BRIGHT TRACER

[h1] I would like to see this game getting a full release. So far it's more like a tech demo with super fast movement. Gather speed by sliding, jumping and dashing toward flying cubes (right mouse button). Only 2 levels are included + tutorial + boss, which is pretty cool by the way. Similar game TEC 3001. [/h1]

"BRIGHT TRACER" is a weird little tech demo of a game, a basic endless runner/speedrunner/3D platformer with some okay-ish looking graphics (thanks to Unreal), some polish and performance problems, and some pretty shallow gameplay. This runner does have most of the features you expect, wall running, a grappling hook thing, but the gameplay gets real shallow real fast. Which is not necessarily the fault of the game, it's endemic to the genre. However, choosing to make a game in a genre with all those problems doesn't excuse those problems. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more…

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Honestly really like it

Neat little game, that feels like boost Sonic levels, but much simpler since its a pretty small game and the levels are pretty straight forward. You have the tutorial, an easy and a hard level and then a boss level. You can just beat the game and that won't take long but the fun seems to be trying to get the S+ ranks. The normal and hard level play like a linear stage but there are some alternate paths along the way that can be riskier, but faster. You can sort of perfect dodge obstacles and this will make you a bit faster and I think it's necessary to S+ the Hard level (wasn't able to do it). The boss level felt like a boss from Sonic Colors, and you really want to do the perfect dodges as much as possible. It was pretty cool because it felt quite different from the other levels. So if you like those Sonic boost levels, this is a pretty nice small game to get those vibes real quick. I think it does it pretty successfully, although there isn't much to it (but I also feel that about the boost sections in modern Sonic games).

This is not a fully-fledged well-developed game. It is crude, with control problems and partly translated menu/guide (this has no trunslation at all). But for free to look at/touch - quite good.