This idea behind this game is fun and the art, voice actors, anything atmospheric are really good BUT...
-Poor optimization
-No sense of direction or what you're supposed to be doing (No waypoints, any sort of guiding voice or dialogue that can help you)
-Your abilities just can't be utilized in combat, I'm cutting them a lot of slack here cause it says that they're students and I'm assuming this is some of their early work but they should have either made it just a puzzle game or reworked these abilities to actually flow and work in combat. You have no idea what's going on, what you're supposed to do, if you abilities can even kill the enemy you're fighting or not, and on top of that each button is 2 abilites with either hold or click so more than half the time I was just spamming , guessing, or using the wrong ability
-Abilities are introduced staggered throughout the game, and this game is not long enough to justify not having everything present. If you're going to keep adding mechanics that are going to compliment each other then you basically don't get to play the game until the end, or the game you started is just completely different, I personally don't enjoy it when any game does this, doesn't add any sort of accomplishment or progress just new stuff I have to take the time learning in the middle of the game, super disconnecting
-Some of the mechanics are just....bad. Why in the world is there a TIMED x-ray power-up mechanic when all you use it for is trying to find a lever with it behind a wall....in A MAZE. I loved that part. Walking around each and every corner of the maze just staring at the walls trying to find the lever, but it got really fun when the power up ran out and you have to walk back to the beginning and remember where you left off, WOW!!! It was also super cool how enemies who fire projectiles spam them out at a ridiculous rate, they melt your hp so fast you may as well just have a 1 hit kill, and man do they destroy the frame rate
-Anything a first time game developer would overlook for quality of life is overlooked and not present
BUT BUT
This didn't stop me from downloading and playing through for free and enjoying some parts. The boss battles in the beginning (the more simple ones) are fun and the characters, although they have no deep and expansive backstory they can be entertaining. Core story is really polished and executed perfectly. The voice acting is well done and the art and details of the world exceed the average F2P Unity games you find on steam. The right click time manipulation mechanic was awesome, and should be used in a puzzle or platforming game.
Puzzle game or action adventure. Choose ONE for now because right now each is stuck in a tug of war and the game has no real identity. Overall, I wouldn't recommend downloading this unless it looks like the exact type of game you like (like a 3rd person, action & puzzle game??). It's not even like you can kill a lot of time with it either because it's short.
