Recent reviews by otac0n

I have beaten every limit time and unlocked most of the cars in the game. Here are my observations:

- Moon-like gravity means your cars feel like they don't have suspension.
- Infinitely Rigid collision physics (your car will do flips if you touch a fence or a small dirt embankment)
- The road is so low poly in some cases that you can get high-centered ON THE TRACK.
- Flat levels have generous time limits, whereas the mountainous levels have extremely tight times for even the highest performance cars.
- You cannot use the handbrake option on controller. It seems to just switch your camera to rear-view.
- Pressing the left stick (which can happen often during tight corners) switches to a rear-facing camera and requires 4 more taps to switch between different cinematic cameras to get back to a normal camera. This almost always ruins your whole run.
- No control customization, so you cannot fix the camera/handbrake issues.
- Menus require a mouse and cannot be navigated with a controller.
- Draw distance is shorter for trees than for checkpoints.
- Frame rate drops often, and the physics interpolation is rough.

All in all, what should be Zen is Quite Frusturating.

A highlight of the genre.

Like Fallout and Skyrim before it, there are TONS of play-styles available. Very moddable and the mods available are already decent.

Spare your wrists. Whack-a-mole (whack-a-potato) is a *critical* part of how this game wastes your time.

I got the good ending on the first play-through, and it is really aggravating for the main character to know about half of what you know for the last chapter. This, even after discovering some very specific evidence that COMPLETELY invalidates most of the dialogue.

It feels like a 100% console remake of the original which was a 100% PC system. However, they do an OK job of keeping the feel of the original system, and do an AMAZING job of story continuity with your older saves.

I haven't yet played the 3rd in the series, and I hope it finds a better balance between Keyboard and Controller input mechanics.

I never knew having a shotgun was an advantage over the chessboard.

It's like playing Skyrim together with friends! There are a couple of bugs that can limit enjoyment of playing together: (a) sometimes only one player in a group will hear dialog and (b) some interactable items that should be simultaneously usable but aren't. Beyond this, I have genuinely enjoyed pretty much every aspect of the game.

The combat system is simpler than Skyrim to an extent, in that it doesn't require precision aiming. Several other things have been simplified as well, such as soul gems. However, this is by far offset by the immense amount of content available.

For best enjoyment on mid-to-low end PCs (or in general PCs with slow storage), I recommend setting VSync ON, which will improve load performance of resources and textures.

Really short, relatively simple puzzler. I loved how the story unfolded.

The Forgotten City was a wonderful experience, aside from a couple of minor bugs (physics glitches during conversations, enemies attacking and making noise during conversations, and a couple of awkward repeated conversations).

I loved the story and all of the character interactions felt genuine, which made it enjoyable to help the characters with their problems.