Exodus

I guess this is what happens when graphic designers decide they can make a game without much input from those pesky software engineers? Let's pretend for a second that the very first thing I did with this game was select "New Game" and start playing. I [i]didn't[/i] and we'll come back to that, but let's pretend I did. The very first thing I'm treated with is an unskippable cinematic (I use the term loosely) about something I have neither the patience nor emotional investment in to bother commiting to memory. The cinematic looks like something a particularly talented teenager, or maybe a professional designer who has really under the pump and just flat out didn't care, might create. It goes for so long that I had time to reflect on it's nature, and post to Twitter about how games can do many things that film cannot, but creating animated shorts of dubious quality is not one of them. This is not hyperbole, [i]this is something that actually happened.[/i] And the unskippable cinem...

*** Edit *** I decided I wasn't going to let the game beat me and got past the part I ragequit on earlier. It took 26 more tries (yes, I counted). Since then it has crashed multiple times. Two times it reverted to a save that was 30-45 minutes old. I'm going to leave the review as a thumbs up because it is a fun game, but you may want to wait for a patch unless you are ok with this. *** End Edit *** This is not a full review, and I have to qualify it by saying that I have quit playing 4-5 hours in to it and probably won't play it any more. Things I liked: * Nice graphics. * Lots of skills. * Huge area to explore. * Controls are good, if maybe a bit floaty. Things I didn't like: * The save points are sometimes too far apart. * A couple of "cheap" tactics, like things falling on your head out of the darkness that you can't see to avoid. Why I quit: (** mild spoiler **) Moving+rotating platforms inside of a laser maze. There is a section where you ride moving platforms thro...

The game would be good if it worked reliably. Unfortunately, while it started off well, as I got closer to the end of the game it started crashing repeatedly, and the dev has shown no presence on the forums so I suspect these bugs are unlikely to be fixed

I want you to read this before just assuming it's me praising the game. It's not something I would tell most people to buy, but there is a certain type of person who is going to be all over this. The closest comparison I can make for this game is the Valley Without Wind series, but it's not nearly as deep (or interesting, if you ask me). This game is about ten times jankier, though. I shit you not, this game really feels like it was made by aliens, or some rudimentary AI with Game Maker or a similar creation toolset. The default controls include, and I am not kidding, Q to go left, D to go right, X to jump, and S to crouch. The text was clearly written in French and probably machine-translated for the English release. Massive amounts of the art assets don't match, with some being bright and pixellated, others being more subdued, and others still being 3D or a pastel style or... it's jarring, and makes it incredibly hard to tell what's a threat and what's environment until you've blund...

This is a beautiful game with a brilliant concept. I didn't really expect a platformer to encourage exploring, but this one does. It has you collecting energy points which you can spend in aquiring new skills/moves, you can then go back in the game to previously visited areas and re-explore them using new skills which has you reaching new areas with rewards of pages or new "energy points". Oh yea, Pages are just small bits of texts you can collect to learn about the world and stuff... pretty cool game highly recommended! P.S the sound track is very relaxing :) Sorry about any typos or whatever, I am very tired and I haven't slept in ages.

Can't start a new game. Game crashes at the first loading screen. Followed the suggestions on the post about crashing and still can't play this games. What a waste of money. You have to sit through to stupid intro story each time you try to which is a waste of time. DONT BY THIS GAME Also no controller support on a metroidvania game is horrible.

so, the default control scheme is ridiculous, and aparently rebinding it to a normal WASD layout was enough to crash the game... not off to a good start.

Exodus is a fine platformer. You explore an unknown world, gathering different kinds of powerups. Some instantly grant you new abilities (these are rare) while others act like experience and are used to unlock your skill trees. There is also nice variety of game play. In the first three zones, you move from exploration, to dodging traps to navigating in the dark. There was never a moment of boredom. So you know what to expect: Exodus is not a very forgiving game. It is not the enemies that are dangerous but the environmental hazards. You loose any unspent experience upon death. This experience waits at the location of your death, but if you die a second time before collecting it then it is lost permanently. Some users experience the game crashing upon launch. It is recommended that you download the demo first. I initially had trouble with this but the issue resolved itself after I updated windows.

it wont even get past the loading screen when i start up a new game, this is just a waste of money

There's decent challenges in this game, the music fits every area, it looks nice and.. well.. teleport. I got teleport halfway through the game, which means teleporting to anywhere on the screen if there isn't geometry between you and your destination. Didn't use much else for conveyance after that. It took quite a while before I put energy into any skill tree that would make me a better fighter, but enemies can be skipped mostly and do not yield as much energy as exploration. Early bosses are doable without combat skills and the fights themselves are pretty interesting. Some felt like a bullet hell at times, or just hell. I cheated against that secret boss by teleporting back to a checkpoint. It took a long time. Trying legitimately I never got past its second phase. In the very final area, if I went from the bottom east to the bottom west the background would suddenly become black and my character and enemies would be flickering and if I kept walking I would fall through the floor ...