Spectrum: First Light

The great anime promo art drew me in, but unfortunately the gameplay was mind-numbingly boring and needlessly difficult. In addition, the in-game art was extremely lacking, there was no voice acting...Ugh. Not worth $10, and not really worth buying at all.

[h1]Smashed keyboard simulator[/h1] Unmentioned system requirements: - A keyboard (or controller) stronger than your fists - Lots of lube

Everything about this is a disappointment. The idea sounded intriguing enough: a comic-based platformer, with some decently-cool-looking concept art pieces to build off of. Instead, we get the most bare-bones version of any ideals it was supposedly reaching for, built on a foundation of awfulness. The art was supposed to be the selling point; instead, it was just kind of meh at best. The story was abjectly boring, essentially describing situations in a simple, lifeless manner and providing no characters who were worth even a passing glance. The actual game was the worst part. Expecting to see some sort of integration of 2/2.5D animation with some elements of 3D (with the idea being we're literally jumping in and out of comic pages for the action), we instead are handed basic and ugly 3D models for everything from the characters and enemies to the scenery. The movement is strictly rudimentary, the timing of inputs is unreliable, and that impossibly janky boss battle with Envy will ...