Yet Another World Reviews

3/10

why i bought this? - im idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68SnmjzyAnQ Here is a video review. Plays well and has no bugs I have found. Great fun and would recommend it full-heartedly! More games please energy milk :)

The game is great but i wish there were achievements and trading cards :(

Taking out the trash is more fun than this game.

Yet Another World is a "template" flip. The "developer" filled out a basic template in the craptastic Construct3 construction kit (a blight on gaming), changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and put it on Steam as if it was their own game. The resulting "template flip", Yet Another World, is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. There's nothing notable about this crap platformer except that you can play it for free on the self-published area of Construct's website, making this a free browser app. More on that later, but it's important to really hammer home the point this is a browser app and not a real PC game. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. Resolution is locked and can't be changed, this is as much as a limitation of Construct 3 as it is laziness on the part of the developer. Regardless, it's not guaranteed it will fit the native resolution of your display. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the Construct 2/Construct 3 game engine/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset sometimes used by amateur developers as it doesn't require advanced game development skills, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities (it's worse than GameMaker Studio!). Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. Once more we see greedy devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $6 USD, but it's free to play on the web. Web developers must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free browser game just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Who do they think we are?

I personally didn't enjoy this game. The humor in it is childish with mostly fart jokes that just aren't funny. The platforming is not all that great and the controls don't feel right. Overall it is not a great game.

The controls are tight enough, but that's only if you have something like Antimicro active. The claims of full controller support are false, even with Steam's controller configuration options. This is a collectathon type game with a HUGE amount of unnecessary trolls. The level design is really lousy with them. I'm talking about VERY hard to see spike traps and falling blocks that blend in perfectly with the background. WAY too many unfair deaths. This game is not fun. X(

While it may look like a game that blends casual gaming with hard core, it is definitely anything but, this is due to some ridiculous thoughtless implements by the developer which make this game very quickly a chore, having to repeat the same parts of the level over and over again. The game was developed by a single Russian developer which can be found here ( http://energymilk.ru/ ) The story is something that could have been drummed up in a kindergarten. An Alien has taken your assortment of colourful cows while you were sleeping, your job is to now get them back. The art style which is basically just squares placed at different angles, clouds, trees etc. I guess by everything made up of squares shows that everything in this world has a basic outline/concept to it. Delinquently basic, this is also demonstrated by your only super power to get the cows back is to fart. Yes by farting you can retract spikes, make boulders fall early which would have normally have crushed you etc. Granted there is a single soundtrack which is relaxing, but soon this begins to play out like a soundtrack you get exposed to when you phone up a customer complaint line and get placed on hold. It soon becomes irritating as well. Everything in this game becomes irritating, like a cactus in your shoe. What is a cactus doing in your shoe? Is a strange question, just like it is when you’re forced to ask yourself 'Why am I playing this game which is causing me severe pain!! ?’ What makes this game such a shoddy form of entertainment? For one thing the learning curve goes from one extreme to the other. The first 5 levels consist of you finding 3 'o' rings these will open up the exit gate for you. After level 5 you’re given the option to simply find 3 or 10 'O' rings depending if you are a completion freak. You can also find one 'secret' per level after level 5 too. With 120 levels on offer here you would think that the game would have a gradual level of difficulty. Nope it goes from level 6 onwards into a Normandy beach massacre of having to try and retry. Evidently this game is not suitable for casual gamers which not only would make up a large percentage of the gaming industry, but also would be the ones most attracted to the art style and level design concept. You see the platform your standing on becomes 'yet another world' as soon as you enter a portal and what was once the outside world becomes the platform. It's hard to describe but it does make the game interesting at first. Why does it not keep the game interesting? Because those portals soon become a hindrance. Every time you die, the portals spawn back even if you accomplish everything within that portal and now they get in your way from reaching where you want to go. This means you have to play the same parts of the level over and over again regardless to the fact you have already completed it. Also every time you die you drop a ring. This means more often than not that the ring gets dropped at a death trap where you have to try and pick it up again. Or that the ring dropped in an unreachable area like underneath the platform which causes you the need to restart. While it may not be so bad at first, it does become seriously tedious in later levels where you’re required to journey the length of the map to get to an exit portal. Hard core gamers will soon tire of this troll of a game. Yes you heard me right, this game serves for no other purpose than to be a troll. With no mid-way save points, with completed portals constantly reappearing and with rings being dropped constantly at inappropriate places. Any short amount of fun you get will be whisked away from careless design. I honestly cannot recommend this to Casual gamers, and as for hard core gamers there are better products out there such as 1001 spikes, Airscape and Supermeatboy. These are examples of games that both cater for the Casual as well as the Hard core. A game by energy milk I seriously wanted to enjoy, but in the end the product completely tasted spoilt. Below is me playing the first 9 levels. Should be enough of an example for you to see if dying a million times because a developer can't be bothered putting in save points is a game for you... https://youtu.be/qJzdzaI6sgc

Yet another puzzle platformer that's pretty average overall so if you are looking for more of the same this will abate your cravings but if said genre isn't in your bailiwick then you should pass this one over for a true exemplar of the genre such as Braid, Limbo, Thomas was Alone and if you don't mind action in your puzzle plat... the indelible Spelunky.