Adverse

Genre: First-Person Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Adverse is a First-Person Platformer with some light First-Person Shooter elements released on PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2021. This game has players running and jumping their way through obstacle courses while carrying a bow and arrow.

The presentation here is simple, but good, featuring a clean, sparse look, with simple relatively low-poly 3D visuals that look nicer thanks to some good lighting and very nice-looking water effects. This pairs with the game’s new agey soundtrack to make for an overall placid look and feel that’s really nice.

When it comes to the gameplay, there’s nothing truly original or outstanding here, but overall the platforming is good, and makes for a fun challenge to see how fast you can rush through every level.

On the other hand, the shooting in this game is pretty terrible. The controls for aiming feel stiff and unresponsive up until you tilt the analog stick quite a distance from the center, at which point it becomes over-responsive. You can change the sensitivity in the options, but this only mitigates the frustration, it doesn’t eliminate it.

Sadly, there’s no gyroscopic motion control option, which could have saved this – only an aim assist that offers minimal help when you’re already close to your target. Sadly, you can’t just ignore the enemies and focus on the platforming either, as players are penalized points for doing so *on top of the frustration added by their shots pushing you around (and possibly off of a platform, forcing you to restart the level).

Overall, Adverse is still a decent First-Person Platformer, especially for the low $6 price tag, but it’s a shame that the game insists on forcing in the terrible shooting stuff, because it brings down what would have otherwise been a decent inexpensive obstacle course game. Still, if you can tolerate this frustrating element, this is a decent game for a low price.

tl;dr – Adverse is a First-Person Platforming game that has players running through obstacle courses while wielding a bow. For the most part, this is a solid but unspectacular entry in the genre, but the forced shooting elements control poorly and detract from the game. Still, for the low $6 price, it’s a decent distraction if you can ignore this flaw.

Grade: C+

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