L.G.C. |Reviews| — The Girl And The Robot

Your intrepid heroes look at skyboxes, attempt to fight, and search for Coral. The Girl And The Robot faces the CHAIRQUISITION!

Game: The Girl and the Robot
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/270070/
Devel: Flying Carpets Games
Engine: Unity
Price: $9.99

Wazzat: The Girl and the Robot is a third person action/adventure game set in a fairy tale world where you take on the role of a young girl trying to escape from a castle ruled by an evil queen.

Full Disclosure: They sent us keys

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

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It thought about hitting 60, once.
Scream of nope.

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Unity scream of nope in 2016? Minus 2 Chairs

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2016: -2 chairs
2017: -3 chairs?

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Shiny / Sounds

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Welp, it looks exactly like their Kickstarter video… from 2013.
Well, not exactly, they added constant blue blinking texture goodness.
No turning animation (place camera over head and move L/R)
I almost want to draw the skeletal structure of little miss FK human proportions.
The animation rigging is placeholder at best, hilariously bad at worst.
Dat pixelated skybox.
However it’s easy to ignore when you are focused on all the jaggies.
Random piano music but that’s it.

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Oh the texture issues
I’d give it a little more than dreamcast quality. Maybe early PS2
The soundtrack is there, but it’s barely noticeable

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UHD Dreamcast
Ran almost the same at 1080p and UHD (15-60 ferps)
What is up with the fluttery blue texture thing that happens on the player characters?

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Control

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Jump, then try to turn.
Camera only follows while running.
Fighting is absolute shite.
Seriously, outside of blind luck you will get skull FKd if two or more baddies attack you.

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Fighting sucks
Context sensitive X button is lacking
Had to use steam overlay to map right click to the trigger button so I could aim.
Go go steam controller!

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Try to block. It seems to work okay… except in combat.
COMBAT === BAD
on the 360 controller:
- RT maps to move left
- LT shows in-game as “aim” but it’s mapped to the select button
  - That’s where the FKR is? #TIL
- D-pad left/right map to move forward/back… wat.
Steam controller:
- Used the generic 3rd person over the shoulder config
- Worked exactly like the x360 controller except the grip buttons were run and jump which was nice
All the controls are there, so it’s not completely busted
No way am I using the Unity Control Config screen of 3xNOPE to fix anything

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FUN?

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Remember walking into that empty arse-town?
Was anyone elks waiting for ranger Rick to run by looking for Coral?
Yeah, that’s when it really sunk in.
At launch it looked hella beta but that town screams unfinished prototype shipped as a finished product.
It’s bad enough this was all the Kickstarter backer received after a 38K successful funding.
Selling it as a baked game on the Steam is just a dick move.

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I get that this game is going for the Ico sort of gameplay
But it fails at it
The controls are borked, the graphics aren’t that good and the gameplay just isn’t engaging

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