Energy Hook

This game feels very unfinished. Even though its supposed to be stylized some of the environemnt just look untextrued. The camera is ubearable. The swinging is ok at times but most of the level deisgns doesn't support it well. If it was free or still early access it might be acceptable but its not worth a full price tag. I've played quite a bit of Spider-man 2 and you'd be better off just going back to that game.

the developer of this game will tell you that this game is finished , i'll tell you that they're full of shit

Simple enough: It's the Spiderman 2 web slinging only with environments that take advantage of it rather than an open world city that just uses it to get to point A to point B. It's ugly. It's janky. The on foot movement is greasy, like you're in some sort of crazy momentum based skateboarding game with on foot patched in at the last second. The camera is almost nausea inducing and a near constant battle to control. Your character looks like a downie. But it's pure grappling hook bliss, fun enough to explore aimlessly without an objective, much less do crazy challenges on. The whole thing feels like a one man project, and I am pretty sure it is close to one-man working on the basics, but different artists do each level, so each has a different feel. You got a sci-fi dockyard, a couple of cities, and a canyon to muck with. Stat upgrades, extra levels, and linear challenge levels are all had through completing these challenges though. But this is the technical, no cloud grappling, pur...

There's a massive amount of potential here. Right now it's kludgy and awkward, but after a few months of polish ironing out some of the stuff I've outline below, this game will be so fun. Getting into the abstract shapes outside of a city would be so fun. There's not enough vibration for the controller. I'd expect the controller to vibrate on boosts sure, but then whenever a web is connected, whenever I press down on the jump button, and whenever I hit a wall. This could be the biggest thing missing beyond the animations. The web should be bend a little, it seems like it's always in a perfectly straight line. You'd think there'd be a bit of a bend in front of you as you get pulled along, and then chasing behind you a little bit as gravity takes over entirely. The tricks seem like they only make you go down, in the interest of building up boost, it's too much negative reinforcement, I'm looking to stay up in the air, and doing a straight X or Y trick costs me way too much height. It...

still feels unfinished, even though solid web slinging mechanics are there maps range from decent to awful, dont feel like they were designed for the game and all are tiny walls running mecahnics and jetpack are buggy and awful no re bindable controls suggestion even though this game hasnt been updated in two years: add mag boots to run along walls better and get rid of all of the ledges in the buldings.

just buy SM2 for gamecube, dump it, and play it on Dolphin instead. this ain’t it.

This game is absolutely fanatastic. Flying around just fills me with childlike glee and wonder. I love it, if you've ever had dreams about flying this game is for you.

Extreemly fun with or without the Occulus. Has a very high skill ceiling so you won't get tired of this game for quite a long time. I don't find myself roaming around exploring the way I did in Spiderman 2. At present this is more about finding your way to a challenge and trying to master the swinging mechanic.

A comparison: I 100% completed Marvel's Spider-Man on PS4. It's a really fun, ultra-refined, beautiful looking game that deserves the acclaim it got on a mechanical level. I don't know enough about the Spider-Man IP to talk about it as an extension of that but the overall smooth, pleasing feel of swinging around and beating up thugs was compelling enough to push me through every speck of major content. Now that it's coming to PC, Energy Hook is bound to suffer in comparison. It's a humble, barebones game, not in itself a flaw but it has led to a few frustrating moments with out-of-place ledges and high speed swings that send the player flying off the small maps. A huge title like Spider-Man doesn't have these issues and the overall experience is far more beginner friendly because of its unobtrusive flow and easier controls. So why write about a six-year-old game with very few reviews? Because, despite its rough elements, Energy Hook needs more attention for what it gets right about th...

this scratches a particular itch which may occur in some people from time to time and it scratches that itch perfect of course it's mainly fun for a few minutes here, a few minutes there - invite some friends over, have them check out this new little gem of a game,,, just have plain old fun for a few minutes, half-an-hour at the time it's exactly what it says in the description and if you too have this 'itch', I dsay it's worth the moneys