Posted on: December 29, 2024
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A Rather Murky Affair...
Warp Frontier is a traditional point-and-click adventure game. Presentation-wise, the game offers detailed backgrounds, however the characters have animations that scream "low budget". Most of the game animations do, in fact. The music is not particularly memorable, but it works for ambience, and the sound effects are equally unremarkable, but passable. The story has some intriguing ideas, but honestly the main plot point, once revealed, will have you scratching your head, as it feels very stupid and contrived. It technically intersects with the protagonist's own story, but again it all feels a bit too convenient at times. While the game handles character drama well, the big ideas about droids, human consciousness and big conspiracies are fumbled and rushed. The game has a barrage of puzzles. Some are admittedly cool and/or smart (the game also has multiple solutions, and you can do better by picking "more appropriate" approaches), but there is a long, LONG set of busywork puzzles, which require you fiddle with the clunky inventory UI: scrolling with the mouse wheel doesn't scroll the inventory, instead it "auto-equips" through it, while you are forced to navigate left and right the TON of items you get by clicking the arrows on the screen. To top it all off, you have to walk back and forth certain screens over and over again for repetitive tasks. The way some choices can have long-term outcomes is ambitious, but the ending feels unfortunately rushed, which limits the possibilities on this front too. While nothing is horribly wrong with the game, it never comes together as a good experience. If the game had better pacing, or a better thought-out story or better puzzles (and shorter animations when flying from one area to the other!) this could have been a very solid adventure, however it shines too rarely to hide its flaws. As it is, it's too fiddly and confused to provide enough entertainment for the average adventure enthusiast. Wasted potential for much more.
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