Spate

飲んだくれの親父が娘が死んだ理由を探しに行くゲーム。 精神的恐怖要素が多少あるけど、それがすごくいい感じ。 ただ、丸鋸はいらないかな。

It's not about the design or if this game is hard, this game evolves around story and atmosphere. For me it was a nice experience

Good: Visuals, some challenge here and there, the storyline has entertaining elements. Bad: Way too linnear, storyline makes little sense, a lot of running, jumping, sliding, climbing is repetitive only to show you the nice landscapes and poor level design. The platforming aspect was much better in Limbo. If you find it cheap this is barely a thumbs up.

Beautiful level design, no doubt about it. But not really all that much game. A significant portion of it has to be running to the right. Also yeah, we get it guy, your kid is dead and you drink a lot of absinthe (the game constantly reminds you if you ever manage to forget).

Die surreale Welt ist ja schon ganz nett, aber mehr als herumlaufen, hüpfen und rutschen sowie Sägen ausweichen ist hier nicht geboten. Rätsel, Feinde oder sonstige Herausforderungen sucht man hier vergeblich. Die Musik fand ich gut, aber auch irgendwie bedrückend. Es gibt einige sehr nervige Stellen, sodass ich mehrere Male an einem der gut verteilten Checkpoints neu starten musste. An manchen Stellen zoomt das Spiel so weit raus, dass mein Charakter winzig klein wird. Nach gut zwei Stunden Spielzeit war es dann zum Glück schon zu Ende. Also da fand ich Limbo oder Inside um Längen besser.

I feel really bad talking crap about this game, since it's a passion project that was basically created by only two people (dude named Eric seems to have made the concept, a dude named Temo did all the programming stuff), and it genuinely looked really cool. Unfortunately, it's not a very good game. Also spoilers. This game is really friggin' boring. Yes, the screenshots do look kinda cool, and there are some nice graphics, but literally all you do for over half the game is walk to the right, sometimes jumping from platforms with no skill needed, while the main character goes on and on about his deceased daughter (the game really likes to remind you of this fact) and being an alcoholic. There's some really easy puzzles, sections where you press up over and over to fly a plane thing (again, super easy and extremely boring), and one section where all you do is jump occasionally while sliding down a hill for what feels like 30 minutes. Plot wise, you're a detective hired to go into this zone to find a missing man, there's an evil scientist there that I think infected the zone and killed everyone there somehow for some reason, there's this robot who rambles about lamps, and then you find the scientist's lair after 3 hours of nothing, kill him, and Spate is completed. Yes, I know I skimmed through, but this game is so insanely boring that I completely stopped caring about what happened in the plot. Stuff just kinda happened with no real explanation (or maybe there was, but the gameplay caused me to be really apathetic about it all), and your character talked a lot about his daughter and alcoholism. It just wasn't that memorable, and the monotonous gameplay did not help my opinion of this game at all. So, yeah, this wasn't very good. Like I said, I feel bad about dissing this, since this was clearly something the dev really wanted to create for the world. I just think that if he had a few more people to help him with writing and gameplay, this could've been pretty good; I actually thought the graphics and some of the environments were really nice in my opinion. Hope he can improve if he wants to make more stuff.

Great and relaxing game albeit short. However it tells the tale slowly and it makes you ponder life and the choices that we make that impact us on the long run.