Welcome to our review of Away, probably the least polished game I played in years…
Perp Games is with Breaking Walls on their amazing game, Away: The Survival Series, we are proud to be part of The United Nations and Play4thePlanet Green Game Jam initiative. We are creating an emotional Augmented Reality Scene that plays out on the game’s box. Play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family.
When you read the entire PR behind this game, you are expecting the adventure once in a lifetime or even better. You are a sugar glider, a Marsupial, that will become its own documentary. Any gameplay you would record, will later playback as a true documentary and will be that amazing as it sounds.
And then you start playing it….
This game is pure and utter garbage, straight from the start. I have had the strangest of bugs happen, from disappearing into the grounds and not being able to resurface, forcing me to restart the game. I have run out of food with mushrooms right in front of me that turned out objects I could not eat. I had my camera borks the big one on me.
So imagine this, I am playing this game and it just refused to follow the marsupial hero, it followed the mother. She moved out of sight and well, I got stuck. I ended up floating in the air, walking up to something that I think was a tree. Mind you that I say walk up, but seriously, I was not even walking, haha. Whenever the game wanted, my Sugar glider decided to just stop doing the walking animation and was just like a frozen object that still moved.
I seriously wonder if I should just bore you with many of the other bugs I encountered, which is really a shame because the game does sound great. It looks fantastic even, but dammit what a piece of junk it can be when the game decides to annoy you. Totally random too, because one time I was fighting a scorpion. I managed to beat him, despite the animation for the action not working once again.
In conclusion, Away is the perfect example of how a promising game can suck really hard. If the bugs would be straightened out, I am sure we would have been looking at a positive score, but aside from great narration and pretty graphics, quite frankly this game stinks.
