Waking

"Waking will have you eager to wake up within the first few hours. Its compelling self-reflective narrative is overshadowed by some of the worse adventure mechanics and systems that I have played in quite some time. Perhaps the game should …"

"...one of the slowest and painful games to play this year."

"Waking is a trip to the depths of your mind, if you choose to play along, you might learn a thing or two about yourself. Too bad it lacks in presentation and gameplay, and a lot of the sub systems …"

"Ultimately, Waking is its own worst enemy, since it seems confused as to what kind of game/experience it wants itself to be. The memory sections are interesting to say the least, but Waking has burdened itself with some really average …"

"As long as you are entirely truthful and lay bare your soul to the title, Waking is by far the most deeply personal, deeply moving experience in video game history."

"The concept is outstanding and I wanted to love it, I really did. Aside from the numerous issues I’ve already mentioned, the biggest downfall is that it just didn’t know what kind of game it wanted to be."

"This is painful. Waking was made by one person and is a game of true passion. It contains a concept I would like to recommend to anyone who is comfortable enough to delve within themselves for the sake of an …"

"I wanted to love Waking. It&s;s approach and the first minute are as special as they are unique. Which game makes your first pet to your companion and a bit of soil from your hometown to your special weapon, after …"

"Waking struggles with bland gameplay and disjointed challenges, despite its deep themes. The concept had potential, but the execution falls short."

"Overall Waking tries, but it&s;s not enough. It tries with the excellent meditative phases, it tries by building an action RPG apparatus based on personal emotions and our intimate knowledge of ourselves, which will lead us to transubstantiate our fears …"

"Waking tries to be a very unique experience, but all it manages to do is be way too long, frustrating, and unintentionally hilarious"

"The concept of Waking is an admirable one. To place the player at the centre of the narrative and mechanics of a game, tailoring it to their choices, is a lofty goal and one that it falls well short of. …"

"At the beginning, Waking presents itself as a game with grand ideas about self-discovery and how this is going to be a very personal experience but the execution of these ideas leaves a lot to be desired. The combat system …"

"Waking is a fascinating experiment that tries, but ultimately fails, to combine two radically different ideas together. Less would certainly have been more here, as the clunky and overly confusing action parts get in the way of the interesting narrative …"

"Waking tries to take the best of many different genres but creates a horrible mess of clashing, ugly parts."