Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire Review (Tandonium)
A game inspired by Skys of Arcadia while not walking the same path that Nostalgia on the DS did. There is some fun to be had but in the first 20ish min of gameplay...
-Walking sound effects stay after some dialog. Metal sounding grass and grass sounding metal floors are annoying to hear. Resets once in another dialog on a different ground type but it will be stuck with the new sound till the next dialog.
-Selection moves on its own when pulling up the Save Screen, the back button saves the game as well as the confirm button, and other menus can be accessed while on the Save screen. I exited to Main Menu while trying to Save....very frustrating.
-Auto playing text needs to either slow down or wait for a button press like other conversations
-There is a control scheme selector but it does not stay on the controller I select which feels counter productive as using a controller other than Xbox causes no button prompts of any kind to appear not even the Xbox ones. Using Steam Input at least allows me to see Xbox button prompts.
-Tutorials are easy to accidentally skip with buttons other than the cancel button displayed on screen. Any seen tutorials once seen should be accessible at all times.
-Needs a way to speed up/ skip animations in combat as the same actions are done very often
-Selection moves on its own in battle every my turn starts or I switch back to a character I want to change the action of
-Cut scenes that happened before I saved replay every time I reload/ Only some cut scenes are skipable
After about two hours of play the bugs and lack of polish get worse. While I hope it will be fixed, I can not recommend anyone spend money on the game in this state.