I tried playing this game, but it wouldn't work at all. It tried to access the Internet (something to do with aws.amazon.com), I saw no reason why this should be necessary and blocked it. The game hung entirely. Which makes it completely useless to me. I really wish that I payed more attention to the review that said "error out if you disconnect". A complete waste of money.
I loved Tron 2.0 when it first came out. The atmosphere, the environment, the general theme, all of it struck a chord with me. This looked incredibly similar and I pounced right on it. And in part, it is similar. I love the story. I love the aesthetics of the world, the menu screens and maps, the style of the log text, even the font. It all reminds me of delving too deeply into DOS and seeing pages of symbols and hexadecimal code. And I really do get a sense of "witness the birth of sapient AI" from seeing the transmissions from Hypervisor. I loved this game too when I started it. Exploring, reading logs, fighting off enemies... cheesing bosses by hiding behind the Stargate thingy so that they can't hit you any more. But then I reached the yellow level. I wanted to continue. I really did. I want to see how the game goes. I want to read all the logs. I want to watch the story play out to its conclusion. Another review says "The first comms level is a nightmare of jumping. You will get good at it or you will quit at this point". I quit. I tried and tried, but that particular platforming section is a perfect storm of annoyance. As already mentioned, there's no shadow and lining up the camera perfectly to match the platforms is beyond me. So I have no idea where I am, I miss the jump and I then have to spend several seconds falling down before the game graciously allows me to splatter against the ground. It then takes off a tenth of my healthbar and puts me right back at the start to do this whole platforming nightmare again. The weapon issues (can only fire when both feet are on the ground and while moving incredibly slowly) are a little annoying, but nothing I can't handle with a bit of thinking or panic usage of the timeslow function. But trying to jump onto a tiny little fragment of floating land with no idea as to exactly where you are? Sorry, Recompile. I tried to love you, but I just can't do it.
