Cari Drolet

Not a good switch port, but the play throughs I’ve seen using VR on PS4 look great! If you only have a switch, the game is frustrating. It was clearly meant to be played in VR, and playing it with stick controls is...pretty awful.

The version ported to the Nintendo Switch is SUPER BUGGY. The QT commands don’t always appear, which can make it seem like there’s no way to complete some of the quests. The textures and colors don’t render—and I don’t mean there’s a delay, I mean that some things (e.g., parts of faces, parts of hair color and texture, half of a wagon) just never fully render. There’s also the issue with the game freezing up and having to reload all the darn time. At the moment, though, the thing that’s really bugging me is that I started a conversation with an NPC and there’s no dialogue options, the characters aren’t saying anything, and the subtitles aren’t showing up. I’ve been trying to get out of this for ten minutes, but I seem to be stuck in a never ending staring contest between Dr Reid and Darius (they just sway and move their arms while staring into each other’s eyes). This game was almost twice the cost of the PC version and is even more buggy than the other versions! Rip off!

I was seriously enjoying this game, but several of the levels rely on a wall slide mechanic that is REALLY buggy. I even resorted to using the d-pad to try and get around how inconsistent the wall slide is, but that barely helped. This was really disappointing and ruined the whole experience for me.

Octo expansion was a waste of money. Just stupid arcade games that are all key smashing and no strategy. Same glitchy camera bs as in the rest of the game, but worse in the expansion. Really disappointing.

There are a lot of things I really like about this game, but there are some frustrating flaws that keep me from loving it. The camera controls in particular are SUPER glitchy. Especially in the later levels, it will random go from looking behind the character to at the ground and up close. Good concept, but they definitely need to issue some updates that fix the glitches!

I didn’t see the original, but my friends told me about it. The information about the original is what piqued my interest in the Netflix series. It’s geared toward young kids (Y7), so it’s got some campiness to it for sure: there are ham-fisted lessons about team work, the adults are largely oblivious and silly, etc. The underlying idea is interesting and the arc concerning the Sourcerer is okay. The show is, by no means, the best thing I’ve seen (I’m also not the target audience) but it is entertaining.

I recently watched the extended cut and it was really good! I think some of the things that were cut for the theatrical release were important for understanding the plot (e.g., the villain's motives).