Sadball

⠀

this should be a really cool game, but there's some weird things that work against this and make it a pain to play. for 1: this game has no options, no way to adjust sound or controls or whatever, or more importantly like an fov slider cause the fov in this game makes it super hard to play and tell where you are going to land. 2: there's no camera controls, not even like a center camera behind you button like single stick retro games have. 3: there's no music, and that sucks. like yeah, seems like there's a bunch of tech you have to discover and whatnot, but it's such a pain in the ass to play it's not worth bothering to get good at it, just frustrating.

Currently having a bit of a love/hate relationship with this game but just for the expansive moveset alone I have to recommend it. It's not very user friendly, no real menu or options besides audio sliders, and no clear tutorial. That's usually not an issue for me, but this game is forced in 4:3 with a retro filter and I'd love the option to turn off the filter and play in wide-screen but... whatever, I can get over it lol the dev did fix the annoying bubbles that would obliterate visibility in some levels pretty quickly so I appreciate that. The movement is fun to mess around with but isn't very intuitive. Even after playing for almost an hour mainly focusing on figuring out a coherent and fluent way to move around, I'm left confused when suddenly the game does something unexpected with the moveset. I love 3d platformers and the first thing I do is figure out all the ways I can move so I can figure out what playstyle suits me. This game hasn't given me the smoothest experience when it comes to this so far... Despite all that there's still something unique and special here and any fan of arcade games, bowling, or 3d platformers should check it out.... just wait til it's on sale tho cause I'm not sure the content here fits the asking price

I'm reviewing the game having only gotten a little ways into it because I am just so terribly intrigued by it. There's more to the game than is advertised and the vibes throughout are immaculate. While the controls are a little too elastic for my liking, you can tell a lot of time and love was put into designing the movement system and that alone makes it fun to engage with. Please play this game, I have no idea why there aren't a trillion YouTube videos about it already.

thrilled to be sadball 10th review anthony ammirato approves this game

Best Game ever. Anthony Ammirato Approved!

this game is genuinely beautiful