FRIST_008 Spirit of the North Review

I'm a fan of walking simulators, you could say. I've played through a lot of them, both first-person and third-person. My first one was Journey. And pretty much everyone tried to copy it, and they copied the main thing. In a walking simulator, moving around should feel pleasant. And only then come the beautiful views. But usually there's both. This fox simulator is a technical mess. All the activities in the game are copy-paste from Journey, I can literally see how they took everything from there and added almost nothing of their own. The controls are terrible. Yana handed the gamepad back to me after 15 minutes and said it was impossible. I was horrified that I couldn't properly control the direction and the speed of the forward jump. You can tell the game was made for keyboard and mouse, because the fox has only 2 speed states: full throttle or standing still. I can't adjust her speed with the stick, which is why the jump is always at maximum distance forward. Because of this, the platforming in the game is just awful. And all in all, instead of relaxing me, it only irritated me. I'm giving the game 4/10 after exactly one hour of play, for the record, and deleting it. It's a bad representative of its genre. Afterwards I even launched Journey to relax and to make sure it's not me who has outgrown walking simulators, it really is the controls here that are the problem.