I think the first thing that should be addressed is that if you have issues with flashing lights and epilepsy, I [b][u]strongly discourage[/u][/b] you from buying this game. I don't have epilepsy, but I definitely had some eye strain after finishing the last set of levels for reasons I'll detail below.
I feel like I could write a thousand words on my frustrations with this game, but I'll do my best to be concise. The game feels incredibly unfinished. The menus are bad, the music is annoying, and the art and level design are not great. I spent about 27 minutes beating all the levels, and I don't feel interested in going back and playing them again. There are no medal times, so there's no sense of skill progression. There are no leaderboards, so I have no interest in tracking down other people's best times. Yes, the game will keep track of my best times, but there's no in game functionality for comparing times. Which I think is a really huge misstep when the levels have generic, numbered names.
I know the big idea behind this game is the use of the wormhole, but I don't think it's well utilized. Basically, If you've ever played, say, Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends, the wormhole is just a grappling hook whose point of connection is free floating and is fixed a certain distance in front of you. One of the big problems is that wall riding gives you too much speed, so using the wormhole is boiled down to slight directional adjustments or giving you height across a section. The most interesting uses of the wormhole, using it to do a 180 degree turn, where the center point of the wormhole still affects you (seemingly) without line of sight, something that ropes don't typically allow for, is hardly utilized.
This massive speed also doesn't jell well with the level design. The first act, in my opinion, is the best, since it gives the player a lot of room to use this massive amount of speed by bouncing between buildings. The second act locks you into tightly confided spaces with maze like pathways that make it difficult and frustrating to figure out what the right way to go is. The third act is also just as narrow, but this time the walls light up with your speed. This becomes an issue when losing speed can happen very quickly, and gaining speed can happen just as fast by simply touching a single wall. These levels gave me eye strain playing them, between the flashes of dark to light and speeding down narrow hallways with a bright grid pattern in my face.
The level editor is also pretty half baked. Zooming in and out is way too slow. Creating a path requires using prefab building blocks, which means you can only create tight hallway levels instead of city ones as far as I can tell. Prefab elements can only be placed at the end of the previous room. you can only use the second and third act wall textures (brown hexagons or blinding grids). It has no sound effects. pressing quit or go to menu while in the level editor does not prompt an "are you sure" or "unsaved work will be lost", it just instantly cuts out. Testing a level does not keep your sound settings from the main game, so I got jump scared when I went to test my abomination and the music jumped out at me.
As much as I've griped about this game, I think there's a good foundation here. As much as I don't partially jell with the movement and physics, I think there's something good here that can be developed on. The game feels more like a demo than a fully released, to be bought game. I don't think I'll be around to see it though.
