I know there's some discrepancy in the frame rate (I don't have a PS3/4 so can't check), but the animation on The Swindle's characters is like papercraft puppets with pins at the joints, so it doesn't look that bad. I'm no expert, but It's most noticable to me when descending from a jump that there are a few frames being missed. Thing is, it's a slow-paced game anyway (although you can upgrade your movement speed etc), there's a lot of planning your next move, it's not like Mario, Rayman or Shovel Knight where you are almost constantly moving, or Borderlands where you have whole minutes of frantic combat, so it really hasn't affected my enjoyment. When you mess up and it does get frantic, it's only for a few seconds- you're either about to die or running straight for the exit anyway
All I know is that I'm really enjoying it, I love the more cerebral take on a platformer. But seeing as it's crossbuy, if you have any other PS systems it's defo worth trying it on them all to see the difference.
I've noticed a couple of bugs too-once I've fallen from the edge of a platform onto spikes without pushing the d-pad (unless the idea is you can't stand on the very edge like mega man/Mario etc), and once I've managed to jump up through a thick ceiling (it wasn't a secret passage). At the start of the game where you haven't upgraded your jump, it's also possible to get stuck, and you have to use the 'terminate operative' command to escape. It would have been cool to have a very, very slow grappling hook/rope from the start that is obviously worse than upgrading the jump, as otherwise it seems very silly to be able to get trapped in someone's house because their dining room is at the bottom of a thirty-metre pit! Later on it's much less of an issue, after a couple of hours virtually all my deaths are coming from getting greedy and failing to learn when to say 'that room isn't worth it'- once I leapt into a dead-end room and killed everything, risking my haul and my life, only to then realise there was no money or computer in it! When you have the upgrade where you are paid for each kill, being aggressive helps, but otherwise I'm casing each joint looking for the easiest routes to it's computers (which you should prioritise) and easy isolated kills first, and not taking on more than I can handle.
I love the way you are reminded how many days you have left at the start of every mission, and it looks like there is an upgrade to extend the deadline if you are running up against it in the late game.
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