Degeneration

Bad optimization, bland aesthetic, broken english, and an overall poor game-feel. The music is decent, though it could honestly be from Creative Commons and I wouldn't be able to tell. Feels more like a student's first project with 3D rendering software than an actual product you'd pay for.

[h1] Degeneration or is it still degradation? [/h1] Редко, очень редко пишу обзоры после часа игры. Притом, это не тот случай, где игра отвратительна и хочется написать о ее проблемах с неткодом(передаю привет юбисофту), сломанных механиках и напрочь убитом сюжете, который не работает. Это первая игра разработчиков и от этого издателя. Поэтому основательно, для первой игры, она вполне себе хороша. Собственно, начало довольно странное и неплохое. Церковь. Многие тени людей, которые говорят что-то вроде "Я помолюсь за тебя" и "Вернись назад пока не поздно". Выход из церкви, десять шагов и вы уже старик, который за 10 шагов изменился в лице. Как минимум смахивает на любопытное начало. Интересная игра светотени, ибо ребята досконально не могут в этот движок, а это выглядит достаточно красиво. Далее сюжет делает "камбэк" в прошлое гг и пытается высказать историю сквозь записки, комиксные вставки и диалоги. Довольно необычно для платформера, но с выходом на улицу и самим звуком заметные проблемы. По канону во внешнем мире - лютая деградация. Правда, внутри церкви социум тоже деградировал, а снаружи в биологическом плане. Вот внутри была примечательная игра светотени, а снаружи блеклая пустошь, то ли с пеплом, то ли со снегом. Плюс заметны убогие текстурочки персонажей и монстров, которые гонятся за гг. Они сверхбыстрые, будто бы посмотрели 13 сезонов супернатуралов и чтобы играть в этот платмформер в отличие от лимбо или бастиона - нужна реакция и прямота движка. Прямоты движка нет, поэтому если гг просто упал между двумя преградами, а за ним что-то гонится то это - лосс. И ловишь полнейший саспиенс оф дисбилив повторяя это раз за разом пытаясь попасть в тайминг. Причем, повторять это довольно грустно, ибо звуки молнии, рычание местных херовин заставляет шелохнуться похлеще любого хоррора в раннем доступе. Не мешало бы поправить, рили. Притом сама музыка вписывается и звучит хорошо в сравнении с этими звуками. Если подводить что-то за такой промежуток геймплея, то всего-то могу сказать, что для первой попытки - неплохо. Подправить бы геймплейные механики, некоторые звуки и я бы отнесся с интересом к сюжету в дальнейшем. Притом, продолжая дегенерацию собственного организма в этом мирце

So first of all, the setting of this game is really interesting, I really like to see all the world that you want to show us, but things don't go where I want to go, I was blocked out of the world from the beginning, as a traditional RPG game player, I would not do the things that the author want me to do, I would like to discover the whole world, but that makes me lose all the interest to play the game, for the first 20 mins, I was enjoy watching the video and pictures to help me understand the background of the world that you made, but after I just run out of the gate, the save point make me can't go back, after 17 hours, I give up, there is no chance for me to restart the game because I don't find it, please check that and I really want to see what's going on in this game.

If you're in the market for a sidescroller that scratches the itch that "Inside", or "Limbo", left you I can say that this might be the game you're looking for. The story appears to be more ambitious and at the same time equally ambiguous from what I can see. Expect some bugs, glitches, and shoddy translation in your quest however. There's also some odd gameplay mechanics. But in short it's a solid sidescroller, and it was money well spent on my part. 6/10. Here's some gameplay https://youtu.be/KjR3xUvtqOw

adoro i giochi tipo Limbo e Inside, e ne ho giocati svariati di simili, con ciascun gioco che aveva la sua ragione di esistere e il suo perchè. Questo invece è talmente grezzo e poco rifinito nel gameplay che non mi è riuscito di passare neppure la prima scena di inseguimento. al decimo tentativo ho capito che questo gioco era veramente da dare ai maiali. Peccato perchè la direzione artistica era interessante

Game has a dark atmosphere and an intriguing story. From the beginning game starts to show you some scenes that you can't understand and almost all the time game keeps doing it. More you process, more you wonder. When you really start to think that Degeneration is just another stupid game that has any story or something, all pieces begins to become one. And finally you finish game with strange feelings and strange thoughts. It could be better with dubbing and maybe some pale colours in scenes but it is definitly worth to play.

I'm usually player of competitive online games but when i first played degeneration, atmosphere of the game made me curious like "what is going on in this church?" or "Why people are disappearing without any clue?". So i kept playing and the comics were good enough to keep me in atmosphere. The music was great. In the end i got a satisfying ending and a story. If you are looking for a good story, i recommend you to play. By the way don't forget to check my gameplay video : https://youtu.be/TR35405sAv8

I really really enjoyed this game until the stupid gate. I dont how to make it raise faster but anyways the music is sick, storyline is legit. Heres a little gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YYNDbjxQs

I can t recommend a game when I cant finsih it. Basically there is a boss fight that one shots you and you have to shoot them 6 times. I spent almost 2+ hrs and got to 5 and 4 once. If it would just maybe be the normal 3 shots it wouldnt be bad but 6 is making it near impossible. Shame its actaully got a lot of good qualities, maybe if it is revisited i will change my recommendation.

[h1]Broken[/h1] [b]Story Text and Language[/b] Though understandable, the English is broken, but that's not the worst part... some of the already difficult to understand text is cropped at the screen's boundaries, so even if you manage to make sense of the story, you're still going to miss some parts, and it just takes you out of the immersion. [b]Graphics[/b] The game only runs in full screen, and despite there being a few controls to adjust the resolution, anti-aliasing, shadow quality, and post-process, it's still jittery, and the game's speed is based on the framerate, so when there are drops due to CPU throttling (even in almost realtime scheduling priority), the music, and slide delays are sssttrrtreeeetcheeeeedddd. The graphics, especially the 2D ones, are hit-and-miss, some are alrigjt, but others are just plain bad. The 3D world, or at least the bit that I've seen of it, isn't all bad. It looks like they had a decent 3D artist, but the game feels like it was made by a bunch of friends under a flat hierarchy where nobody had the heart to tell anybody else what to do, how to do it, or that their work wasn't good enough and to go back to improve on it. While that's stomachable, the rest isn't. [b]Gameplay[/b] Speaking of frame delays, there's no way to skip ahead, so you're stuck progressing at the speed the game manages to run at, and even if the game starts showing you what keys to press, that doesn't go on, and you're eventually confronted to an unexpected monster that you have no idea how to deal with until you start smashing all the keys on your keyboard at random to try and figure out the rest of the controls (no, there's no "controls" menu, either, just a basic graphics options). The game saves automatically at checkpoints, and doesn't allow you to save at will, either, so if by some strike of luck you manage to understand the level designers' logic, and jump throught the very narrow hoops the programmers have laid out for you, you should be OK, but if you're like me and you didn't actually make the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing, you'in for a nice, somewhat pretty, and kind of appealing world of frustration. [b]Conclusion[/b] This is in pre-alpha state, and shouldn't be on the Steam store. There is at least a good three months of work to put in this to be able to call it a "game"; until then, it's a broken mess nobody will be able to play to the end, I'm sure... You have to very, very, very determined to be willing to play this past the ten minutes mark. Very.