Recent reviews by Mixxiphoid

Finally received a legendary drop after 8897 hours and the achievements didn't trigger. :(

Broken mess. Devs said they fixed stuff, but it doesn't matter.
Both achievements and game progression are broken by various bugs.

Avoid.

At least half of the achievements are broken.

Controls are the absolute worst. The ball seems to move in a limited amount of angles when you want to move it. It rarely aligns to where you click and because of that, a lot of luck is involved instead of skill.
Be prepared to be frustrated, raging and annoyed to tears.

To level 44, I hate you.

The latest achievement regarding air drops requires you to create an account with a third party that will sell your information. This is clearly stated in the texts you need to consent too.
'Your infromation' includes bank account info, family members names, your signature, etc... Everything that is needed for a solid identity theft.

Shortest Prince of Persia game since Sands of Time, took me a bit less than 6 hours. I felt the controls very slighly better compared to the previous ones, which was a relief. I didn't experience any glitches or bugs, so I'm not sure what the negative reviews are talking about.

The story was worse than the sands trilogy and it felt like they cut corners on the abilities. I didn't even use abilities until well over half way through the game because I didn't know it was bound to the keys 1-4, as if it was designed for consoles first and then reminded themselves it needed to run on PC too.

If you are a fan, get it on sale.

With each new level being added I hate the game more and more. Every few months the game gets an update and I discover I no longer finished the game and got 4 new achievements to get. Yes, I'm a completionist! (And I'm proud of it!)

The game mechanics are purposefully clunky, which is fun for ragdoll effects and for a few levels. But when you simply try to finish the level it gets highly irritating and annoying. Especially when combined with glitches, such as getting stuck to the point you have to reload the last checkpoint.
The puzzles aren't that hard, it is the controls that make you lose your mind because you already tried this swing for 15 times or this precision jump with a blob of a character.

The point is, it sure starts out fun, but right now the gameplay is equal to suffering if you aim for 100% completion.

This is the type of game where you stare at the credits rethinking your life after finishing the game.
I doesn't take long to finish, about 3 to 4 hours. I would recommend playing the whole thing in one go for the best experience.

Pros:
- Awesome story
- Nice graphics

Cons:
- Controls can feel a bit cluncky at times
- 32bit game that doesn't have that many options to tweak graphical settings

Had to write my own software to find out that often the puzzle is generated unsolvable.
Here is some code for the dev to fix that:

// nums is a matrix representation of the puzzle, e.g.
// { 4, 1, 8}
// { 3, 5, 6}
// { 7, 2, 0 }
static bool IsSolvable(int[] nums)
{
int inversions = CountInversions(nums);
if (Size % 2 == 1) // For odd grid size
{
return inversions % 2 == 0; // Solvable if even number of inversions
}
else // For even grid size
{
int blankRow = EmptyRow + 1; // 1-based row index of the blank tile
return (inversions + blankRow) % 2 == 1; // Solvable if sum of inversions and row number of blank tile is odd
}
}

static int CountInversions(int[] nums)
{
int inversions = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < nums.Length - 1; i++)
{
for (int j = i + 1; j < nums.Length; j++)
{
if (nums > nums[j] && nums != 0 && nums[j] != 0) // Exclude the blank tile (0) from inversions count
{
inversions++;
}
}
}
return inversions;
}

Absolute garbage. Unplayable if you use a controller. If you don't touch the controlls, the car leans to the right. The handling is straight nightmare material. Also, 'Finding players...' when starting a single player game?
I have played many NFS games and this is one of the worst.

I got almost 2000 games in my library and this is my first refund ever since I created my steam account 8 years ago. What a shame.