I’m easily pleased. Just adding a grappling hook to a game automatically increases its overall worth by 31%. So when I saw The Free Ones has leaping and grappling and swooping and jumping, I was in. Set in a world where a group of enslaved humans are escaping an unseen enemy, you are equipped with a special glove that allows you to latch on to any wooden object in the world and propel yourself toward it. Added with what appears to be a preternatural ability to leap huge distances and fall from any height, you’re immediately equipped to fling yourself around the pretty nighttime world, on a series of missions to make good your escape. Which all sounds splendid. It’s just, The Free Ones, by a whisker, just isn’t good enough. Well, it’s a bigger problem that that: it’s just not good enough by too many different whiskers. (more…)
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