Kraken Odyssey Reviews

wish it had a start menu in the game cant get in the title screen

A fun and fast paced 3D platformer, feeling sorta Crash Bandicootish (it flips between side on and into the screen gameplay) with a very strong focus on platforming. While there are enemies to avoid, you'll mostly be focusing on the platforming, finding the secret areas, and clearing the various missions and time attack objectives each stage has. Mission wise its usually stuff like completing the secret missions, defeating all the enemies, getting set number of coins etc) and honestly I dont mind them - the game has a very nice pacing to it where your always running forward, never just left waiting on platforms, a real treat for people wanting to speed run the game. Combat wise its just the usual "jump on enemies", its secondary to the platforming, doesnt get in the way, and thankfully doesnt slow things down.

It's a pretty fun game at its core, but I can't for the life of me recommend it due to many technical issues. - There's a severe lack of sound effects. - Jumping near an enemy can count as you jumping on them causing you to fail pacifist challenges. - Enemies killed or coins collected in secrets count towards their respective challenges, but are not accounted for in the count (once I only killed one enemy and enemy kill challenge was complete even though I had to kill 8). - Barrels count towards the destroy crates challenge, but once again are not accounted for in the totals (this challenge in level 15 is impossible to complete as there are only 18 crates + 1 barrel, but you're tasked to destroy 20). - Dying resets the jump counter, trivializing limited jump challenges. - It seems that resetting the level after completing a challenge has the challenge still marked as done but the rewarded star is not counted in totals. This has caused me to become unable to finish the game (game thinks I have 80 stars even though I have 92 (31X3-1). There's also only one save file and no way to reset progress. - Sometimes the camera glitches and I can't see where I'm jumping - Exiting the game seems to only be possible with alt + F4 (at least when playing with keyboard) - Clicking on any of the menus causes you to be on multiple menus. - If you click away from the game while paused and click back in, the game unpauses and pause options are still available (for example jumping resets the level). I reported on these issues back in January with no response from the developer.