Hob is a beautiful game and is in general fun to play. Before I explain the greatness, let me warn about some weaknesses: 1) In a cutscene in the very beginning the game crashed three times. In the 4th attempt I was able to pass it, although I don't know why. Fortunately this were the only crashes I experienced. 2) The game is saving at fixed positions within the world. This feels very much like older games and contributes to the difficulty of the game in a annoying way. Sometimes failing in jump & run means walking to the location with the difficult situation and start all over again. This could have been made better with more apropriate save point positions directly in front of those situations.. 3) One of the genre's biggest challenges is positioning the camera. While this was done great in most situations, there are cases where the camera position makes the game harder than necessary, due to a lack of overview or difficulty to assess jumping distances/angles right. 4) Controlling the character works fine in most situations. In my opinion the game could have more mercy with minor mistakes - at the edge of cliffs the character falls sooner than I sometimes expected it. 5) Guiding through the game: at a few moments I was a bit lost, when there were no waypoints on map or I did not know how to reach it due to something else that I had to do before (but was not indicated). Overall the weaknesses sound hard, but the game is one of those very rare pieces of this genre that make the important things right. The atmosphere is great, the graphics fit well to the game and are in its own way beautiful. A story does not appear to exist at first, but somehow the game manages to let you imagine the story.
I have rarely experienced a game with such a strong focus on gameplay that is that simple, yet challenging and addicting. At first glance, this game appears to be nothing more than for a short break, but there is always something you can improve in your metro...
