There's an interesting and beautiful game deep down in here, but the execution fumbles at nearly every step. The controls and animations feel laggy, you jump through about 5 or 6 different environments in the first 10 minutes, none of which feel connected, and you're guided to sequences before you have any idea what you're getting into.

The first time I died, I was taken to a location I had never seen before, and the first interactible location took me into a dream sequence in yet another disconnected environment. After a few deaths from experimenting with things in this dream, I could no longer jump, thus completely preventing me from progressing at all. When I exited from the pause menu, I had to wait through the splash screens again so that I could exit from the main menu. Even getting out of Toren was unintuitive and frustrating.

Again, there is a great game here, but the number of technical and design issues prevent it from being a really good experience - or in my case, playable at all. I may have gotten particularly unlucky, but general QA should have picked up the issues I ran into.

There's an interesting and beautiful game deep down in here, but the execution fumbles at nearly every step. The controls and animations feel laggy, you jump through about 5 or 6 different environments in the first 10 minutes, none of which feel connected, and you're guided to sequences before you have any idea what you're getting into. The first time I died, I was taken to a location I had never seen before, and the first interactible location took me into a dream sequence in yet another disconnected environment. After a few deaths from experimenting with things in this dream, I could no longer jump, thus completely preventing me from progressing at all. When I exited from the pause menu, I had to wait through the splash screens again so that I could exit from the main menu. Even getting out of Toren was unintuitive and frustrating. Again, there is a great game here, but the number of technical and design issues prevent it from being a really good experience - or in my case, playable at all. I may have gotten particularly unlucky, but general QA should have picked up the issues I ran into.