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  • 3 months later...

It's a God game, they're better with a keyboard + mouse controls in all honesty. There should be better textures on the PC version considering Live will throttle it's size to under 2GB.

 

I'll wait for a slight drop unless its also physical retail (which it wasn't meant to be anyway) but el shaddai and catherine imports will take my time. :/

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I'm just slightly surprised that the XBLA version would be cheaper than on PC so I thought it may be gimped in a significant way. I guess it seems like a fairly streamlined game so may be OK on gamepad, but I won't make my mind up until they're out anyway.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Anyone know if this is coming to steam? Several sites are reporting as such, but Steam itself is largely oblivious to it and it comes out on the 26th.

I'm currently divide between getting it on GMG for £10 now, or seeing what it's at on Steam.

 

Wikipedia says it is, but that might not be the best judge as the source is only a joystiq article. The official dev facebook says July 27th, but only explicitly mentions Xbox, so PC and PS3 might just come later.

 

EDIT: Did not realize GMGs site said June 27th on the PC. I'm guessing it might just come to Steam that day as well, no preorder.

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  • 3 weeks later...

No. I tried it last night and trying to play it with a mouse and keyboard was a horrible experience. It feels like they are just making the mouse emulate an analogue stick. After plugging in the 360 pad it worked better, but the controls weren't very precise then either.

To be honest I wasn't very impressed at all during the 90 minutes or so I spent with it. The water physics are cool and just throwing sand, lava and water at each others to see what happens is amusing for a while, but once you start trying to get into the actual game it starts being mostly about moving sand around until your villagers' pathfinding accepts the surface as traversable - which seems to be a bit random - and they make their way to the objective. You are sometimes given a special power that is pretty cool the first time but ends up being pretty boring after a few uses. Jellifying water is pretty neat, but you can't actually DO much with it.

 

Maybe it gets better later, but my opinion could be summed up as: Cool tech demo, shame about the lack of actual game.

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