TRON: Catalyst (PC) Review
When I first tried TRON: Catalyst, I was pretty happy with what I had experienced. Although my initial preview was only a vertical slice within the city of Vertical Slice, the game introduced enough good ideas that I was eager to get my hands on a much more extensive play session.
My time with TRON: Catalyst has been somewhat of a mixed experience. On the one hand, I really admire what both Bithell and the game itself are trying to do here. However, the game really needed to iron out some kinks to create a really amazing game, and it doesn’t really look like they have.
I talked about it a bit during my preview, but I’ll reiterate it here. Players take on the role of Exo—a simple Courier program who is caught in a massive explosion during a routine delivery. Little did she know, the explosion was caused by a Glitch Catalyst, which distorts her code and gives her the ability to rewind time back to key loop points, allowing her to use abilities and knowledge gained to outsmart... Read more