I was excited to see where this game went when I got it, years ago. It really captures that Elex-like jank, with clunky movements, cringey dialogue, and crappy UI.
Now if you've played Elex or other Piranha Bytes games, you know that they're kind of a "diamond in the rough" style of games. Underneath all the bad is a certain, inexplicable charm that while not for everyone, did manage to capture a large following.
On this surface, Exo planet felt like it was going to be that. But as I dug through the ♥♥♥♥ I realized there's no diamond underneath. This is not Piranha Bytes. It's just ♥♥♥♥ piled on more ♥♥♥♥. Frankly I can't remember when I even bought this but I see it's been 9 years since it released to EA and is still EA. In the couple of hours that I could stomach playing through the intro area again, I ran into the same bugs as last time. Assassinate/sneak attack for example is extremely inconsistent, and doesn't proc half the time it should. Upon getting mauled by some 4 legged alien dog, I reloaded to try the fight again. I saved right before enganging and died. Time to git gud right? I reload and engage and all the sudden, its attack animations are broken. Just walking up to me and then doing damage without any warning/attack. It's pretty hard to dodge something I can't see, so I died. And upon dying I paused and tried to load to speed things up, causing the game to crash instead.
9 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ years. Pathetic.
