Recent reviews by Bumble Bottom

I have a feeling the creators artificially inflated the price on steam to then sell it for x price. To sum up the game and without spoiling, it's an 'adventure game' where you climb and find emergency rations in a post apocolyptic world where the people have mutated. There is nothing else to this game. The characters other than the protagonist and the " city's" story have no plot other than to " guide you" (disappear at specific points). As it's only one path, you can imagine the complexity of brain power involved.

I decided to waste my time and complete the game to 100% because I was hoping there would be something more exciting beyond it ( also because it was pretty damn easy to achieve). Would a cutscene appear if I found the 'secrets'? Nope. Like many of the reviews here, the game is lack-lustre. The story itself is pretty straightforward and this is revealed without even collecting the secrets. It's missing a lot of important elements to a game and I would say the map is far too small to really call itself an adventure game. There's not really much point to doing any of the achievements other than the boat parts nor would I say the game has any incentives other than the steam achievements but they don't really get you anything.

The graphics weren't a* but they were pretty and I enjoyed the smaller details the team has incorporated e.g. the effect of rain on the protagonists hair + clothing. The slow progression of details from "chapters" such as the boat. I also enjoyed the dolphins, and other marine life following you once you identified them. The music was phenomenally soothing, and would appear in bursts throughout the game. I would definitely agree with other users that it was the highlight of the game. Were the cutscenes longer or narrated/ voice acted, I would have definitely enjoyed them more.

Several problems:

• If you find an emergency ration box, and you have decided to collect the stories later returning to the bottom is troublesome and I'd recommend finding as many of the boxes as you can whilst you're on your way up there. This added an extra hour or two due to the fact I had to rescale and descend from buildings through the very stimulating route (/s).
  
  
• The game crashed twice whilst playing however it does auto-save from your last checkpoint ( being if you find a secret, a boat part or a ration box).
  
  
• Whilst climbing the various ledge, there is a feeling of absolute nothing. There is no danger, no progression or no sense of puzzles. You are zen. You become Zen. You are also watching a youtube video just so you can say you've finished the game and when that happens, should you really be playing a game?
  Even when the boxes may have been up "other" paths, it was a pretty straight forward path and you had the evolved(?) swampy humans guiding you, The protagonist could do everything imagineable. Jump to a ledge the same height as her body? check. But don't even think about trying to divert from the climbing path. It was a " press your finger on the right button" game and the character did it for you.

Overall, play this game if you want to zone out but look at something pretty. Bad day at work? Wife is yelling at you? Boss is yelling at you? Got fired because you played a game instead of listening to your boss yelling at you? Divorce papers on the desk? If you answered yes to any of the above, this game is perfect for you. Otherwise, avoid the game unless you want to listen to the music.

I think this game, although rather outdated, is still completely epic. I loved the story line and I find it something you can get hooked onto. I'm not sure on the massive hordes of people running at you constantly. Though the interface ( I use a controller) worked rather well. It was quite easy to move around. The one thing I do feel slightly disappointed in is the fact you were given the multiple options within the story line where the outcome would always remain the same. Instead, it could have branched out and followed different modes. I find this game slightly more realistic than its more established, call of duty game and I would really recommend it to anyone that is thinking of buying it.