Caribbean Odyssey

An interesting idea, but this game falls very short. Bad voice acting, terrible costumes (Why are there fully armored knights in the 18th century?), poor controls, no menu system, ok graphics, odd level design, large spinning item drops... basically, a very rough entry into game making. Better design, better voice acting, and better research into the period would make this a much better game.

I could only stand this garbage for about 10 minutes - it's a buggy, janky mess right from the start. The fact you can confusingly continue to interact with the main menu after pressing "start", instead of getting a loading screen, shows no care was taken to polish this. The tutorial is mostly useless, and there is no menu or controls screen to tell you how to play. The art is inconsistent, plus the cutscenes and voice acting are laughably bad. In the first cutscene, a chair slid out from underneath a sitting girl... and then she stood up. Those things didn't happen at the same time - just picture it. After that cutscene, you have to evade some knights. It's okay though, they'll never even catch you because they can't walk up stairs. The movement and combat feel like I'm underwater using a pool noodle instead of a sword - it's bad. You can stand back a foot from enemies and they'll never be able to attack you, just keep spamming the attack button. If you do die, which can happen when there are too many enemies, you get to rewatch the last cutscene in its entirety. There is no skip button. There's a janky fast forward option but it'll still take a bit to start the level. This doe…

From the Steam page, it looked pretty good. You know, good graphics-ish, maybe compelling characters, good storyline. That's what you expect from a game. You can try it if you want, but I seriously don't suggest it. It's a complete waste of money. Trust me when I say that the developer should change the name to "The Game of Bugs." Please, I don't want you to waste your money. Go with the other game that you're debating with.

2/10 - The controls are a disaster that very often lead to death and after each death there is a 2 minute cutscene that you can't skip.

I thought this would be a fun game of pirates. Well actually, this game was absolutely horrible. First of all, I couldn't move freely, it's a 2D side scroller and that's fine, but my character would often just run in place and not even move. You're supposed to go to a tavern in the beginning, but I couldn't even get past that, because I constantly got stuck. Also, for some crazy reason, pressing the 1 or 2 number keys makes the camera jerk around...why???? The game told me to press Q to arm my pistol, this didn't work. At some point while I was mashing my keyboard trying to make my character actually move, he armed his pistol...I have no idea why. And then I was stuck shooting my pistol in the middle of the tavern while running in place and not moving anywhere. I am sure that this is some religion's concept of hell.

[h1] 4.5\10 [/h1] nice try but anyway, plays and looks poor