Feather Reviews

[h2]Feather[/h2] Has a total of [b]5[/b] trading cards.

would be better as a screensaver or moving wallpaper. it's just a simple environment that you fly around, no goals or story and not a lot you can actually 'do'. it calls itself 'immersive' but you can't even land (correction, you can land on some very specific perches but nothing else, and i only found this out by checking discussions) and when you hit things you just get pushed back in time so you can avoid the collision, rather than it having consequences or any kind of physics. there seem to be a few things you can interact with (like fruit and pinwheels) but no reason to do so, except some structures you can fly through change your appearance or the bg music. i would rather have gotten to choose my bird at the start, and for music to simply change naturally like a radio. keyboard controls were also jank, but even after switching to controller, i did not feel like a bird and i didn't see any reason to keep playing instead of just putting on a video of someone else doing it. only positives are the free achievement just for launching the game and a brief few minutes where my cat saw the bird on the screen and got interested, but even she soon grew bored. i think i was expecting something like 'AER; Memories of Old', which i didn't know of when i bought this game. this seems to just be a very watered down version of that game. if feather at least had achievements for collecting the different birds or interacting with different things, and let you land anywhere, i could maybe get behind it. the total lack of direction and forced constant flight were big negatives in a game where the only real positive is 'it's pretty'.