Fading Echo

The game is pretty cool, but after just a few hours, you feel lost and abandoned. And that’s where the fun ends.

На самом деле игра никак не зацепила. Сюжет - не очень, всё сделано в роли двигающихся моделек в комиксе. Озвучка - ну ладно, пойдёт может быть. Боёвка - я руку разработчику целовал. У меня ПК не самый слабый, но не понимаю почему у меня всё время фризит в важных моментах, и поэтому у меня наиграно в игру 5.4 часа в среднем, и я прошёл игру) И слова разработчиков звучали под одним отзывом звучали так: "Что мы хотели бы аккуратно добавить: Fading Echo длится в среднем около 13–14 часов" - враньё, не более. Ставлю игре 4/10.

Haven't finished it but I'm leaving a review early because this game is SO COOL. Smooth. Fluid. Cool concepts. Decent battles. Awesome voice actors.

Unplayable with Steam deck. Even open Losses Scaling x2 game can not running Stable 60fps. Drop so many times 40-50. Action is meh, platforming is diffrent. For steam deck I cannot recomemended, for pc I dont know wait sale and check videos.

I can't play the game. Every time I launch it, it gets stuck on the first loading screen.

I feel weird about this game because, functionally, it's fine, and it does a lot of things well, but there's just something... off, about it, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Well, for one, the writing is atrocious. It's like, written like an average animated film except there's out of place swearing sometimes, and while some of the characters are alright, there's The Obligatory Annoying Character Nobody Likes and also the world's most generic villain who almost seems self-aware of how generic he is at points but whateverrr. The actual story is not bad, it's an environmental message told through the lens of an alien world, and the world itself is very pretty and interesting, but the way it's presented and written just... sucks. The gameplay is the part I'm mixed on because I like a lot of the ideas but it also feels like it's... lacking? Something? The combat is a bit weirdly balanced - the ideal way to play is to kick everything into pits and, barring that, into goop, rather than fighting directly, the different elements do not really feel balanced - solidifying is always 100% of the time the best option and it's the one you can always do so the only enemies who are meaningful to fight are blue guys who can't be solidified. Or enemies lacking an element. Combat never really develops even as they introduce the occasional new enemy (in an annoying fashion) but it's not... bad. And the platforming and puzzling are interesting, the mechanics are solid and make for a diverse set of challenges - the game never really felt stale on this front - but the tutorialization of some mechanics felt off, there were some things that confused me for like half of the game 'til I learned through repetition but it felt weird and bad up to that point, and even then there's some puzzles where I did a weird jank thing that felt unintended but -worked- so? Maybe it was intended but I don't know. The game is also pretty linear, despite sort of looking like a more open world it's just a main hub and four linear branches, one of which you can't do until you've done all the others. And there's hidden secrets the game keeps track of even though they're all just. Chests full of EXP or in a few rare cases an extra ability. Oh, about that, combat like. Only feeds into itself and rarely are you -forced- to fight so if it does get stale you can usually just. Ignore it. Which feels super weird. Your only reward is more EXP, which only matters if you are fighting, and really the only meaningful upgrade (I felt) was # of aether charges since they're just, Way more damage than you'll be able to put out otherwise. But yeah, all exploration is for combat, and all combat is also for combat, which might be why it all feels so... hollow? Since the combat is not the highlight of the game. The game is overall... fine, I can tell a lot of love went into it and the actual presentation of a lot of the poorly written cutscenes is great, it's just that something about the game as a whole nags at me and I never really figured it out. But like, I'd feel bad not recommending it just because of my weird gripes, so... I'm gonna, recommend it, yeah. Sure. Mixed review if steam had the option but obviously they never will.

Fin dall'inizio vengono scaricate sul giocatore esposizione e lore del gioco senza possibilità di godersi l'esplorazione e imparare tutto per conto proprio. Se fosse solo per alcune parti di gioco, non avrei problemi, ma le informazioni che vengono date dagli NPC sono COSTANTI: è insopportabile.