Played through the demo a couple of times, and I got the felling the premise of the game is simple: rip off the tiny bits of all the stealth games from the past few years... the grappling hook, the traps, the parkouresque animations, all things that made other games good are blended here in a lazy attempt of a stealth game. And I think that's Frozenbyte big mistake, they tried to deliver a stealth game while they should have done a puzzle game "hidden" beneath a stealth game. They tried the free roam approach while a "limited resources, no place for error" scenario would have work much better IMO. So far the most annoying thing is that my Xbox360 controller doesn't work in the item menu and the game has a wonky way of switching between K/M and controller (you have to pause and unpause) so using items is a nightmare, the same goes for trying to understand the key/button mapping. Music, though well composed doesn't help the mood of a stealth assassin/rescuer/whatever, it's more suited for an epic battle or a more action oriented game and at the same time uncovers how little attention the developers put into one of the most important things in stealth games... the surroundings, sound cues are essential in these games... Graphics wise I think it look beautiful (no graphic whore here) although far from the awesome high fantasy backgrounds we saw in Trine 2... I had a few slowdowns in the last area of the demo falling to 19/20 FPS with a FX6300, R7 260x and 8GB RAM rig. And then is the girl, a half done mechanic as she is useless, she doesn't help you in anything, only thing to do with her is point her were to go... with no markers on screen of your command or a way to see were she went or hid the whole thing quickly falls into a "f*** the girl, she'll catch up after I kill this guard" Anyway it's a demo, so try it for yourself, for me is a shame to see Frozenbyte delivering a half done game when they stood so high before. PD: sorry for my english ;)
