Breathedge

Breathedge is a confusing mess of mechanics that could have been brilliant, but ends up being frustrating and tedious. It has the potential to be 5/5 but ends up more like 2/5 the further you get. The atmosphere is ruined by the suit AI, delivering voice lines at the speed of a "terms and conditions apply" small text in an American radio advert. Tool durability is so low you spent most of your time gathering resources to make more tools. Oxygen is always running out. After 15 hours I decided I'd wasted enough time trying to enjoy it and just gave up. If you do decide to give it a go, I'd recommend turning off the voice entirely, and finding some kind of cheat system to remove durability.

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Looks like they didn't pay attention to all the feedback saying the suit AI narration was too fast. I cannot state this enough - the speed that the suit AI talks at completely ruins the game. I can't understand what it's saying because it talks so fast. It sounds like one of those American 'terms and conditions apply' at the end of a radio advert, and it's used for literally everything in the game, from interesting information to important quests. Maybe it's meant to be funny but it's just irritating and makes it hard to understand what's going on
Seems like it would be pretty easy to run out of non-renewable resources and have to restart the game after a dozen hours
The oxygen tanks are too small, even fully upgraded
The attempts at humour mostly fall flat and are just immersion breaking. One of the early quests is called "Build some crap imposed by the developers" and they make multiple references to being an indie dev team artificually extending gameplay
It took me 2 hours to discover there was storage on the shuttle and I didn't just have to dump everything on the floor
Oxygen depletes while the menu is open
Resources aren't renewable
Not enough storage space
Tool durability is so low that you have to remake them after every 5 uses. And it takes 3 uses to gather enough materials to make a new tool. Carrying two at a time sometimes helps, but then you have no inventory space left
Ultrawidescreen doesn't work properly, it's just zoomed in
There are only 4 action hotkeys, and a dozen tools to use. I'm not playing on console, give me more buttons
It's possible to miss several achivements and not be able to get them later
I can't tell whether the bad translation is actually bad, or deliberately bad because it's meant to be funny
There are so many map icons that it's sometimes hard to see where you're going - and you can't even place your own markers
You can't lookup recipes for crafting when you're not at the station
It took 7 hours before the story started at all

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