Sofi Origins Reviews

4/10 tl:dr Contains some minor spoilers but no puzzle solutions as such that u cant easily see or guess once u get to that part urself. > The very last image contains a major spoiler near the ending of the game. < This is my review and opinion after my painful xperience with this game. :/ I really wanted to support it and i dont like giving a negative review so early after release, but Im also one who gives honest reviews and see through the lines, and what the real meaning and intentions of a game is. I waited over a week to publish my review becuse I felt bad for doing it. There is SO many things wrong with this game and I cant in gd conscience rate it up, I hated every moment of it, tho not the surface story, and I just wanted to finish it. Also not really horror as such, i wasnt scared at all, at any point, only anoyed. Ill tell u why: - The nb 1 main issue I had with this game that was so incredibly anoying and frustrating , is the sloth pace at which u move. When she walks, its more like a snail pace, its SO awfully slow u constantly hold down the shift key, which literally gave my finger an ache for days after. And when she 'runs' its more like she walks. There is a LOT of walking and slow pacing in this game, and combined with the horrible lack of being able to see where u jump and land because the character doesnt have a shadow underneath her, u will fall down and miss a lot, and have to reset the checkpoint in some places a bunch of times. In the second half of the game u switch POV around a few times and when u are in first person, u cant run at all, so u are sitting there moving so freakingly slow i actually sat with my chin in my hand just waiting for her to get to one light or object to another. Im not normally one that minds slow paced games or walking simulaters, but this was too much and felt intentional. This can for a starter be fixed by adding a hold to sprint option on the shift key, because honestly her run speed should be the default walking speed, and we shouldnt be forced to press our little finger down for hours like u do in this game. - There are just a few key options in this game, which is fine. The problem occurs when the 4 key options dont match what it tells u to do on the screen to trigger them, and this needs to be executed in a fast motion. Here are the key options and u will see what i mean. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176043349103/ So we have left mouse click which corresponds to the nb 1. Right mouse click which corresponds to the nb 2. Then we have shift which is the nb 3, and jump is the nb 4. Great, np. Now comes the hard part about half way in and on, where u need to use some fast moving sequence moves to unlock/trigger certain things to not die, this can go like this: 1 3 3 2 4 1. Good luck remembering which one equals which button in a panick with a monster breathing down ur neck on a timer. At least by the time uve done this 400 times because of all the resets u will have learned them by then..' How hard was it to have the screen show the icon for left mouse click, or the jump button, etc? That would have made it 100 times easier! It would have been okay tho had it not been for those fast paces sequences which leaves u pulling ur hair out trying to remember them so fast while being chased. It was honestly frustrating and annoying and doesnt work out well. - My nb 2 biggest issue with the game is the lack of graphic options/no graphic options, because the graphic options work horribly in this game because of how badly the visuals look in terms of judging distance etc. What I mean here is that the style is that of some console games, where its really hard to see ur actual position and distance to objects. The worst here is that the character has no shadow underneath her!!!!!!!! Nor do the moving objects, like this green one shown in this picture here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176043663529/ Which makes it very hard to judge where its actually heading towards u, to the point of not giving a damn and just hoping for the best.. The amount of times Ive died in that part in the image, and on any other jumping parts were many! Like in this image here where u cant see where the F u are and land and jump towards because she HAS NO SHADOW! https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176042756893/ Also especially in the start with the cursed planks show here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176042757384/ And whats worse is that on most occasions with this area and others where u have to get close to a certain point to trigger an action to move the planks towards u, or like shown in this picture here where u gather up the red light https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176042757217/ which just doesnt take half the time no matter where u stood, how u faced or how much u cursed ur dying plant next to u because it dried out while u crawled ur way to the ending of this game. Getting past those planks were frustrating, annoying and i nearly gave up. and its near the start of the game :s - Then we have this part... https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176042756576/ I dont know where to start here honestly.. Its like the dev deliberatly intended to make u suffer as long as posible in every way. First the issue with the moving speed, omg move faster girl! Here u have to solve a puzzle which i will try not to spoil. You 'run' around with ur aching finger to collect 3 objects , as well as 3 orbs, which after u find out where and what to do with them (omg what?!?), u then move into position one by one, PAINFULLY slow dragging them in even slower movement speed towards the goal. By which time when u start with the moving orbs to get those into position, u will know what i mean here once uve done it, will most likely fail at a bunch of times and have to start over from the start. With even more slow moving!!! On this part its also incredibly hard to judge the distance of ur character to those moving orbs, and u trigger them by moving close enough to them, then letting them chase u, in WALK speed because if u dare to punish ur little finger ehre, u will move 'too fast' and they will stop. Then u go bk close enough to make it follow u again. At this i prob died there 15 times in total because i kept getting too close to them, and by this u die and have to start over! Its especilly around the corner where the camera doesnt follow u that u cant see how close u really are untill its too late. I prob died more times than I otherwise would have, if i had liked it and wasnt busy cursing every step she took. Oh, and there is 2 red light collect things conveniently placed right in the middle of ur path where u need to drag those orbs to, and if u get close enough to said trigger point it will trigger, and u cant get out of it untill u have done it right, which looks like this: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176043664512/ By which time, b4 uve done this part so many times u know NOT to do it with an orb following u, u will most surely die when it catched up to u, while ur otherwise engaded. Have fun doing all of that again. In the utmost sloth'ish speed ever. This whole part had me cursing and pulling my hair out even more and it was just the worst execution of a 'puzzle' EVER in any game ive ever played. Ever! - And then there is this important detail. Any particular reason why this child, who is alr dressed in a tiny tight red dress, sits with her legs open in a scene like this which doesnt really reflect the surface story ? https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049774886/screenshot/2262559176043663745/ If u know, u know. For a Better Day. I have more, but my word limit is up! The price is fair enough. -Arch Linux Manjaro XFCE

