My positive review comes with a strong critique, I'll start by saying the aesthetic, immaculate, the vibe is great, it nails the nostalgia and really makes you feel like a kid playing in your own imagination. The level designs are solid, they rewards creativity, the maps are so open ended it encourages you to find creative and different ways to complete the level, and there's plenty of content, it IS fun to play.
HOWEVER, the mechanics feel like a roblox game brought to a double A studio, it really feels like a roblex parkour game, with poorly flushed out mechanics, most of which end up slowing you down and throwing you off.
The swinging and pole climbing I skipped every bit of them, they ended up slowing you down, bring you back a few feet before following through the swing, and just ruining your time, sometimes its so inconsistent that it caused me to fail the run.
There are so many mechanics that are just counter productive to take advantage of, you can play the whole entire game as a jumping to object to object simulator, and that's well in good, but why include the added mechanics if most players will just avoid them all together?
A lot of times it felt like i was just sort of cheesing the game, not playing as intended, and holy cow the cosmetics, I'll give them points for no in game purchases, but there's somehow so many, yet so little cosmetics to earn, I ended up earning like 50 hard hats while I finished this game, why so many damn hard hats? Oh and I should also mention the performance issues, the game had constant freezing for my rig, like freeze the entire PC, it took me turning off half the settings, dedicating a portion of my GPU, and turning the graphics down for it to stop constantly breaking everything. I doubt this is due to my rig being low quality, I have a little bit of an outdated, but solid rig, that can run most everything on high or ultra.
All in all, if you're looking for a kind of mindless, jumping simulator of a game, that is still engaging and has character, this isn't a bad pick.
