30. Conscript (PS5)🎮 First game of the year that I kind of think drifts into the kind of not good territory? Its not terrible, but I took some pretty major issues with the pacing and such. Its a solo dev working on it though, so still a better attempt than like 99% of us anyway.
This could be a PS5 issue? But the audio balancing was totally fucked. It was overwhelming low and I had to jack the volume up on my TV to hear things in a game about WW1. Exiting to the PS menu woke the dead. Puzzles were good though, but I really wish I had enabled checkpoints.
Areas are really big and save points are sparse; I lost multiple hours to deaths (to be clear, skill issue). But the amount of walking and re-walking got to me after awhile. I really was hoping it was going to be another Signalis, but kind of a high bar. A lot of other stuff I'd recommend first.