Fermi's Path

[H1]Fermi's twisty turny path...[/H1] Fermi's path is another in the ever expanding genre of "reaction test" games. I like to call them youtube fodder, they're great when you scale up the difficulty and are able to produce reality bending feats of skill for the video replays, but in general they play to a pretty limited audience. The question is - is this one going to be specifically any better than say Super Hexagon (one of the biggest names in this area) or the more brutal Velocibox? [H1]The problem of good graphics.[/H1] The game -looks- pretty, with graphics running at a smooth clip, with a smooth palette of colours and vivid backgrounds, there's an almost ephemeral quality to proceedings as you glide along the "rail" towards your goal, avoiding various obstacles, both static and mobile, and you've the ability to rotate in ninety degree increments along the rail, as well as jump and shoot certain types of obstacle to remove them. Herein lies both the biggest twist in Fermi's pat...

this game is.... not that great. it's not terrible, but it's far from good as well. ------------------------------------ first of, let's talk about the positive stuff you're a ball that follows a straight path, and you go to the end while avoiding various ennemies the end. the concept is simple and effective! it's challenging and completing the levels feels like an accomplishement, which is great! now you might be wondering: "but then, why are you saying it's only okay?" well here's why. while the concept is simple and the game is challenging, it feels incredibely repetitive, all the levels look the same because of how simple it is, and I usualy get bored of it pretty quickly because of that. then, there's the fact that the "ball" you control blocks your view when it's in the air, and this can be pretty annoying at times oh yeah, and the ennemies can shoot at you, and you know, that doesn't sound that bad, and it's not, because you can shoot as well. the problem is that i...

Beautiful game. Traveling through the quantem world, this game is a whole other world. +Beautiful design +Easy to learn +Lots of secrets +Hard, yet not punishing +Don't even know what I am doing half the time +Long +Great music +Level editor (Need to try it myself) -There are no minuses (Wait, doesn't that create a paradox?)

Super boring! Its a week I have nightmares running off a pipe after playing an hour of this.

Good game, but the maps are kinda boring because they don't seem to change that much as you level up.

+1

Constantly crashes and/or freezes Edit: OK the crashes only seem to be happening on my laptop, and not my PC which is 4-5 years older but whatever There are still quite a few issues with this game: for example: in infinite mode, completing a loop and starting a new one makes the in-level music and the level complete music play at the same time, whereas pressing retry get rids of the music completely; it's also sometimes really hard to tell where objects are when you're flying through the air because the particle you're controlling is blocking your view Another edit: After playing throgh more of the game I discovered that the biggest flaw of this game is one of the core mechanics: enemies. Their shooting pattern is hard to discern at times, and some of the later levels e.g. 17 overwhelm you with them so hard that it feels like there's basically no way past them other than tanking a few hits. When playing on hard (which only affects amount of starting hp as far as I know), no matter wh...

This game I would class as a level-based runner (as opposed to an infinite runner) and it actually starts off quite nicely. Sure the synth-pop music may not be to everyone's taste but I really like it as it goes well with the action. The beats don't quite chime in with collecting the rings but there you go. (It's not a rhythm game.) Unfortunately, the developers throw far too much at you far too early and, likewise, ramp the difficulty up well before you've become accustomed to the basics. By Level 3 they're throwing so much at you that it becomes far too overwhelming and frantic. In fact, the collectables are designed in such a way that it is downright impossible to collect them all. As such what could have been a relaxing and pleasant opening for the player (where you can smash the first 5 or 6 levels) becomes an exercising in the player feeling useless at the game. Yes, it's easy enough to get to the finish line but leaving all those uncollected gems and tokens and whatnot behi...

6/10