This game deserves every bit of the acclaim it has earned for its skill at setting the mood. Even with the painfully ugly blocky first generation 3D graphics of the Play Station, they manage to hone an esthetic and the music really sells the atmosphere. The controls, however, are a major problem. They are slow, the button mapping is a little unintuitive, and it fails to adjust with the different camera angle as you enter a new area so I frequently find my self hopping backward even though I am pressing forward on the D-pad. They did some very interesting things with the transition of camera angles as you enter new areas. A great example of this is at 1:45 on the video below, and the part where he crashes into a wall is also a great example of how the directional controls fail to keep pace with this avant garde camera work. These controls are truly terrible, I am glad they did not prevent the game for getting recognition for all the things it did right.
A game play video
In a five star ranking system,
the controls get a 1.5
every other aspect of the game gets a 5
and so the game overall gets a 4
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