Air

Air is an unusual, somewhat casual paper plane/obstacle course game where you guide a paper glider through an obstacle course surrounded by scenery themed on the Brittany region of France. Only, if Brittany was a crappy HDR low poly hellscape. I'm exaggerating a little. If you may cast your mind back about a decade or so when digital cameras started featuring effects like HDR, and boomers made a habit of cranking the HDR setting up to 11, creating ghastly, overexposed looking seizures of pictures, well, that's what this game looks like. And it's a bit of a shame, because the concept of guiding a paper glider through wind gusts and avoiding trees and flags and power lines might even be appealing to casual gamers. This game could have worked if it wasn't priced so high and delivered so poorly. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... wh…

This is a very cool premise. Fly a paper airplane around a town. Everything works like it is supposed to. Unfortunately, the gameplay is very slow and not a whole lot of fun. Contrary to what the trailer shows, it is not thrilling to fly the airplanes. I wish I could give it a thumb sideways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fX8mZqzoeU

Looks terrific. Would be nice if the plane could actually fly more than 2 metres before dropping like a piano filled with anvils. Would be nice if there were checkpoints. Would be nice if there were explanations regarding how to control such a demanding and unresponsive little thing. Would be nice if pulling the stick meant going up instead of down, as no amount of options and remapping could fix that heresy. I've tried 69 times from the courtyard. Half the time, I have no idea why the plane falls (or fails without falling.) I've passed over the wall 3 times, barely got any further before the plane dropped for no apparent reason, and each time I had to restart from scratch. And some joker put "casual" and "relaxing" in the sales tags. Worst flying I've ever experienced, at least in a video game.

The game looks fun but I just get a CTD when I try to start a new game. I'll update this when I can play. I get 60fps on Soulcalibur 6 but can't run Air.

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