This game at its core displays beauty, creativity, and a compelling gaming experience.
However, it was released much too early with too many bugs at too high a price.
The bugs: Ive played up to 20% and about 20 days into the game three times now. Each time, it reaches a point where the screen goes white, and then only the background landscape and controls are available.
It becomes a side-scrolling landscape adventure of nothingness. The song plays on, the sun and moon continue their dance, but the foreground-including even the boy-turned-deer character my attention wants to inhabit has disappeared.
Is it a game about nihilism? The higher levels above 20% dont even exist? To remind people that their dreams are just as fleeting as their hours spent trying to become a deer God?
Whatever the case, another bug is the momentum of the NPC animals, like the baby deer, makes it a pretty sad game when you watch your doe lovers and their babies die a red death on the spikes--simply because they couldnt slow down quickly enough.
When youre trying to do running and timed jumps or attacks, the sudden complete stops to have a snack of berries often results in more death on the spikes.
I do love the game. I just wanted to believe there was a 100% in there somewhere.
Onward, and thanks in advance for the coming update!
Radicalundoing.com about The Deer God