Caster

"Caster" — это когда ты думаешь "о, магия, фэнтези, огонь!", а потом три часа бегаешь по пустыне, как будто ты — маг, который забыл купить воду. Ты — маг, который стреляет шариками света, как будто это "Angry Birds" на стероидах, но без птиц. Уровни — как будто кто-то нарисовал "Minecraft" в 2009-м и сказал "добавим гравитацию". Сюжет: "я пришёл спасать мир, но на самом деле просто хочу, чтоб меня не убивали каждые 30 секунд". Музыка — как будто диджей забыл выключить луп из 8-битного саундтрека.6/10, но я до сих пор не понимаю: если я маг, то почему у меня нет нормального левел-апа, а только "ещё один шарик"?

jogasso

Really fun, great soundtrack, but short and abandoned. Absolutely worth a play when it's on sale!

A fun experimental indie runner-shooter with hand-drawn graphics and a standout soundtrack.

Goated game, as for 30 cents it met the requirement for one paid game on steam to play multiplayer. For the price at the time, the game was fun too.

Мне это почему-то нравится по фул прайсу ни в коем случае не покупать, купить рублей за 10 и отбить их карточками норм

An interesting piece which is like a mixture of Sonic and Mega Man. It feels and looks like a PS2 game right when more advanced physics engines began to emerge. It is pretty fun in short bursts but isn't going to be for every one.

Caster is one of the worst games I've played in a long time. I got it on sale forever ago for pennies so to see it priced at £8.50 is honestly shocking given that it appears to be a first project with little work put into it. Across dozens of blank landscapes there are generally the two objectives of shoot stuff and collect stuff. Fundamentally, that is the premise of a lot of games, if you're being disingenuously reductionist. What Caster lacks by comparison is almost an entire story, graphic or sound design, and apparently any QA testing as I gave up on the borderline impossible task of keeping the ship afloat in Acid Meadow following a level where I had to push a ball into acid with no real means to move the ball other than determination. I came in with low expectations and Caster still did not meet them. Again, seeing the game at its current price and its rating artificially improved by a bunch of meme reviews, please do not be fooled into making this purchase.