The Giant of Torridge Island

Leaving a review because there were none, so I took a chance--I knew what I was doing, and now the least I can do is write up a reaction for the sake of others who come sniffing around, and also for the dev. It's too bad, seems like there's the seed of a cool game in here, and if the dev spruces things up I'd be all too happy to improve my review... plus, it always pains me to rag on someone's hard creative work, and this certainly gets points for its concept... but, just... not much else. First thing you notice is the giant controls painfully slow, the Y-axis of the mouse is inverted, and when you go to address this, for some reason the only "Settings" are/is: Toggle Fullscreen. I'm not even sure if I found all the controls in the game, because they aren't listed. All I discovered was WASD to gratingly, achingly slowly pivot and lurch your way around the sparse, garish island--your movement feels less like a bipedal giant and more like a tank in the mud--and spacebar to pick up/chuck stuff. The stuff itself is cobbled together from basic 3-D shapes in a way that's just a little too simplistic to retain any "simplistic charm," though I was ready to get with the visuals as I sa…

Game is kind of clunky. Difficult to navigate the menus and the controls are odd and can't be changed. Gameplay is a bit iffy as well but overall I did enjoy the experience. My end of day stats would occasionally freeze and I couldn't save or exit or anything. This would cause lost data? There is also not a lot of tutorial for what you could or should be doing, it is just sink or swim. The mobility as the giant is incredibly slow, kind of makes me bored spending so much time turning. My recommendations would be: A quicker transition between days without being kicked from the file. The ability to skip my end of day stats. The ability to change my controls. The Interface to be upgraded in a big way. Faster turning as the giant when not walking would be big but honestly any change in mobility would be better. More prompts for what you can do, I had honestly no clue what to do for the first couple days in-game. All-in-all, good game. I will probably play this some more.

not entertaining my camera movements are inverted while up is down and down is up and its not very detailed or good