Not so good looking
The gameplay is... well, like any shift game, the shift games are a good concept. But I really don't like the graphics of this one. The pixelized antialiazing effect does not look good at all. It looks like a JPEG image encoded with really really bad quality, except it's a combination of pixelized jaggies and a failed attempt at smoothing it out. I think this game needs a few tweaks and then it'd be really enjoyable :)
Unnatractive.
I love SHIFT games, but this one was not only laggy, but looked much shittier than the other ones. I liked the whole monochromatic silhouette look. The round people are just stupid looking and annoying.
lag and bugs
Aside from the horrific lag time, which resulted in the player dying multiple times, this causes controls to be unresponsive. Even with the pipe game or differences game, it was so lagging that I had to give up, even though I was doing well. I finally beat the main game, but not after suffering from lag related deaths countless times and repeated failed escapes due to same. How can you guys take a simple game like shift and screw it up so badly? It's like taking something as wonderful as a hamburger and insisting it have a million other things to it, and you end up with Applebee's: overflavored, overcooked, overrated. I can see why you had to offer this for free, because it must have really not sold, for the pure suck factor of the lag and minigames.
One big bug in the thing is that when you are pulling a block, for no apparent reason, you'll suddenly appear somewhere else on the board, same orientation, but you basically have to restart. As a result, I had to skip a few and come back. Then, once I did have my skips back, and I tried the minigames, the controls for the pipe game were unresponsive. Just for no reason, the thing would freeze up, but the counter would still clock down. I was already disappointed by Shift 4, with all its lags, but then this just breaks the mold for all time bad games. Understand, I played it and beat it, because it was fun and challenging, but the problems in game play make it so that I never want to do so again.
Simplify and streamline the code, so it plays easier, please.
Well...
I loved the SHIFT series, so I thought: "Wow, cool! Another great game!" However, when I started playing... I really tried to like this game, but it has just too much lag and bugs. The five is because of the series.
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Way too laggy and glitchy.. sometimes i get transported to a different part of the game area for no reason at all. and the boces, when pushed sometimes disappear then reappear, leaving my character in the box...
Not so good.. :|