Windfolk: Sky is just the Beginning

The dialogue is extremely bad and is unskippable, the actual content of the game is locked behind completing the story. In level they do not give you objectives or things to do while waiting out dialogue, the dialogue is literally just people having childish arguments, the kind that are unproductive and just amount to posturing, they go on for way too long and you have nothing to do but fly around and keep yourself busy (with nothing but a few journal entries to search for) on the same map you've already explored multiple times. You will have to earn your fun in this game, but not through mechanics, through socially draining pointless dialogue and having to have a strategy to distract yourself while you wait it out. If you don't mind that, it is fun, if not hollow feeling, to fly around. The few times the game DOES give you things to do while flying they are fun enough and well put together, just the game seems to focus on anything but giving us reasons to enjoy flying around.

It's an indie take on Dark Void! I can't believe someone actually did it! It's imperfect for sure. Short, animations can look pretty jank at times, only 3 weapons and 3 abilities, and some of the tutorial walls of text are less than stellar at explaining themselves, BUT it's an indie riff on one of my PS360 favs and I LOVE that. The Jetpack is well implemented, the hover/fly switch is nearly perfect (add toggle option!) Combat mostly manages to balance difficulty/fluidity well. Aiming is de-emphasized in favor of a generous auto-aim and asking the player to dodge and manage timers. I'm sitting at 50% complete right now after about 90 minutes, which makes me sad. Gotta spread this out and savor it over the next few days. I want to contact everyone on this dev team and personally say thank you.

Windfolk is quite inconsistent in some aspects, BUT saying it's a boring/straight up bad game would be liying. You should buy the game if you are willing to "ignore" the following things to focus on the positive ones (that I'll list after the bad ones): [h1] The ugly/bad [/h1] -Controls are half baked/ not well implemented at all since there are times where playing using a controller required me to use the mouse to switch between guns more easily (for exemple). -Visuals are nice don't get me wrong, but the game feels quite empty in a lot of situations, especially in the second enviroment you get into. -History it's OKAY, not bad/good. OKAY, 2h of a straight and mostly clear story with a few interesting aproaches. The problem is how dysected and poorly it gets thrown at you and how inconsistent the storytelling feels (jumping in the menu between chapters without proper transitions, dialogs in the menu, inconsistent visual aproach in cinematics, etc.) -Combat system, AGAIN, it's okay. A few core elements, and some extra ones that you might end up not even using :/. Incosistent bossfights where literaly at the end of the game the boss would do quite awful movements that won't let you…

it was all find until last level, that the game put you into a fight, that you dont see the border of the arena you are fighting in, and just have to guess hitbox of the ship you are fighting while dodging a bunch of aoe attack, and having no heal, no second life or anything. would of maybe recommmended if it wasn't for the last level ruining it.

pretty fun game cant wait to finish the story

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