Venineth

[h1]ball[/h1]

There is something so pure about this experience. Bizarre, obscure, atmospheric, gorgeous, challenging, and sometimes outright infuriating, but oh-so-rewarding when it clicks. It's like rolling an intergalactic marble around alien planets that give me [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/773370/Exo_One/]Exo One[/url] and [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/261530/Lifeless_Planet_Premier_Edition/]Lifeless Planet[/url] vibes. Clever platformer puzzle-solving and interesting superpowers for your marble. The visual design in the levels (and even in the menus) isn't always intuitive and requires some mental decoding, giving it a truly alien feel throughout. The control of your ball isn't either, as the controls are more about the speed and direction of spin on your marble, rather than the very direct motion control baked into many players' heads by years (and decades) of other games. The learning curve is worth it though, and leads to some very clever parkour tricks learned along the way. I'm frustrated this game hasn't gotten more love (judging by the low number of reviews in the many years since its release, and the lower global percentages on general progression ach…

☞︎🕆︎👍︎😐︎ ✋︎❄︎ 🕈︎☜︎ 👌︎✌︎☹︎☹︎

Entrancingly beautiful and surreal. A completely zen experience, even when it's frustrating.

Played the game for 26 minutes before giving up. Game play requires you to steer a somewhat unwieldy (using keyboard) sphere thru the environment. Few clues are given as to which direction is the best to proceed in, other than a light that briefly appears. Environment is filled with traps and gaps that force one to repeatedly reset and retry as one would a platform-game. The environment appears expansive but a limited path is possible, preventing any sort of exploration. Ultimately the game expects the player to be the trained monkey that performs as the designer intended. Not satisfying at all.

First impressions were hopeful, fancy UE4 visuals, but ball very unresponsive and hard to control. Feel liks I can affect inertia only while touching floor, but ball always bounces into air so you barely control it at all. Annyoing how slow it takes speed, loses speed, and how hard it bounces of surfaces Just add more air control to ball and game will be more pleasant, I'd love to come back (but no hope)