EXO ONE 2021 - 1st Time Play - Simple Beauty is not for Everyone - No commentary - Read Description
0EXO ONE - 2022 -
1st Time Play -
No commentary -
Sigmar's Sausage
"I’m not sure how to proceed with this one…..bear with me and please hear me out. Exo One is a game I really liked but cannot recommend to you. You need to be of a certain ilk to get into this one and I really suggest watching a few bits of a playthrough and reading reviews on both sides of the fence.
I am giving Exo One the thumbs up because it definitely does not deserve a thumbs down. But this is not a thumbs up in the way that if you like a certain kind of game then you will enjoy this. More like I liked it, everyone else on here seems to be going gaga for it but I can’t help but feel a lot of the reviews here are part of the Kickstarter crowd or were at least following it. I honestly expected a Mixed or Positive average on Steam. Not an Overwhelmingly Positive for sure.
+ ground control to Major Tom. The whole space exploration vibe that this game gives off is neat and you get a sense of the vastness of the universe. You definitely feel very Kubrick 2001 playing this.
+ controls? I’m putting this as a pro but it only kind of is a pro once you become a master. The game is like riding a bike. You will fall off a bunch, get frustrated a lot and maybe even consider quitting. However if you try harder you will become a master and you will be timing epic drops onto the sides of mountains and then flying into the sky with ease.
+ relaxing. The game is pretty chill and its quite a soothing experience to soar through the air and break the sound barrier.
+ What you see is what you get. Exo One is very honest about what it is and you can quite early on decide if this game is for you or not and refund it.
THE CONS
- dive in at the shallow end. Sure the worlds are huge and sprawling in every direction but all those directions lead to nothing. It feels procedurally generated….until the game decides it isn’t….which should be the title of my next con.
- UNTIL IT ISN’T. You will run out of energy and fall to the ground until the game has something it wants to show off and then magically you will keep on having just enough juice in the tank to continue flying. The worlds unfurl in every direction with not really much to see until you get on the rails and head for that laser in the distance. The game wants to put you under pressure at certain points until it decides ok, that was a fun bit of drama, it’s all over now.
- controls? So here we are again. I listed controls as a pro. Yes they are fun. Until they aren’t. The games difficult camera angles make controlling very hard at times. There are points where you can’t even see your craft and just basically have to kind of guess and hope for the best.
- “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” Don’t get me wrong. I fully defend Dear Esther’s lack of a sprint button. I am all for taaaaaakiiiiiinnnnnnng iiiiiiiiiit slowwwwwwwwww. But the vast stretches of empty space in Exo One have one major difference from Dear Esther. Dear Esther had something special to gawk at in each zone you were in and when you turned a corner (eventually) there was another. Yes, the worlds of Exo One are amazing. When you arrive in a new world you will most likely be blown away but within that world there is very little variety.
- camera. The camera is so boxed in. Maybe there is a way to get around this by toying with the FOV but I just want something to work out of the box and the free looking around is so tight when you want to be just soaking in the entire planet around you.
THE CONCLUSION
A lot of the stuff I have mentioned are probably very minor issues and might be something easy to fix.
But maybe it’s me and I am very difficult to fix.
I really liked this game but a lot of the other reviews are really blowing it way out of proportion. Yes I know it was made by the holy one man dev team but the one dev ticket does not grant you immunity from criticism. This game is flawed. Massively flawed.
But I love indies and flaws come with the territory."
I am also flawed.
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