Начну с того, что игра достаточно кривовата. Её явно делала очень маленькая команда разработчиков с очень скромным бюджетом. Часто встречаются баги, камера очень странно себя ведёт, управление крайне неотзывчиво. В одной сцене я погиб во время эффекта замедления времени и после загрузки с контрольной точки героиня продолжила двигаться очень медленно. Хорошо, что через пару минут это прошло. Также игра крайне короткая. Я не самый быстрый в мире геймер, но на прохождение у меня ушло меньше 100 минут. В прочем, чего стоило ожидать за 42 рубля в стиме. Что касается геймплея, здесь всё несколько интереснее. Игра сочетает в себе несколько жанров: платформер, головоломка и бродилка от первого лица. Лучше всего, на мой взгляд, реализованы головоломки. Не то чтобы они очень интересные, просто на фоне остальных элементов смотрятся неплохо. В целом, паззлы очевидные, понятно, что делать. Иногда их портит выше упомянутая кривость, из-за которой триггер может не сработать и начнутся проблемы. Платформер сделан достаточно странно. Героиня плохо чувствуется, глубина также плохо ощущается, да и вызова в них никакого нет. Как будто просто решили потянуть время. Бродилка же является худшей частью данной игры. Персонаж ходит очень медленно, действия, которые нужно предпринять для продвижения дальше неочевидны. Ну и по классике главная героиня ничего не может сделать бабайке, от неё нужно просто отворачиваться, как от слэндермена. Это, кстати, тоже работает криво через раз. Ещё у главной героини есть какие-то непонятные мистические силы, но они в геймплее представлены только QTE. Ещё в игре есть какой-то сюжет, но он подаётся через записки, поэтому я его не понял.

Don't let the looks of this game fool ya. It's not a cutesy side scroller haha. It is a violent horror game. Off the bat the controls did me in a bit. Once that was situated it took me a while to understand how to exit the second room. The usual puzzle game experience. I like that it features some voice over work. I'd like for the main character to be voiced as well. I didn't like startin' from that one room tho when I died due to platformin'. Not a bad title for the price. Gameplay Impressions: https://youtu.be/gG1DtWjQQhU