▲ Recommended
3 hrs
I am a fan of Cotton Game and Shattered Dimension attracted me in with it's unusual premise and a very distinct visual style. I played the demo and was eagerly awaiting the full game release wanting more of the same.
Now, after completing all 5 episodes / stories in the game, I can say that it was definitely worth the price, but I was surprised by some unusual inconsistencies:
- The visual style varies per episode! All of the screenshots in the store except the last two are from episode 1 (featured in the demo). Sad to say I don't like the look of the other episodes as much. The definite low is episode three that quite noticeably uses almost entirely AI-generated artwork. I am not 100% conceptually against using AI but the heartless look did significantly spoil my enjoyment of this episode. There is visible use of AI in the astronaut episode too (ep 4 I think). Interestingly enough, these two episodes don't feature in the screenshots.
- The episodes also vary quite a bit gameplay-wise. It actually feels like each episode was made by someone else, using the same engine. Episode 3 also has the worst gameplay, where you constantly have many items and it's very obvious where to use them, so you are just waiting say for a can to appear so that you can use the can-opener. Also some episodes have lots of text while others are quite brief.
- There are minor translation errors on a couple of items, but only in one episode (5 I think). For example a key will have the text "coin" describing it. Not a real issue as you can see what it is, just feels a bit shabby.
- Each episode has an ending, but once you beat all of them, nothing happens. Also you can 'continue' playing completed episodes, which allows you to see the ending again, except in episode 1, where continuing puts you at the end of it, but you can't trigger the ending animation.
- In episode 5 (taxi driver) an extremely important clue is in the initial text the character speaks. If you miss it, it will never come up again and you have to restart the episode to see it. This is quite odd as usually the text in the game is just for flavour, or for providing subtle hints.
All in all, knowing all this, I would still buy the game and I can recommend it. It's just odd to see all of these rough edges and the episode with AI art was a let down. Oddly enough, a few of the episodes' narratives revolve around AI as well.
Now, after completing all 5 episodes / stories in the game, I can say that it was definitely worth the price, but I was surprised by some unusual inconsistencies:
- The visual style varies per episode! All of the screenshots in the store except the last two are from episode 1 (featured in the demo). Sad to say I don't like the look of the other episodes as much. The definite low is episode three that quite noticeably uses almost entirely AI-generated artwork. I am not 100% conceptually against using AI but the heartless look did significantly spoil my enjoyment of this episode. There is visible use of AI in the astronaut episode too (ep 4 I think). Interestingly enough, these two episodes don't feature in the screenshots.
- The episodes also vary quite a bit gameplay-wise. It actually feels like each episode was made by someone else, using the same engine. Episode 3 also has the worst gameplay, where you constantly have many items and it's very obvious where to use them, so you are just waiting say for a can to appear so that you can use the can-opener. Also some episodes have lots of text while others are quite brief.
- There are minor translation errors on a couple of items, but only in one episode (5 I think). For example a key will have the text "coin" describing it. Not a real issue as you can see what it is, just feels a bit shabby.
- Each episode has an ending, but once you beat all of them, nothing happens. Also you can 'continue' playing completed episodes, which allows you to see the ending again, except in episode 1, where continuing puts you at the end of it, but you can't trigger the ending animation.
- In episode 5 (taxi driver) an extremely important clue is in the initial text the character speaks. If you miss it, it will never come up again and you have to restart the episode to see it. This is quite odd as usually the text in the game is just for flavour, or for providing subtle hints.
All in all, knowing all this, I would still buy the game and I can recommend it. It's just odd to see all of these rough edges and the episode with AI art was a let down. Oddly enough, a few of the episodes' narratives revolve around AI as well.
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