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Featherweight Guest Review

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Featherweight is a 3rd person action/adventure which makes you embark on the journey of saving your friend from the Robots. This is the typical but different version of the boy saving the girl scenario.

Additional Info

DeveloperBen Chandler
GenreAdventure
PlatformsWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
EngineAdventure Game Studio
Filesize15.1 MB
Webpagehttp://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1231

Full Review

[This is a guest review written by Michael Farrant as part of his internship in IndieReview.]

Featherweight is something completely fresh and unique to the way new gamers see games. Newer gamers want action - they want to be able to take the easy route on games, but I believe that this isn't the true way to experience and learn from games. I mean this by looking past the pretty colours and visuals, I look deeper into the game's core structure and analyse it from that, especially in a game like this.

Newer games have been made for the idealistic solution of boredom and make them as mainstream and simple as possible, but there is something about these types of games that include a certain aspect that big games can't offer. I believe this feature is simplicity. Massive mainstream games (i.e. Halo 3) take years of work to structure their layout and design, whereas this game wouldn't take as long, but I believe that these games are the best because they aren't as complicated yet fun and simple to play.

I may belong to a younger generation of gamers but I know that these types of games are the best and will never be beaten. For this game has good interface, brilliant parallel music and a neat storyline that can get you interested.

The puzzles are intermediately easy, but some are tricky. Overall Featherweight is the perfect candidate for younger gamers who believe that something like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is the best game ever. In my opinion, they're wrong. It isn't and it will never be able to live up to the standard of these classic iconic games.

Featherweight's story is simple but yet addictive all at the same time. You play as a young rebel called Thadd, who embarks on a journey to stop the deadly alliance of the robots to destroy everything that isn't human. Like any game it may revolve around a love interest, in this case that interest has been captured and it is your mission to save the girl and destroy the robots.

So if you are into the whole fantasy of the stereotypical desire of rescuing the girl and becoming the hero, this game is for you.

I believe that it deserves its three and a half stars based on the terms that this game is point and click. By this I mean that Point and click is probably the simplest form of playing computer games, but I believe that the system is too non user friendly. It's unresponsive and the clues to help you advance to the next levels are impossibly hard to find and solve. For me this is a huge let down, and for other gamers I think that it will be a disappointing result, especially for Indie gamers.

As I said earlier, the simpler and easier these games are to play, the better they are and will continue to be.

Posted by Michael Farrant on June 18, 2010 Comments (1)


anonymous said at 2010-06-23 20:46:

The writing wasn't great and it seems like less of a review and more of a short essay on why retro indie games are better than mainstream ones.