This week your intrepid heroes pound the absinthe, remember our deceased daughters, and flap the bird.
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Game: Spate (WastedLand Too)
Webzone: http://spategame.com/
Devel: Eric Provan – Ayyo Games
Engine: Unity
Price: $9.99/€9.99
Wazzat: Fueled by absinthe hallucinations and haunting memories, Spate delivers a deliciously eerie adventure as the main character deals with the tragic loss and grim reality of the death of his daughter.
Makes with the working
V-
This game feels sluggish even on the “fastest” settings.
The fix? Lower the res ಠ_ಠ
aaaaand it makes the 770s’ run balls out
J-
CHoppy as balls on the steamboxen
Runs well on the nvidia powered system
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Shiny / Sounds
V-
It looks like the standard Unity lot.
This Christopher Walken on a budget wannabe narrator can DIAF
I fired up the Slayer ..as is tradition.
J-
At first I was like “Yay! Voice Acting”
…And then I realized this dude’s voice pisses me off
Atmosphere leaves much to be desired
Ended up listening to Rammstein instead
P-
Flickering graphical glitches and texture distortion on the open-sauce drivers.
Taking a shot of absinthe to trigger the hallucinations stops the flickering from happening. I’m guessing it’s a vsync issue.
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Control
V-
Controls are muddy and glitchy *glares at jump button*
Really. You would think something like jumping (for a platformer) might deserve a bit of focus.
Suggestion sticks
J-
Venn’s right, you need d-pad
I like the absinthe drinking mechanic, but it seems a bit silly
Also, max fall height…
P-
Even after reassigning the controller bindings to something more sensible, in both the Unity launcher and the in-game controls menu, it still refuses to use anything but the default setting.
Same goes for keyboard bindings.
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FUN?
V-
After muting the audio it turned into a LOTR walking sim.
Achievements? Pffft!
J-
Very dull.
P-
It’s like LIMBO, only the child is already dead by the time you start. Where’s the fun in that?
About 30 minutes in it forces you to play Flappy Bird.
There aren’t a lot of games that make an hour feel like 2, this is one of them.
Boring! So very drab!
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