey feels like it's finally abound, the momentum is halted by tutorial prompts, redundant battles, and dialogue that could really have been part of traversal.

Haven masquerades as a fun road trip for two, but it's really just a tour boat with Haven at the helm. There's one passenger seat that the players have take turns to sit on, and you're not entirely convinced Haven even knows where he's taking us. Big respect to these devs for taking such a huge departure from Furi, though.

A really, really fantastic open world hacking video-game. The main gimmick of this game is that you can interact with an abundance of objects in this game, anything from doors to robotic turtles, through a hacking interface where you can change the properties of something. So say there's an arcade machine that some dickbag who's dating the girl you like has a high score on, well you can hack it to where you can make the game incredibly easy to play and instantly gain a bigger score than his. Or find the central server for the bank and hack into it to give you infinite money. Or hack a door so that whenever someone touches it they get teleported somewhere else. All these things I mentioned are things I did in the game world and that's not even touching on the other things you can do.

Cus that's what this is, it's an open world hacking game where you get to really change objects. It almost sounds too good to exist and work and well...you're kinda right. The game gives you a LOT of freedom to do stuff but the game doesn't always react to the things you do, sometimes making them pointless. The game's story and ending are kinda threadbare too. I guess some sacrifices were made to make this whole thing work but I think the negatives of this game are negligible compared to the magic of interacting with the world in it.

Experiences may vary, the enjoyment of this game is pretty much based on how much you put into it. Also the game doesn't really hand hold you so it's easy to feel directionless in it, especially at the beginning. If you stick with it though, I feel like you get to play a truly unique experience unlike most other games.