PsychoCarbo Close to the Sun Review

You can JUMP! And it’s absolutely good for NOTHING! 06/10 Final rating at the end! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☑ Byutchifu ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Do not look for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Does your PC run Paint? ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich Ox ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ One word: pewpewpew! Three words: pew pew pew! ☐ Something talky ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien joined forces to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ “I know kugfu!” ☐ Excellent! ☐ Good ☑ Mehh ☐ Instead, watch paint dry ☐ Yeah no ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer, it’s funnier ---{ Grind }--- ☐ You’ll need a second life to grind ☐ Grindmaniac ☐ Medium grind ☐ Only if you care about achievements ☑ No need ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press ‘W’ ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard without a brain ☐ What’s your IQ? ☐ Dark Souls ☐ Hawking joined Neil deGrasse Tyson to build a time machine so they could meet Einstein and Tesla to create this game. ---{ Playtime }--- ☐ Just enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start it, your grandson finishes it ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replay }--- ☑ Once is enough ☑ Only if you want achievements ☐ After some months… Years… Mods… ☐ Worth it with DLCs ☐ You better have time to waste ☐ Well… You didn’t need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of them ☐ Small errors ☐ Can be annoying ☐ You will swear… ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a huge bug nursery ---{ Multiplayer }--- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ Lan ☐ Says it has it, but it will blow up your PC if you try ☐ Here it is… A lonely forgotten desert ☐ Meh, kind of fun ☐ Solo mission? What? ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Audio-gasmic ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I’m deaf now ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ☐ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ No longer on Steam ☐ It’s free! ☐ The price is fair ☑ If it’s on sale ☐ If you have some money to spare ☐ I don’t recommend ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ 07 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Well, anyone who knows me knows I LOVE horror games — except I get so nervous that I can only play five minutes alone. And honestly, it doesn’t take much to scare me. I mean, I always get jumpscared in Minecraft when a creeper shows up, for example. So yes, I love the genre, but since my wife refuses to sit next to me when I play, I can barely finish the games I own. And that’s why I'm beautifully proud of myself for finishing the second game of this style, after The Beast Inside, Close to The Sun. Careful though — not that this one is trying to be as scary as the previous one; it’s more of a mysterious polar-ish story than an actual horror game. To be completely honest, CTTS is more movie than game. Sure, there are a few puzzles and some hard parts, but it’s more guided and cinematic than anything else. Which explains why the gameplay is super basic. In fact, it has fewer interactions, mechanics and possibilities than a Telltale game, but it’s ultra-short and straight to the point. It’s a little story. In that sense, to pass the time and discover it, it’s not a negative thing. But you can’t expect much. Also, the Steampunk style and Tesla’s presence add a nice charm to the whole thing. To sum it up: with not-too-high expectations, it’s worth it — if it’s on sale.