"Climb Challenge - Castle" is the game you'd get if you ordered Assassin's Creed from Wish. Or from HEDE which usually turns out to be even worse.
Everything here is cobbled together from premade asset packs which at least ensures it somewhat works:
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[*]the castle is a demo scene from [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/75818]The Big Castle Kit[/url]
[*]the heroine is [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/fantasy/furrys2-sorceres-and-archer-125966]FurryS2: Sorceress and Archer[/url]
[*]the climbing system is [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/151612]Climbing System[/url] (d'oh!)
[*]and the utterly annoying music has been taken from FreeSound.org. At least the licensing is okay this time.
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As good as the assets may be the composition shows HEDE's utter ineptitude. The castle would have been enough of a challenge to climb if done properly, but no, they had to go nuts:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2852033189
And to think this free floating disk isn't even the worst part ...
Climbing works just like in Assassin's Creed, just not remotely as fluid or precise. The first few climbing spots are marked with a helpful and completely immersion breaking (haha) exclamation mark but starting right before the giant floating disk of doom these helpful markers just stop. Should you fall down from a great height you're dead and as there are no check points you can climb the entire route again. And trust me, the imprecise movement [i]will[/i] make you dead, especially on the moving parts.
On top of the control issues the game is just plain ugly. Post processing seems to be completely absent, as is proper ligthting, so everything looks far too bright and awful. There's no way to configure anything at all, you can't even get rid of the terrible music that's running on a rather short loop. Oh, but there [i]is[/i] a slider which seems to change the rendering quality! Not sure [i]why[/i] it's a slider because Unity doesn't work that way but well ... if you want to make the graphics even worse, you can!
There are a bunch of positive reviews on here which obviously shouldn't be positive but have been posted by the usual flock of russian pay-for-review accounts. Funnily, while still voting positive even they seem to be wholly unimpressed:
[quote="DM"]
"Assassin at minimum. Everything here is at minimum wages, there was parkour on the walls and this is bad.
We need to diversify the gameplay."
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We certainly do. Or actually we just need to avoid this game like the plague. The real Assassin's Creed games are often available at a steep discount so if you really want to go climbing and haven't played them yet please get the real deal. Not only are they fantastic games, they are original creations and often much cheaper (if on sale) than this steaming heap of garbage.
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