Not a terrible, uh, project, not the greatest experience to play through. The whole "centered around movement puzzles" thing, is a complete lie, theres no movement puzzles, and the movement isn't even good lmao.
The whole entire gameplay loop is; waddle insanely slow with your backpack until you get to a designated spot to set it down, climb some cliff generally right next to the bag, then press a button to hook/summon the back back to you so you can go back to waddling around slowly whilst fighting the camera lol, do that a couple times & sit down at a campfire so the one song that plays in this section can loop in your ears for the twentieth time.
There's a random ice wall where if you jump at it, you get stuck in a crack and float there till you get respawned.
The random skii'ing sections are just; zero sound effect cut scenes with nothing to do.
Jumping is a danger to your life, in the very few times you get free'd from the burden of which is your own bag, sprint jumping is the fastest way to move, DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT, try sprint jumping while going up a slope, you may get stuck in perma free fall and get respawned. this is extra annoying when it keeps resetting your button pressing progress, even though it spawns you somewhere new as if your progress is unaffected. There's a couple spots you have to jump across something, and ive gotten that random stuck in the ground freefalling and getting reset crap, like, im literally meant to jump here, and it doesn't work properly
like, 2 sections, for no reason, in random spots on the map, it just started playing CRAAZY LOUD and intense music, so loud it hurt, speaking of sounds hurting my ears, like half of the game is a section where the stepping sound affect is one singular, annoying, sound, on repeat, like twice a second this terrible stepping sound plays, it nearly drove me insane and made me quit, but i toughed it out till they went back to the snow stepping sound affect. and even though this new sections with snow stepping sound affects came up, i was walking across a stone bridge with no snow lmao, they choose the stepping sound affect based on the section your in, instead of what you step on, which is HELL given that GOD AWEFUL stepping on solid ground sound.
I think theres a missing cutscene or something?? during some audioless skiing cut scene, it just cuts to black and then i load in some random new location and text pops up like "ouch" and explains whatever just happened sucked and our bag is lost(lowkey god bless, burn that bag i hate carrying it), and it really just shows up so out of nowhere on a random designated bag setting down spot, right outside of a characters room im supposed to talk to (i guess? talking to him really does nothing)
oh and theres literally no sound affects for dialogue or anything, no popup sound, no text sound, no character sound, theres not even voice acting, you just press e, text pops up, you press e, new text pops up, okay great, cool, maybe im nitpicking about that one, but idk.
Not great, not the worst game ever, had many annoyance and flaws that stack up to me just not thinking its worth recommending,
The ending message wasnt even so great, they basically just have you read some zero sound affect text boxes about how yoyu have to let go of the past and accept change or something? lmfao, it was lowkey buns.
I believe in you devs, you could do so much better than this, surely!
Edit: i guess this is published by a college? so i guess this game is made by a singular, or multiple students? and so i guess, cool! it still wasnt so amazing, but at least students have life ahead of them to get better at the craft, they arent some 50 year old failing game dev, good job whoever made this :)) lol
