Missing something... a lot of somethings – Glitch World Review

so, it's pretty easy to tell clear off the bat that this app's trying to run in the same veins as the likes of Yume Nikki and LSD Dream Emulator. y'know, the wander around aimlessly and look at weird stuff playstyle. aaand... i like those games a lot, so i can respect that. unfortunately, though, Glitch World ends up feeling really empty - in a genre where there's a lot of empty spaces to begin with. basically, you walk through a square room with textures and go through a door that leads into another, basically identical room with different textures. it switches through a few different (stock?) songs (i don't know how many, as i had heard about 4 or 5 before i stopped playing) and much like LSD Dream Emulator, the textures corrupt over time. however, i really didn't have to play long before being faced with constant repeats, and the texture glitches are little more than unimpressive jpg corruptions (and on the note of jpgs, many of the textures were awkwardly compressed.) and, most egregiously of all, this game is missing something preeeeetty important: characters, objects, anything.imagine Yume Nikki or LSD Dream Emulator without its interesting and strange-looking little dream world denizens. now imagine if they also were both series of identical square rooms with different wallpapers, and you have Glitch World. an aimless wandering game doesn't really work if you don't have anything to find. as the sad cherry on top, though, this game also controls REALLY badly... it's incredibly hard just to walk in a straight line across the room. the little silver lining to this at least is that you can teleport by double tapping, though at one point i did teleport out of the room's walls and very nearly fell out of bounds. a for effort, i guess?
Review by Cela08 on Glitch World.