An atmospheric dystopian platformer, One Final Breath takes place on a darkly futuristic Earth getting ready to dying. The planet is so horrifically polluted that solely the strewn detritus of the lengthy extinct humanity make it recognisable. You play as Gaia in a 2.5D journey by way of the haunted wreckage of the world in an try to search out hope.
The gameplay is pretty easy. You journey throughout the map navigating obstacles in your approach by pulling levers, pushing blocks and infrequently utilizing your particular means to summon vines. For probably the most half, the puzzles aren’t significantly tough to unravel, as the sport focuses extra on the world.
One Final Breath’s robust swimsuit is the environment. The environments take the type of a considerably acquainted post-apocalyptic planet bathed in a generally irritating quantity of darkness, however are properly typically constructed. The occasional scene that shines a light-weight on the harrowing state of the world and the horrible monsters inhabiting now are brilliantly creepy.
That is complemented by an superior soundtrack and really satisfyingly chilling sound results. That is additional compounded by the way in which the Pleasure-con throb in your hand together with the character’s heartbeat in moments of rigidity. A few of these little particulars which were applied are actually improbable.
The problems you’re extra prone to face are as a result of barely clunky mechanics. The controls aren’t significantly exact and it’s not at all times clear for those who’re standing barely too distant from one thing you’re supposed to have the ability to work together with. The set velocity at which you journey can also be considerably irritating. There are factors the place that you must soar onto one thing, or flee from or sneak previous a monster, and people moments fall flat as a result of not having management over your velocity.
This appears as if the primary ache factors might be all the way down to the two.5D construction, which is an formidable strategy that’s tough to tug off. Often, a puzzle would require depth notion, however not regularly sufficient that you simply get right into a behavior of factoring the background into your strategy.
It will be good to see extra of the vine mechanic, as the thought of it ties properly into the premise of the sport. This means can solely be utilized in a handful of particular conditions. There are a selection of puzzles all through the sport that appear to be the vine mechanic can be helpful the place it isn’t the choice and you’ll’t even attempt. It makes it very clear that there’s just one obtainable answer to every puzzle and little room to experiment with the one distinctive function your playable character has.
This mechanic may even have been an fascinating car to spotlight extra of the story. One Final Breath is silent, leaving it as much as you to piece collectively the narrative for your self. That is one other frequent however tough feat that might be higher applied on this sport. There isn’t sufficient within the panorama or puzzles to tell apart One Final Breath from different generic, put up apocalyptic sci fi and make its personal plot clear.
The environmental message and the story of hope within the face of utter destruction in One Final Breath is one which resonates. The depiction of the ruined world is nice, with some consideration to element coming by way of fantastically. Nevertheless, different particulars that make comparable video games shine fall flat on this one, and the story outlined within the sport’s description doesn’t come by way of as clearly because it may within the precise gameplay. For a brief, low cost sport, there’s a lot that’s satisfying, however it’s overshadowed by its competitors within the style.
