oOo: Ascension Reviews

This is a really fun game. I love the level designs and the controls are so smooth. It ran perfect for me on Steam Deck so it was the perfect game to play portably.

A very fun yet very difficult little time trial obstacle course game, controls are very responsive (so long as your responsiveness setting is at 10, 1 "smooths" out jerkiness), though they are not rebindable (not that the control scheme is bad, it's actually good), and there is no long respawn delay or need to manually respawn after dying (which you'll be doing a lot in this game), which makes it very much based on your skill and patience with a joystick. Each sector has its own central gimmick and visual scheme. Graphics are simple and clear, though the music loops, while good, are a bit on the short side. As far as challenge goes, some levels are short, especially around the start, only requiring a few seconds to complete, while others, especially as you progress further, are full blown obstacle courses which make achieving the seemingly high par time difficult. Some levels have (possibly unintended) shortcuts which can shove off many seconds while going for par or leaderboards. Unfortunately I cannot speak for the local multiplayer mode, as I do not own 2 controllers. Overall I'd recommend this game to people who enjoy challenges and time trials, as long as you have a working controller.

Pretty good speedrunner. A few pet peeves: I can't put the game in windowed mode, and it doesn't remember my settings for music and vibration (if it even has a vibration setting). For the sale price, I'm not really complaining.

I don't usually write reviews unless something REALLY grabs me. I've only played this for about 10 minutes, in which time I've only gotten to the second round of levels, but I've gotta say I love it already. The concept is fantastic, the visuals are perfect and the controls are tight and smooth - a must in a game of 'making it by nanometres' such as this. And a nice touch is that there's always automatically a ghost with you of your last attempt to play against as well as playing against the levels themselves. Looking very forward to seeing what's to come in future levels, what I've seen so far has been a blast! Thanks, Extra Mile!