Haste

good

TLDR: This game is a ton of fun and you should absolutely buy it. What it is: Haste is a roguelite game about navigating an obstacle course as quickly as you can. Your objective is to complete each stage as quickly as you can by finding the fastest route and controlling your character effectively in order to maximize your speed. Gameplay: For the most part the running happens on its own. Controls are used to steer the character, activate power-up items you acquire over the course of a run, and most importantly, to control the rate at which you fall from the sky. Your character will spend a great deal of time airborne as you launch off of hills, and the central mechanic to keeping your speed up is controlling how you land. The softer the landing, the more of your speed you retain. It's a simple mechanic, but it plays into nearly every system of the game. The other primary mechanic of the game is your character's Energy bar, which is consumed to use their starter equipment and regained on skillful landings. Starter equipment ranges from a hoverboard that increases your speed, to an item that slows down time and allows you to completely change your character's vector. These items serve as the core of your strategy for the run, and you'll choose your powerups to take as much advantage of them as you can. The campaign includes boss fights which are mostly about ramming into the correct weak point at the correct angle. Each encounter requires just enough tactical thinking and reaction speed to make completing the stages satisfying without being overly difficult. As you progress through a run you will acquire currency to purchase powerups. These come in the form of permanent boosts to your character (such as increasing your acceleration on a perfect landing) or usable items (such as an item that temporarily boosts your speed for a short time). Putting together a combination of items strategically can make your run much easier and far more satisfying, and there are plenty of strategies to choose from. Graphics: Graphics are clearly defined and very colorful, hit-boxes make sense, and the art style is fun. Stages are varied, with different biomes providing different kinds of hills and hazards to navigate. Each stage is a fresh experience. Sound and Music. 99% of the game's sound comes from its music, which consist primarily of tracks designed to keep your heart rate above a certain level while fitting the vibe of the stage. The tracks are well composed and serve as an excellent backdrop to the gameplay Performance: This game will run at an excellent framerate even on older machines. Optimization is on point, and I rarely, if ever, see any drop in performance even when things get crazy. Where this game excels: Power ups, equipped items and stage design all open up new options for movement tech that is a ton of fun to discover. For example, an item that guarantees a "perfect" landing allows you to dive extremely aggressively to build up a ton of speed, then come out of that landing at an impossible angle that retains all of that speed you built up. As you get faster you can start to turn obstacles into advantages by hitting them at the correct angles or by circumventing them in ways that wouldn't be possible at lower speeds. You are never forced to handle things a specific way, and the level of creative freedom this brings to a run is perhaps the best aspect of this game. Finally, the level of difficulty is incredibly customizable. You can tweak settings to make landings easier to manage, or you can ramp up the number of obstacles in a stage to a ridiculous degree. There are plenty of accessibility options to suit your level of play. Things that could be improved: At this point anything that needed improving has already been fixed by the devs. The game is in a fantastic state and clearly shows the dedication and care of the creative team behind it. Final thoughts: If you enjoy the freedom of speed and flight then this is the game for you. Even after the campaign it's something I still come back to on a regular basis, and it's one of the most fun to play games I've ever experienced. In my opinion this one is a must-buy even at full price.

爽就完了！

Great game :D

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