JETRUNNER

Excellent and very polished speedrunning game that deserves to be more popular.

hella fun

The name of the game refers to a competition involving obstacle courses where you perform parkour with the help of your abilities. There are six chapters, each set in a different environment and featuring ten stages that you must complete in order.. Although there are conversations between the main character, her friend, and the commentator during the stages, the focus is really on the fun and challenging courses. Your abilities are not that different from those in a typical first person game. Besides movement, you can jump and perform an air dash that works both on the ground and in the air. It needs to recharge after each use, but this only takes a second. There is also wall running, which triggers automatically when you jump into a wall while keeping your view forward. Special abilities come into play when you pick up their icons, which are always placed at preset locations to help you tackle each course. The first is a gun that you use to shoot targets along the track. This is the most important ability because if you miss even one target, the finish line remains locked and you cannot complete the run until you shoot them all. The number of targets required to unlock the exi…

underrated

Overall it's a very good game. If you like this type of precision fps style game, you will have tons of fun figuring out the levels and honing your best times. Now to be pedantic: There are lots of hitbox issues where it feels like your character should be making contact with the ground / wall / goal, and you just miss it. Momentum will sometimes just randomly change even though you do the exact same moves though the level. The "water spheres" are just stupid, janky hitboxes, you have to double mash the sprint, and it counter to the momentum of everything else in this game. I honestly felt like the level design in the later stages got a lot worse; hiding the goal behind walls you cant see the first time around, weird loop-backs on the course that are not clearly called out; makes for a frustrating first experience on some of the later courses.

Would be a good game if it didn't have such janky wall running and glitchy wall conveyor belts