I bought this game having seen it's trailer expecting a somewhat similar-ish experience to games like Inside or Limbo e.g. some puzzle solving, a story that emerges throughout the game, simple yet beautiful artistic design, great music etc. Unfortunately I think this game just simply doesn't quite put it together in a way that's satisfying / entertaining. Pacing was not great. There's too much time you spend doing "nothing", just refueling your car and picking up fuel on the ground. Because you need to be constantly doing things in the vehicle you never really have a chance to relax and look at your surroundings. Not that if you could it would be very interesting. t I felt like the game had way too much time just displaying a barren landscape with nothing interesting to observe / learn about the world. Puzzle solving was too simple or frustrating. Sometimes you can just plow through obstacles, other times you can't. Sometimes the hooks on the machine can only go so long, other times it extends to an infinite distance (because you are supposed to use it). The former case where sometimes you can plow into things is so frustrating because you always try that first and then sometimes you aren't sure whether or not you were going fast enough so you waste time backing up the vehicle and trying again wasting fuel in the process. Also Idk if it was just me but I was expecting the game to push some sort of connection with the vehicle I was in because how you constantly were supposed to take maintain it and it seemed like it was your companion in your journey. Nope, just busy work really. Artistically it looks good, the music was ok. I thought the use of music ranged from good to a bit mediocre. Overall, a disappointment to me. The latter half of the game was just felt like a chore to finish.
