Star Overdrive

I really wanted to like this, but the world is just so empty and dull. Right when I was at the point of giving up I had just gotten the time stop ability after being awkwardly told I needed to go get it to complete a puzzle, when I came back I opened up some weird sphere machine which soft locked my game with no way to exit or activate the machine so I had to to alt f4 out. The main draw of the game is the hoverboard but you will spend most of your time gathering generic upgrade materials and solving platform puzzles, neither of which even allow you to use the hoverboard to complete them.

Prepare to be disappointed. An idea of racing around on an alien planet with a hoverboard sounds cool, and at times it is, but theres about all there is positive to this game. The story is pretty meh, you're trying to rescue your GF, and its mostly just finding videos of her talking for a bit and thats the entire story. Theres 4 boss fights, 3 of which are super gimmicky and dumb, the final is decent. Combat is pretty janky and meh, you unlock a bunch of abilities but most are just used for puzzling and are too situational. Some enemies can just randomly grab you with a magnetic lock on field that is impossible to get out of and you just die. The shield system makes no sense, as I don't know any way to recharge it and exactly how much is left. Many of the games systems are too opaque or just make no sense. The crafting system is the worst I've ever seen. You put a bunch of small mats into a pot and it gives you some random stats, you then need to use currency to buy. You then need to pick a specific part to make that may or may not completely change the stats that the game was telling you to use. You can't edit or upgrade old parts, just craft brand new ones. And sometimes you …

I really, really enjoyed this game. It’s an original blend of platform, exploration, and surf. And yet during my first hour of gameplay, I was a little confused by some of the choices made by the developers, especially the controls. Ultimately, though, the controls aren't bad, they’re just unconventional. Once you master them, the surfing feels incredible. Jumping from dune to dune, propelling yourself over hundreds of meters, flying at dizzying heights, it's simply awesome. The story is quite simple, and it would have benefited from being a little more present. In short, our character receives a message from his girlfriend, who has been missing for years. And so he sets off for a mining planet in the middle of nowhere to find his soulmate. The narrative unfolds through recordings left by the girlfriend, scattered throughout the world. Even though the story is very simple, I liked it and wish to see a sequel. The voice acting of the girlfriend (the only voice of the game) is really very well done. I wouldn't have appreciated this little story without it. The music is also excellent, it's hard rock! The visuals are stunning, the strange landscapes of dunes, rock formations, and me…

Very good game. Short and sweet it's a 10/10 game.

Well writen dialogue, good tunes! When it comes to the mechanical gameplay I did feel like I was constantly going out of logic and fighting the controls/physics. A lot of objectives and items feel almost unreachable and even after completing the story I don't think I'd enjoy 100%ing the game just from the effort I'd have to put into manouvering a hoverboard that feels like it could've been a lot smoother. I am sure that there are some things you can do with the crafting system to improve that experience to a degree, but it was pretty convoluted and not very well explained so I just kept dumping items and eventually I think my board was good enough, I beat the game with it after all.

This game totally shocked me - a true standout gem of indie games. It's got it's rough edges, but it's extremely unique and ambitious. It's very strongly influenced by Breath of the Wild, with some features being pretty much identical. But the overworld traversal, on the hoverboard, is really, really fun, and alone does a good job to set it apart. I unlocked fast travel quickly, but honestly enjoyed getting from point A to B so much, that I would often skip it. There's also a wide range of cosmetics for your board that it's honestly a lot to unlock! The art style is maybe a bit rough around the edges - there's an intentional graphical effect that makes everything colored stylistically flat but kind of edge-less, and it's frankly a bit off-putting at first. But there's a lot of genuineness and charm to what the team obviously believed in, you can really feel their effort and the best care they were capable of. The character designs are inspired in the same way, being someone's specific taste and it's hard to not find it appealing as a result. The hoverboard skins are kickass, though! The story is fine, but the final set piece really impressed me. It felt like they were swinging f…