Wow this game was a massive letdown, a true dumpster fire. Its impressive a small team made this, and its decent length and the visuals aren't bad. Those are the ONLY positive things with this game. Where to start.

The game started by not being able to read my controller, something that no other game does so its definitely not on my end. This forced me to play this game with kbm which made everything worse. The story is meh, just bounces back and forth between times, which has done before. Although its a cool idea to switch between older and younger versions of herself to see how the world has changed the execution is flawed. You will need to do something, then run back to the pod, then run back, then do something, then teleport back, then run back, etc. Its monotonous and more of a chore after the first time. Its also stupid how for some reason 1 of them has no ability to jump, and the other has no ability to attack, theyre just pointless constraints to frustrate. Trying to shoot with the picked up flowers with the little girl is awful as you run try and turn and shoot while trying not to get hit.

The game is awful at giving you an idea what to do, expect to spend 75% of the time lost as how to move forward, thankfully theres video walkthroughts required. You somehow were supposed to know to get this power to teleport back to this island then you need to be this form to do this and then revert forms to go in this room and hit this level then return in another form......Sh!t like that. Theres a pointless tacked on crafting system you'll barely use except the two times youre required to for some reason. Every crafting thing requires 14 different mats for some reason, which is made more fun by the fact there's 20 different types of mats in the game. You'll find some blueprints for items but since you don't want to waste an extra 2 hrs finding all the random little sh!t around the game you'll never craft them because that could take away mats from the ones you're required to craft. The way you get upgrades is collecting random little flowers and other objects that give you "+1 vigor" which you'll have no idea what it does and won't be able to notice any difference even after collecting a few.

The combat may be some of the worst I've ever seen in a game. You have a single attack you try and spam and then the enemy attacks you without warning randomly, meaning you need to basically attack once or twice then ♥♥♥♥ around holding block. Good luck if theres more than one enemy as you'll just be spammed and juggled. The dodge is this slow awkward roll. Ranged is somehow worse as you cant move and aim for some odd reason, meaning when you try to shoot you have to stand there leading to you being shot while trying to shoot. This is made worse by enemies with rotating small hitboxes around their bodies, just to be as frustrating as possible. The puzzles become repetitive after 20% of the game just doing the same statues and flower watering, meaning they become a chore and lack any fun for most of the game. You also can't rebind controls for no reason. Platforming is also janky and pretty finnicky. Swimming is awful and is inverted and you can't change it.

Thats about it for the game. Poor directions, awful combat, repetitive boring puzzles, poorly designed platforming, and tacked on systems like crafting that provide no benefit. Everything this game tries to do it fails. I truly don't know who this game is for.

5/10.