I didnвЂ™t encounter enough bugs to make me flip a desk over, but when you combine it with already rocky gameplay it just adds to this general sense of a lack of polish that became more and more irksome the longer I played. Most of it is minor, like framerate instability on PS5 or that time I got knocked off of a boss because he phased through an object in the world and didnвЂ™t bring me with him, but I also experienced three hard crashes while playing, including one that lost me quite a bit of progress. ItвЂ™s so, so very annoying that, even though it made me laugh the first couple times it happened, the longer I played the more it filled me with intractable fury.ДЄs if that werenвЂ™t enough, Praey for the Gods also tests the limits of patience with technical wonkiness. It takes several seconds each time and the animation frequently repeats multiple times back to back when, for example, a giant monster walks nearby. YouвЂ™ll also spend a lot of your time stumbling all over the place, because anytime your character is so much as breathed on she loses her balance, rolls to the ground, then picks herself back up and regains her footing. Anytime your character is so much as breathed on she loses her balance. The issues with climbing mechanics take these infrequent irritations and make them full-blown infuriating. ThereвЂ™s nothing worse than finally getting on top of a beast and reaching the area where you can deal damage, only to get repeatedly interrupted as youвЂ™re shaken around until you finally run out of stamina and tumble back to the ground. These problems mesh with the existing minor annoyances associated with this kind of game in the worst way possible вЂ“ things like how youвЂ™re constantly interrupted by the beast shaking you around like a rag doll and have to monitor your stamina meter the whole time. Considering how much time you spend climbing in Praey for the Gods, these annoyances end up haunting you almost every single step of the way through a mercifully short five-hour playthrough. Sometimes youвЂ™ll even just fall off of whatever you were climbing when youвЂ™ve still got stamina left and plummet to your death in a fit of pure rage. YouвЂ™ll get caught on random surfaces as you go and have to frantically jiggle the thumbstick until you break free, or start climbing in the wrong direction for no discernible reason and struggle to regain control.

Combined with the sluggish controls, there were many times where my death felt completely unfair and had me looking to the nonexistent referee for a slow-motion replay of that flagrant malarkey.Д¬limbing giant beasts is supposed to be Praey for the GodsвЂ™ headliner, but because you move so incredibly slowly, and the controls for climbing are so inconsistent, it oftentimes is more irritating than fun. There were times where I was clearly several feet away from an incoming attack and my character would flop to the ground like I was a FIFA player trying to get a foul called on the colossus attacking me. Basically, anytime one of the giants attacks they create a shockwave in the immediate area that deals tons of damage, knocks you to the ground for what feels like forever, and is just downright cheap. It certainly doesnвЂ™t help that I was constantly shocked by the things that killed me during boss fights.

I was constantly shocked by the things that killed me during boss fights. As you can imagine, lag in a combat-focused game where you can get killed in one hit is a recipe for plenty of rage, and even if I did acclimate to it at times, it never stopped being frustrating. Eventually my brain adjusted to the lag and it became less of an issue, but every time I put the controller down and picked it back up again later, IвЂ™d have to retrain myself all over again. It feels like it takes about a second for your character to react to anything you do, which got me killed a lot in the beginning. Most egregious among them is how unresponsive and clunky everything feels, from climbing to combat.

Praey for the gods 2021