Impossible Soaring Reviews

TL;DR The game needs a boost button instead of automatically boosting. It is quite a boring game mechanically as is. I really, really wanted to like this game, when I saw it had energy management and free flight in it I was instantly sold. I've been looking for exactly that type of game for the last ten years. Sadly, after .3 hours of playing it I have to say, this is not it. The energy management in this is not energy management at all, its just "you get boosted when you fly close to stuff". There is no way to choose when to speed up, so you are robbed of that beautiful "management" aspect of energy management that makes so many other flight games worth playing. You are also not really incentivised to go up or down on most levels, so essentially the core gameplay loop of this game is, "fly down at the beginning and then level out and fly left or right to try to stay close to something." Which is a horrible gameplay loop for a flying game. The music is awful, I muted the music of the first level after about a minute because it was so harsh and annoying. The animations are awful. The textures are bad, but forgivable. The camera is AWFUL. I don't find many games that make me nauseous, but this one did. And I blame the camera placement and movement. Despite what other people are saying, I don't think the controls are that confusing, even if they are a bit stiff. I had it down within about 20 seconds of playing on a controller. And that was actually a big problem for me, unlike games like volo airsport or fugl or superflight or lonely mountains, I didn't feel like I had anything more to learn or master by continuing to play the game. Conclusion: There's a severe lack of gameplay mechanics that would allow overlooking the many flaws of the game. You could fix this instantly by adding in a button to boost instead of automatically boosting next to terrain. Other minor suggestions are adding in reasons to touch down occasionally, maybe into a run, and the ability to run while charging up a ground jump to add to the variety and fluidity of the movement.