Ballistic Zen

Ugh I'm so frustrated! Ballistic Zen was one of the nicest surprises I've encountered recently. I had never heard of the game or have any idea what it was about, but it was bundled recently and I decided to give it a go. I ended up giving away all other games in the bundle and just kept this one. And boy, what a delight! Ballistic Zen is a first-person platformer / parkour game. It controls basically just with the mouse - left-click to start or stop, right-click to jump. You accelerate by riding downhill or by quickly shifting between left and right. And ... that's pretty much it, a whole game built upon first-person movement, which I'm a sucker for. The goal is to ride "lines", which are courses snaking through the massive, brutalist, vertical open-world. It's literally so simple yet so, so enjoyable. The part that I hated the most is the realization that I suck at it. The first world kind of warms you up to the game. It took me a while, but eventually I was able to beat all the lines there. Then I went to the second world, and managed to beat maybe 40% of the lines. Third world, 20%, last world, none of them. I eventually made my way up the Pyramid, which is the end-game, and c…

[b]Loved the game here are a few notes.[/b] [b]Key remapping should be added.[/b] It would be nice to add the checkpoint button to my scroll wheel button (mouse3) and swap left and right click as I feel having jump on left click would feel better then having it on right. [b]Collecting.[/b] Ballistic zen's main gameplay loop is exploring areas for collectibles and doing lines. However it's hard to know how many collectibles you have left and where they are located. I think it would be a good idea if on the tab screen there was a separate screen that shows the collectibles for the area and which ones were collected. [b]This could be a counter like...[/b] Financial District blue triangles - 10/59 yellow triangles - 1/3 Or it could be a visual showing each collectible as an image grayed out and coloring in when you collect each triangle. [b]Achievements.[/b] Steam achievements would be nice to have. If they were to be added some I would suggest. -Collect all common triangles -Collect all rare triangles -Collect all yellow triangles -1 achievement for every area completed with all lines -an achievement for completing every line -talk to all npcs -beat the game (enter the car) -100…

Enjoyed this a lot more than my wrist did.

A really neat throwback to CS Surfing days

Its core is fun and unique. There just isn't enough content here.

Love this game