GIGA WRECKER

Frankly, I loved this game, which is pretty addictive, without last too long to weary (about fifteen hours). The system of this platform game has dared originalities, which constitkill the very basis of its concept, and which alone deserve to try it. You will gradually acquire skills, and these allow you to use the décor elements (the rubble of the title) as fundamental elements to progress. Because you have to change the scenery yourself (and not just demolish it) to progress in the levels, and go back in time if you missed something. Kind of like a puzzle game. The concept could have been more advanced, but the experience remains interesting. Because apart from its originality of gameplay, you have to keep in mind that Giga wrecker is an independent game, with its flaws and its qualities. At the rank of faults, quickly: collisions with elements of scenery not always logical (we pass through some elements and not others) and frustrating, but tempered by the dimension "die and retry". Sometimes too austere screens (skill or card). And some skills that only bring an aesthetic interest to history (especially the many "Arche abilities", which could have, for example, give advantage of small tactical bonuses depending on the variants). Because at the level of aesthetics, we really go into a neat job, for a little game. The whole universe bathes in a rather original post-APO/futuristic design, really very successful and coherent. The narrative tables, albeit fixed, are really works of art, totally fittings with the rest, while supporting the personality of the characters (we will return). The music, in spite of curls sometimes a little short, are really beautiful, and always alternate at the right time the contemplative passages, lyrical, or the violence of confrontation. And the clashes with the bosses, which are the stakes of the story, are certainly quite dirigistes, with patterns to understand to triumph, but well personalized and precise. Above all, the story and the characters are really well conducted, with a very built psychology, and a gradual evolution of the main character, which gradually changes his worldview, with a small nuance of "initiatic Quète" always very nice. And generally, in the course of the dialogue bubbles, the personality of the characters, including BOSSES (who are not there just to be exterminated), is specified by small touches. Without spoiler, the story, which begins in a way of the most classical, without being a revolution, is very well conducted, and of an unexpected depth and subtlety at the outset. In the end, if I found the game system very nice though perfectible, I fell in love with every side: the designs, the music, the characters, the universe. I sincerely hope that a sequel will be given to this opus, retaining the level of requirement and improving the few flaws.