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I wish steam had a MEH rating cause this game is not bad but it's defs not that good.
for me, the music and art is beautiful easily an 8/10, the story and the game tho... I'd give it a 5.5/10 on a good day. It's playable but nothing remarkable and it gets really tedious.
The whole game is only 7 chapters. The first 2 chapters were great, fun cause you're still learning the mechanics but by chapter 3 you realize that oh, this is it?
The character doesn't do anything outside of the standard walk, run, jump and interacting with things. The van tho, does everything else: Scan, Grapple, Hack, Zipline, Power cord, each and every one of those upgrades is locked behind the end/start of a chapter.
The tedious part is that there's only like 7(?) major locations in the game if you ignore the NPC areas and each one has an area locked behind the next van upgrade so you're going back to these same locations over and over again for the rest of the game. Doesn't help that the NPCs also have quests in these locations so you're going back to the same place A LOT. It makes the world feel so small especially since you have a vehicle to drive around in. Really felt like this is a demo+ of the game cause it was so promising at the start then just took a nose dive once the whole map was unlocked.
Warning I'm gonna mention spoilers from this point on.
The story... oh boy the story... The whole premise is that MC goes back to her home planet cause you received a distress signal from your sister that went missing 6 years ago and you meet up with the people from the village you came from and you collaborate with your sister's ex to help find her.
It becomes very obvious early on that they're not being honest and you find out that the reason your sister disappeared 6 years ago was because they tried to stop the magnetic storm happening on the planet to try to get the consortium (Which I'll call MEGA CORPORATION from here on out) back to the planet to give people jobs and shit and they're trying to do it again with your help by also using it as a reason to maybe find your missing sister.
and that doesn't make sense to me ????? like very early on it's obvious that MEGA CORPORATION is bad??? there's a local race of frog people that are very open about how the planet was fucked over by MEGA CORPORATION and they changed whole planet for the worse. There's also an old woman who is basically everyone's grandma who openly regrets her time working for MEGA CORPORATION and HAD ADVISED your sister and her partner not to do this cause MEGA CORPORATION is bad. This character, your sister's ex, had 6 years to reflect on their failure causing them to loose their loved one and also talk to the frog people who are regular visitors of the town and the granny but no?? they're gonna try their failed plan again??
And the Sand Witch... god damn what a disappointment...
They were such an intriguing figure at the start of the story and seemed almost mystical. You know the trope, they would appear in the distance watching the MC and when you try to approach them, they walk behind an object and disappears. (They do this a metric fuck ton) As the game progresses they make a more frequent appearance and becomes less mysterious and almost annoying cause the most that they'd do is taunt you guys like "It was so easy to get rid of your sister, Good thing she was a bad pilot, I didn't have to do anything". Things like that, like what are you, a teenager?
And the reveal is that she was one of the saboteurs 40 years ago that caused the magnetic storm to happen and that everything she said and did was to dissuade MC and friend from stopping the magnetic storm.
MAM. YOU COULD HAVE SPOKEN TO THEM. 6 years ago when they were getting close, why didn't you just give up the mysterious witch gig and told them what your goal is and that you're trying to protect the planet from MEGA CORPORATION. Instead you play dress up and taunt these 2 kids until one of them PILOTS A SHIP INTO THE STORM AND DIES. You didn't even do the courtesy to return her body to her family and show regret on your failure to stop the 2 of them. Instead you continue your dumb act for 6 years until a new person fills in the duo of idiots for you to play charades with AND THEN YOU DO THE SAME THING AGAIN. There is no lesson learned.
These characters are caricature of themselves. I feel bad wasting my time on this game, I lost brain cells trying to understand this story.
Again, beautiful game, convoluted and terrible plot.
Do not recommend unless you just wanna take in the sights.