Synthesis: Mind, Body, and Soul

The game on the lowest settings is too laggy. It's not really my PC's problem, since I can even run games like Warframe. It's a shame I can't really experience this game. :(

Synethsis: Mind, Body, and Soul is a student project from the Southern Arkansas Universities "Game Lab" school of game development. It's a Unity based third person brawler/shooter with a twist, you possess the enemies and can jump between them (a limited number of times). Progression in the game is a combination of straightforward combat and selective enemy possessions. It appears a reasonable amount of work went into level design, art style and backstory here, although hard work doesn't guarantee translating into a good product. The game comes across as very unpolished and badly optimised. The in-game assets are a mish-mash of inconsistent styles, but on the upside it doesn't look like they're asset flipped, they're just not very good. Gameplay control and handling is pretty clunky too, but the game does "work" well enough that it could be played... it's just not fun due to the defects, and it's not just game design and polish problems. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. I'm not sure the students passed the course here. As for gamers... well, because this was a student project, it wasn't designed with gamers in mind and doesn't offer a deep, rich or enjoyable gaming experience that professionally developed games designed to be complete products for gamers do, so I can't recommend it.