Excellent Concept, Many Flaws – Escape Master Review

The idea of this game is excellent: a gravity based survival game. However, it is excessively difficult. To begin with, 50% of the time I start I am immediately killed by a meteor that comes in before I can even move my character. Secondly, 40 second survival is impossible. You cannot see the meteors for most of the time due to their high velocities, so it is impossible to predict where they will come back onto the screen and at what velocity. Therefore, without knowing where the meteors are, you simply cannot reach 40 seconds by skill; it would have to be entirely luck. Finally, the difficulty of the levels is ridiculous. Level one, which I assumed would be simple to allow the player to get used to the game, was almost impossible. By the time I hit 20 seconds out of the 40 needed for survival, there would be over 5 meteors flying across the screen at a time, making it impossible to avoid all of them.
Review by Tagaboo94 on Escape Master.