Vane Reviews

This game started off with a very bad start for me. Early in the game there is this location deep within a cave where you have to climb upwards a very long way using very bad controls. There are also gaps in the floor which are hard to see because it is too dark. Also, the camera often gets stuck within the terrain making it impossible to see anything. What's even worse is that whenever you fall downwards, and that can be halfway through or even near the end, you are punished by having to restart from zero. This made it nerve-wracking for me. After many failed attempts I chose to quit. I said to myself that this must be the worst game ever. Later that day I decided to give it one more attempt. I’m very glad that I did so because after getting through that first location in the cave all the bad things I mentioned did not happen again in the rest of the game. The game brought me through a wonderful journey that lasted 6 hours for me and which I finished in a day. There were great visuals and great diverse gameplay. I’m not going to say too much because I don’t want to spoil anything but Vane is right up there at the top with games like Journey and Rime. This game is just as good. There were several moments in the game where I asked myself: what must I do now to proceed? I got stuck plenty of times but not for very long. With patience I always found what it was I had to do and I did not use a walkthrough to finish the game. The game however did get buggy near the end. There is this moment where you have to push a giant ball forward. The ball several times got stuck in the terrain and I had to restart from the last checkpoint to be able to proceed. And one time there was this weird bug where I got stuck underneath the ball. Without spoiling too much, I highly recommend this game. Try not to get disencouraged early in the game but give Vane a fair chance and you’ll won’t regret it.