JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time Reviews

I learned my lesson not to buy games on day one with this one. It released on Friday with major visual glitches, making the game unplayable. As I understood, the dev team clocked out for the weekend, leaving early adopters with a broken game. I dropped this game with the idea of getting back to it later when it was playable, but needless to say, that didn’t happen. I guess there’s a lesson for the devs here: don’t leave games on their own during the launch period.

A strange but very interesting game. Its presentation and visuals are fantastic. The gameplay much less so; its not so much bad as it doesn't make it very obvious what your trying to do frequently. Gameplay is more like a strange skateboarding game. Its still fun to zip around the big environments but wandering around trying to figure out what your trying to do can get annoying. Its also an unfortunate choice to do all dialog in subtitles instead of voiced so it can be quiet difficult to follow tons of conversations without running into things. All that being said it was one of the more interesting games I've played in awhile.

Not the best game of this studio, the controls of the ship are clunky and unresponsive at best, and even if the gameplay make sense, it took me ages to understand what I had to do. I definitely liked swords and sworcery way more. That said, I did enjoy the second part of the game (A given time) much more than the first (The Far shore), it gives the impression that they wanted to make the second part first, but they knew they had to tell the player the story if they wanted to immerse them in the story. All in all, I think it´s an interesting game to play, you won´t find an experience like this anywhere else.

Very good game! It's really fun jetting around and exploring. Interesting puzzles, exciting narrative and a moving sountrack.

I really wanted to like it, but playing is just too frustrating. The mood and pacing of cutscenes, dialogue, and first person segments seem to want to be a slow, contemplative journey with layers of meaning. Gameplay seems to want to be fast, snappy, full of stunts. Dialogue is text, not spoken, so when I'm flying my jett I have to look away to read, potentially taking damage from collisions or hazards. When I'm exploring and in the middle of a task, I keep getting interrupted and control taken away and settings changed to focus on something other than what I was doing. I keep finding that I understand and play faster than I'm expected to, and the game keeps pausing to tell me things I've already learned or seen. It's a shame because the themes and art direction and story seem so interesting, and yet it seems I'm only allowed to experience them in an extremely specific way that doesn't mesh with how I'm actually playing. It's an exploration game that either won't let me explore, or when I've already done all the exploring, won't let me move on until the hidden timer runs out. Got so frustrated I gave up before finishing.