Elgvis Big Antlers Hunt

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Collectable Collectathons curator review: 2/10[/url]. A collectathon / Retro 3D platformer that harkens back to Mario 64 or PS1 Spyro, but so unpolished as to not really be playable. I’d love to be more positive than that because making a full 3D game is an insane amount of work and I’m sure plenty of time was put into this. But the current package just has too many flaws. It’s not all negative. I actually like the level design pretty well, with multiple paths through bite-sized levels and little mildly hidden bits. And there’s even some surprising and clever bits such as a level that takes place in a soup oven. Of course it goes without saying that the actual visual presentation is extremely simplistic, but that’s not really out of place given the retro leanings of the game. I would have enjoyed seeing the rest of the levels. There are two huge flaws though. The first is that the player physics is not very good. In a 3D platformer you can’t really cheap out on this. The player feels very floaty, making precision jumping hard. And although the game supports double jump, strangely some of the time you don’t get the second jump. Now, writing a good player controller is hard. But you don’t have to, there exist numerous cheap or even free ones that do better. The other unforgivable flaw, especially in light of the poor controls, is that it’s far too easy to die. Death just means being warped back to the beginning which I think would be a reasonable penalty, if it weren’t so easy to die. And if the controls were a lot tighter then this might at least appeal to people who enjoy the challenge. But given that the biggest pleasure in playing the game is getting to see the different bits of level design I don’t have any desire to have to fight the bad controls and replay sections a lot. In contrast to the character player controller physics, this aspect of the game could easily be tweaked to be better. None of the games this is trying to remind us of featured one-touch death. There are other smaller criticisms to be sure but I don’t think they matter given the two previous ones. To be sure the graphic presentation is very weak. However if the gameplay was better I think many people could overlook that. And there were some weird bugs, but nothing too catastrophic. My final recommendation is that this is not really worth purchasing. If the dev were to fix some of the issues above then maybe. Honestly I think that at this point the best choice would be to make the game free, or at least $1 so that at least some people would try it, and maybe even enjoy it. Here is my personal message to the dev: no one is doubting that you put a lot of effort into this, but there remains so much to do to make it a fully polished game. Reducing the difficulty and making the game free would be two easy wins that would at least get more people to try your game and that would be something. As it stands I have to imagine that most if not all the people who would buy this would just choose to refund in its current state.