Returner Zhero - Final Cut

As with Returner 77, this is eye poppingly beautiful. The graphics are on par with or better than other games in the point and click puzzle genre. The touch controls are really, really clunky, though. Very slow and unresponsive, to the point where I thought I was stuck because I couldn’t get to something due to unresponsiveness. At times it feels light on puzzles, too- many times the puzzles were too easy, or an important thing happened just because I pressed a button. Overall, it was worth playing for some fun puzzles and the totally amazing graphics. To the devs: beef up your puzzles and fix the controls so that they live up to the dazzling graphics and you’ll have games on par with The Room series.

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I can’t fathom why anyone in their right mind gave this game a positive review. Just like the first game, Returner77, this one has beautiful graphics & sound. Unfortunately, just like the first game, that’s all it has going for it. The story still makes no sense. The gameplay is still the same slog of repetitive, generic puzzles - only this time around there is actually LESS variety to them. Another bad thing (which I neglected to mention in my review of this game’s predecessor) it has in common with Returner77 is that it both drains your battery life heats up your phone within minutes. The plot boils down to: get off the ship. That’s IT. No startling revelations, and still no questions answered about the aliens or the characters or even the earth back home. And SPOILER ALERT: if you were ever wondering what happened to your character from the first game after they got blown into space.. the mystery is solved in the most underwhelming manner possible. When you make it to the end of the game it simply says, “Oh, we sent him home already.” Yeah. That’s it. It’s a shame, because if they had put the same amount of effort into the gameplay as they did the presentation, I feel like this company could have produced a couple of pretty decent games. As it is, I regret wasting my money on buying the Returner77/ReturnerZeroh bundle.

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For some reason, the developers think we will be fine with it if we lose all our progress every time they push an update. After all. all the levels are unlocked, right? And as a player, you’ll have memorized your place in the game- and of COURSE you want to have to sit through the unskippable conversation at the beginning of the level!!! No. No one wants to do that. Especially not just to go back to collect memories. The least they could do is make the one way conversations skippable. Thank you for erasing my game data; I think it’s time to erase your game from my phone... it’s a shame because otherwise, it’s a visually interesting game with a good mix of puzzles. It’s really just the repetition being enforced that ruins it, and that’s bad game design, not even a bug. So it may be worth your while to play the first time. Just be aware that your progress may get wiped at any point when they update the game. You’ll still have access to each level, just jot down which one you’re on because you can’t always easily pop in and out to see which it is, you have to sit through the dialogue.

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This game has no potential. I’d give it less than one star if I could. Agree with other reviews that the game controls are beyond terrible. Very simple puzzles are frustrating because you can’t reliably turn a ring without it jumping out of place. If you eventually give up and tell the AI to calculate a solution for you, it just skips the screen and you don’t even get the satisfaction of seeing it “calculate” a solution or even what the solution was. Tries to have a story line that is so slow it’s more boring than a bad sci fi movie. Very simple puzzles that are hard in the wrong way because you can’t tell what you are supposed to do. Long drawn out graphic sequences like light traveling up a wall that lend nothing to the experience. A scanner function that identifies locations and when you double tap to go there after it crawls at a snail’s pace to that location there is nothing to do. Fun? Glad it was only $0.99 and even at that it wasn’t worth it. Deleted and I’m going back to watching Netflix. Stay away. Stay very far away.

I somehow managed to discover the first game, Returner 77, only about a month ago, so I was very happy to find this had already come out. (Stupid cliffhangers! Got to love them, though...) I feel like this is a very clever sequel and not at all what I was expecting. It definitely took me a few moments to understand who and where I was in relation to the story I already knew. Now I’m psyched to keep playing! The visuals are still amazing with great music and sound that make a very atmospheric experience. Puzzles/alien tech are very intuitive and just way too fun to interact with. This is definitely one of those “hands-on” style of adventure games that I just love to play. I definitely have not experienced any gameplay issues like other reviewers. Please keep making fantastic games!