There are too many games in the market to compete against I guess. And who knows, maybe I’ll get back to it now and then, for a level here and there, just for sport, but I honestly can’t say. But like I said, it’s the devs’ decision, so I honor this nonetheless. So much lost potential in my opinion, which is tragic.
If someone would have asked me as a beta tester, I definitely would have advised to cut some of those long and difficult levels in half, thus doubling the levels, and also make a lesser difficulty with higher star count. And the fact that I obviously need 40 stars for the bonus level (you get 1 to 5 stars depending on your time and how often you died), while the flying fish levels for me always just end with 1 star, err, it kind of breaks my motivation at the moment. I really want to like the game, but at the moment I’m kind of undecided if I really want to continue (meanwhile I finished 7 of the 14 levels). And to be fair, they even integrated a ‘skip to next checkpoint’ function to alleviate the grievances, which is nice for collecting stuff afterwards, but also fun-breaking anyway for any real gamer (after all I’m missing some gameplay through that if I skip them in new levels).Īw, like I said, I’m definitely torn inside. That said, the devs are making it clear that they wanted their game to be a challenge, so I respect that. Especially if you take into account that on your way you have to pick up some often hard to reach collectables (bread), and even if you get those in a try but just die afterwards, you always have to collect them again, starting from the last bad checkpoint (would have been better if you keep those once collected). Some levels are great and entertaining at some points, but others are hell due to some bad checkpoints here and there, and also some bad mechanics (yes flying fish, I’m looking at you, because of the awkward and unintuitive flying and jumping). But where it falls flat just is the fun factor in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, the graphics indeed are lovely, a lot of love for detail was unmistakably put into them, the scenarios are diverse, environments are highly original. But for casual to normal gamers, hmm, I don’t know, under these circumstances I’d only give a neutral to slightly positive recommendation. And if you’re into this stuff, like, you don’t mind repeating sequences a lot or cursing yourself (or the game) in between, then definitely take a look at that one. Don’t get fooled by the cute looks and the fun-invoking gameplay/trailer videos, no no no, I Am Fish in its core is a bone hard challenging 3D physics platformer in the tradition of old Marble Madness titles.
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