Wavetale

Well. It's nice, but disappointing.

Wavetale is an easy and short game. The story is OK, but there's just not much of it. Controls can feel imprecise but the stakes are so low that it doesn't matter too much. They do one job well: the game is best when you can get into a flow of jumps and swerves. Wee! There's just no real challenge in it. Combat is also so trivial as to be superfluous.

What's really disappointing is the lack of polish. There are little bugs everywhere. Graphical settings are very basic and I'm not even sure if the game has anti-aliasing. Sometimes there is voice acting and sometimes it's just text, as if the budget ran out at some point. Maybe that's why the game is so short, too.

I had a fairly nice time with it. But it's hard to recommend unless you've really run out of better games to play. Or maybe you're just in the mood for something short and easy? Wavetale can scratch that itch.