White Knuckle

the mechanics are fine but momentum is a constant issue. if you jump without moving first you basically hold still in the air. but if you move and god forbid you bump into a step of a bump, you lose ALL your momentum and plummet. abyss is the area i find this to be a constant problem at and ended half of my runs. terrible design and it makes generally getting around a pain in the ass, there are some areas in SILOS the first area of the game that you cant just walk over, they mostly are platforms with a pipe half way sticking out the top of the platform, even though there are many pipes that you have no problem walking on, you can't walk over these, you have to CLIMB over them. this needs to be fixed. there are TONES of games that have a "step up" mechanic. it wouldnt be hard to add one to this game in the nest, there are paths that are "bait" and are half the time, unrecoverable problems. for a game that makes you invest 2 HOURS to get to that point, running into these areas and taking the "wrong path" makes me feel like my money and time isn't valued because all i can think about when i died to them is the devs going "heh. this'll be funny." lastly, the MAGORITY of my deaths that don't revolve around these 2 things has been fundamentally CORE MECHANICS. some examples of this that happen on an every zone basis are... -the cooldown to grab things again after letting go or jumping off a grip -the harpoon grabber not being able to grab it because the harpoon is in the way so once it dies i plummet to my death. this also happens a lot with the normal ones but because the harpoon one targets you and rips you off of whatever you're holding onto, it becomes a MASSIVE problem that is basically not recoverable -areas like in habitation and abyss having areas where the holds are soo spaced apart that you HAVE to rely on outside supplies to cross and if you dont have them then you can be softlocked or you have to turn around and waste time trying to find a way that you CAN continue from. a good example of this is areas with the moths in abyss. if you land too low or in an area where the developers didnt intend for you to be at, there's mostly ♥♥♥♥ all you can do about it because they gave you nothing to climb back up -and this is the dumbest of all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but this killed my last run and made me soo mad that i came to steam to write a review... grabbers DON'T ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DIE WHEN THEY ARE CONSUMED BY THE MASS. SO ONE CAN ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GRAB YOU WHILE COMPLETELY INSIDE THE MASS AND DRAG YOU DIRECTLY INTO THE MASS. this can happen ANYWHERE but it happened to me in the DAMN NEST AT THE END OF A 2 HOUR RUN look... the game IS fun. but if you're ok with feeling disrespected and wasting your time over and over again because of stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like this, this is your game. i would suspect that you arn't that kinda person and you probably also play games casually. for you, i dont recommend this game. i will probably pick this back up once they finish it but i will probably completely forget about this game and find out that it was finished after next year probably. but i wont be playing this anymore after i finish it because ♥♥♥♥ this game