
Varial is a single player skateboarding-action game where you play as the titular character fighting a giant robot called the "Y.2.K.A.I.J.U.". The game takes place in a Y2K apocalypse, where all the technology has revolted against humanity and wiped out most of the population.
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Jet Set Radio for poor gaymers.
I really wanted to like this game, but the gameplay is very dissapointing. the game has a really nice presentation but everything else is completely lacking. the ui is very charming, the SFX feels impactful and the soundtrack includes several indie bands that really give the feeling that a lot of soul was put into the game. this game plays like its made by someone who has never played a tony hawk game. every decent skateboarding game ever has a jump on button release, this one jumps on press making the ollie feel less impactful. you can't do multiple tricks off of an ollie. grinding rails have no momentum, they're just rollercoaster tracks and jumping on and off multiple are nearly impossible. this is basically a skateboarding game that doesn't allow for player expression. the level design is very shoddy, eg: the entire intro section is built of floating parts, you can fall through the level, the ramps are completely useless except for 1 part where you need to grind some rail. the enemies kinda all do the same thing, theres sections where there's an abundance of them in the map and you dont even interact with like 80% of them. all the objectives are the same in each section except the amount you need to kill. it doesn't feel very well thought out. there's several weapon combinations but they all seem to do the same thing. also the crafting menu says i have weapons when i don't have the rocket launcher. if you're going to have an inventory system give let the player decide what to do with their inventory.
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not good in any sense of the word (except the models those are pretty good)
Thank you for letting me test my reviews
Задумка интересная, реализовано хреново... Оптимизация, дерганные анимации, враги пофигисты... https://youtu.be/wmLIGNmbto8
Camera angle got stuck looking down at my feet after I did a trick on a halfpipe during the tutorial. When I came down, I couldn't readjust the angle, neither with my mouse, the wsda keys, or the q key which recenters the camera angle to the original default view. The game was effectively unplayable at this point.
First thing I want to point out is I like the art style of the game, the style is visually fun while going around and skating and shooting toasters in the face with my gun + saw blade + spray can. Felt like I was in a comic book. The combat is alright it feels janky sometimes with the melee combat and the shooting feels nice as you can look everywhere and spam the fire button at everything.The lock on function is helpful for the melee combat but terrible for the shooting combat as the bullets do not shoot to the locked on combat. Still I can't helped for the amount of enemies there are in the game, you can easily ignore and not interact with them as some of the enemies won't target the player or doesn't move at all. Especially when you are on the back of the Kaiju, you don't even need to go near the enemies just jump on the ramps to progress and reach to the objective without fighting anything. The concept of a skating game with a weapon crafting feature is a fun idea, but I wish there was a difference in stats for the weapons like the pistol, shotgun, and assault rifle felt pretty much the same in fire-rate and damage. Plus, I would like to know where the whisk item is as I completed the game twice and still have not found the whisk item and would also like to know what the spray paint item does as I see no stats being changed while this item is equipped with my weapon and all I see that the spray paint item does is just paint the enemies in a purple color and nothing else, if you have an item that is not obvious to the player you should at least explain to the player what the item does. The settings was kinda of a big disappointment for me since I could not save the settings that I wanted. For example I increase the volume of the music setting then press the save button, nothing changed and the setting defaults back to the original volume. I also experienced some of the settings toggling on and off without any interaction while going in and out of the settings menu. Tutorials is clean, easy to understand with the use of videos to support the texts. The sound track of indie bands fits really well with the game. The modeling of the player is nice especially the over dramatic death animation. I still recommend this game as there are some parts that can be fun like extending combos, how many items you can collect, and how fast you can complete the game in general. Bugs: Shooting while the tutorial pops ups at the same time makes the player automatically shoot Spamming the spacebar while going on the ramp cancels the animation Looking around rapidly before going on a ramp will hard lock the players camera to the ground (Dying does not reset) Clicking out of the game and clicking back to the game glitches the UI buttons and can not continue playing the game When paused the skateboard sound effects will continue to play
Varial, "Y.2.K.A.I.J.U." adlı dev bir robotla savaşan ana karakter olarak oynadığınız tek oyunculu bir kaykay-aksiyon oyunudur. Oyun, tüm teknolojinin insanlığa karşı isyan ettiği ve nüfusun çoğunu yok ettiği bir Y2K kıyametinde geçiyor.
"Varial" is an arcade skating game, a bit more shallow than the Tony Hawk games but free, and on Steam. There's a weird plot attached to it, but the crux of the game is doing skateboard tricks. Like, the Varial, which is a combination of a shove-it and a kickflip that just makes the board spin around under you. Skateboarders love it. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.
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