13 Points on Refunct - Dominique Grieshofer - 2015 [PC]

1. This is a platformer that's in the same vein as a lot of walking-sim/"relaxing"-type games. It's pretty good. I'm going to say I like this one just to prove I don't hate all these kinds of games.

2. I think the main difference between Refunct and a million of these games is this doesn't overstay it's welcome. It is like, hey, this is a game where you hop about and listen to emotional and epic sounding electronic music, you got me? Good. It doesn't make you play for two or three hours to get that point across.

3. My biggest complaint is you are plopped right in there w/o any explanation of the controls, which are non-standard--at least on a controller. Who puts jump as the right bumper? I mean, really.

4. I feel like this game asks a very important question: Like, what are we even platforming for, man?

5. *spoilers* We platform because we love it. Get on it.

6. Oh, going back to number 3, once you check the controller mapping in the game options, the jump button is labeled jump/climb or some such but you can't actually climb. I am not sure why they did that but I am seething w/ anger about it.

7. Seething.

8. The amount of time it took me to play this was approximately one beer. I had to pee in the middle and grabbed another beer while I was up but didn't open it until after the game was over. Use this information how you will.

9. You can't fail at this game. You can only fail at life. Take a moment to let that sink in.

10. It is extremely hard to not call this game extremely easy. Hard enough that I won't bother. This game is extremely easy.

11. Ok, there are a few things that will take you more than one try but nothing that is going to take you more than a minute or two to get past really. You never die and no part of the small game world takes any considerable time to get to.

12. I put the graphical settings of this all the way up to 4K ultra super mega and it ran well on my 1060 w/ just a couple stutters. I am not sure it looked any better than on the default, rather low resolution settings though. This is more about style than pixel/poly/frame pushing by a country smile.

13. The more I think about this game, the more I like it. Just dig in and hop on some platforms for no good reason. Listen to music that sounds like you are just starting to feel better after a tough divorce.