SATORI Reviews

Let's be clear: I like this game, but the store page makes promises which Satori simply doesn't deliver. Primarily, the claim of "infinitely generated open worlds" is bunk. There's one world, whose features are endlessly shuffled and re-dealt. It's a nice world—full of floating platforms to jump around on, walls to stick to, rails to slide on, and polyhedrons which you can hookshot and fling yourself merrily around the skybox collecting glowies. It's fun. It's kind of pretty. But there's nothing to complete, nothing to discover in terms of exploration, just the same core gameplay over and over until you decide you've had enough. There's no fail state, but neither is there a win state. Satori is essentially a playground, and what you get for collecting the requested 200 glowies is a fade-in to another functionally identical playground. There is value in playgrounds—and I'll be clicking "yes" once I've finished complaining, so clearly I feel there's value in [i]this[/i] playground—but don't buy Satori expecting it to be anything more than it is. It's fun enough, until you realize that the game has nothing more to show you. For me that point came at just shy of 7 hours, as compared to other flow-aspiring first person air ballet games such as Swarmlake where I'm over 400 and counting.

awful UI, poor controller support, for infinitely generated open worlds, you just get a small play area, there's a good experience that can come from this if it had polish past alpha there was potential in the movement and there is enjoyment that can be taken from it when you get used to the movement, unfortunately that doesn't outweigh the many issues and bugs with this game