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gShift Review (Windows PC)

Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido), 9 days ago
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gShift is an interesting but not extremely exciting game. It’s a puzzle platformer where the main gameplay mechanic is based on switching the direction of gravity, much like a couple other gshift has you spinning on your head oftengames out there, in order to navigate a platform-based level. Aside from the gravity shifting there is also walking and jumping involved because, of course, it’s a platformer.

Basically you have two sets of controls one for gravity shift and one for linear movement. All of the levels are timed and as time counts down so does your score for the level. That means there’s an element of pressure as you want to score as high as possible which means clearing levels as fast as you can. This can often lead to a single button press that sees you starting the entire level over.

Peronally gShift wasn’t extremely interesting as many of the levels were repetitive. Additionally, you must collect bits of energy in order to pass the level, so it can happen that you will get to the exit and not be able to finish as you haven’t collected the three bits and will have to return and find the rest.

Gshift gameplay 1

The graphics in the game are sort of dream-state like where they have that sort of soft glow to things. On top of that, they’re not extremely interesting as it’s mostly oddly floating tiles of grass, rock and dirt, etc floating in mid-air that you need to navigate on your way to collecting everything and getting to the exit. There are some interesting background images but not so much so that you really want to stare at them for ages.

 Our Rating for gShift Review (Windows PC)
6.0
Replay
I�m not interested enough to finish it once, not sure I would want to ever play it again.
6.5
Graphics
Decent but nothing extraordinary or exciting. It�s a strange sort of graphics style that just ends up being a little bland overall.
6.5
Sound
Very similar to the graphics, the sounds in the game aren�t awesome or really all that inspiring. Some of the music seems like it was purchased from one of those royalty free, generic music libraries instead of actually tying into the game.
6.0
Gameplay
It�s plodding pace makes it uninteresting to play much of the time. The levels are often similar with little variation aside from graphics between worlds.
0.0
Multiplayer/Online Content
6.5
Overall
gShift just doesn�t have that pop for me that makes it exciting and makes me want to continue to play. I was hard pressed to play enough to even get the review done as I found it slow and uninteresting. It�s entirely possible that others might find some interest in this puzzle platformer but that will probably be few of you.

Rating: 0.0, votes: 0
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