Unfortunately, the gameplay itself does not reflect what is shown in the promotional material, even though the gameplay shown is so basic.
No wall-running is taking place in this game, instead, you can gain a boost (jump) when your character touches the wall component in the game. The player does not interact with the wall in any way. There's just a collision check, and if you're touching the wall component, and press space, you will get a boost. You can literally just hit the wall head-on, press space, and suddenly gain as much momentum as you would if you were to pass by it. It's crazy how little attention was put on the only game feature in this game. It's a mechanism that can be implemented in Unity in literally 10 minutes.
The movement is very annoying and uncontrollable. Not in a fun "rage-game" way, just in a bad way. It's relying on the built-in unity physics system, with the in-air controllability reduced to barely a minimum. It's just not fun at all.
I played this game due to a post on Reddit from the creator complaining about lack of sales. I put more effort making this review, than the dev made in creating this.
My initial thought was “oh it's just a simple running game, but the art-style is primitive, I'll give it a go”. But it's not even that. The core mechanism is annoying, uncontrollable and sometimes broken.
Speaking of broken:
— The script for wall-jumping is applied to the legs of the walls also, so you can jump off them too.
— The wall jumping is only registering under certain conditions, the back of the wall does not always register jumps.
— Because the game relies on built-in physics system of the unity engine (player is a rigidbody), you sometimes get glitches, where if you approach the wall you will completely stop. No idea why using physcis engine for this game, given that player is the only thing that moves on the map.
— There are no movement sounds or any other audio effects in the game save for an annoying loop of some techno song.
- There is an effect in the main where, if you switch between map options, the music changes mood. Very nice, but next time focus on the gameplay before spending time adding stuff like this.
More heart and dedication is needed. Refunded.
