Wild Dive

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Interesting core, but lacks polish. + Colorful, varied, and full/detailed environment and characters + Alternative routes/route approaches (high/low/side/which skills to use) + Good speed + High variance in abilities * Mostly fast traversal and platforming with multiple skills (crouch, jump, wall-ride, grapple, dash) * Intersections within level, with walking, and the completion-time timer stopped * At times full speed is not viable (platforms need you to slow down) * Lacking default settings (not my full monitor resolution, not even half my monitor fps, not best graphics settings) * Checkpoints on level sections, but not very conveniently placed (frustrating part resets me to quite far before) - Too many skills in too short time, with only okayish introduction sections - quite dense pacing While I found having to drop speed for intermediate platforms frustrating, in the third level there's a full path of almost connected platforms and the characters auto-jump-on-edges leads me into my death. With a bit of polish in pacing and level design Wild Dive could have been very enjoyable in its own right. As it is, it's an interesting prototype with a surprising level of world detail.