Derelict Star

For a game that focuses on pixel perfect precision, it feels really bad to have a movement system that feels so imprecise and frankly clunky. I'm sure players who put 6 thousand hours into the game will say the movement system is actually amazing, but seven hours in and I just feel frustrated with how little control I feel I have sometimes. Why does the game seem obsessed with constantly making me hover over two block gaps with spikes above and below? The problem is it (seems) to be a frame perfect input for the jump and no matter how many times I do it, it just does not feel consistent. This could be remedied by having a small sound indicator at the time you need to start holding or by just not repeating the same pixel perfect jump a billion times throughout the game. Also, for a game that advertises exploration as a main selling point, there really doesn't seem to be a lot to find. The only collectables seem to be qbits, which do nothing, and power cells, which are required to finish the game. The story might as well be non existent, so there is nothing on that front either. Overall, the main issue is that a game that requires pixel perfect precision shouldn't have such a clunky, unintuitive move set.

Would recommend for fans of precision platforming. Mechanics of using the jetpack are new to me and something I enjoyed. Would have preferred a bit more story bits.