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I really wanted to love this game, but I just couldn’t. I ended up giving up at Stage 2. [u]Visuals & Performance[/u] The first thing that hit me was how extremely blurry the game looks. The resolution is very low, and in parkour sections you can clearly see the outlines of assets and the way textures have been pasted onto walls and objects. It breaks immersion immediately. On top of that, the game is incredibly buggy. There were multiple points where I had to restart because I clipped out of the map or the character stopped interacting with objects entirely. If you reload, your game DOES NOT SAVE. If you move to the map, which is how you start playing, it will be empty. If you exit out of this map, you will no longer be able to move or even interact with anything. Genuinely unplayable. [u]Gameplay & Mechanics[/u] The core mechanic — freezing time with the camera and using that to navigate puzzles — is genuinely creative and could have been fantastic if it were implemented more intuitively. Unfortunately: - You only really understand the mechanic by reading the store description, not the in‑game tutorial. - The tutorial itself is misleading and confusing, and I wouldn’t have figured it out without external explanation. - The mechanic is unstable. If you freeze time and return from the same side, your character flickers in and out of existence and becomes unable to interact with anything. - The camera must be placed exactly where the game expects, or you’ll walk straight out of bounds and get stuck. There’s a great idea here, but the execution just isn’t there yet. [u]Translation & UI[/u] The English translation is serviceable, but the menus default to Chinese, which makes navigation awkward. The storytelling also suffers because the script feels flat and poorly translated, which weakens the emotional impact the game is clearly trying to achieve. Final Thoughts This is the developer’s first game, and that’s important to acknowledge. The creativity is absolutely there, and the core concept has real potential. If the game were less buggy, more intuitive, and not so visually blurry, it could genuinely be a great little indie title especially at its price point. Right now, though, it’s hard to recommend. 3/10