The Ascent | Is It Worth It?

This is the Ascent, a top-down twin-stick shooter with relatively light RPG elements, set in the cyberpunk world of Veles. It was developed by the swedish game dev studio Neon Giant and published by the London-based Curve Games. Now, Curve is relatively prolific when it comes to publishing indie games: For the King, Just Die Already. Human Fall Flat, Manual Samuel. Neon Giant is not the same. In fact, NG only has one title listed on Steam, and you’re looking at it right now. You might think that this, then, would be an impressive first outing, but you’d only be half-right. Yes, this is Neon Giant’s first game, but it isn’t the first game for those who worked on it. NG was founded by industry veterans. You can even see some of these founders working on the game in real time. Take the most immediately accessible example, Co-Founder Tor Frick. He’s got a KZbin channel - / @torfrick - Where you can actually see these designs spawn into existence, but you don’t need them to know his skillset. The guy’s worked as an Art Director for New Order and Old Blood - Plus did some work on Far Cry 3, BulletStorm, and Gears of War 3. The same could be easily said about the remaining founders as well: Arcade Berg, Jonathan Heckley, and Erik Gloerson.
Still, it remains Neon Giant’s first game, technicality or not. Begs the question:
Is The Ascent Worth It?
Ultimately, I think I had fun with it. Recency bias makes me feel some amount of annoyed at it, but overall I enjoyed my time with it. I still don't know why so many people were claiming "This is what Cyberpunk 2077 should've been" when it released though.
- ST0RY
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[@slayerthegamer3058]

I'm glad i stumbled upon this video to listen to at work, as i usually have my videos playing audio only i obviously missed out on the visual aspects for 98% of the video. But I will say you did a good job at keeping the audio levels balanced, your voice didn't get washed out by the game/music/whatever else, and nothing was overwhelmingly loud. As for the future video, Im excited to see what you have to say about Cult of the Lamb as ive played a pretty good amount of it and will be looking forward to the video!

[@toomazi564]

love when i dont notice a video has 100 views. keep it pushin g

[@saltgoblin]

I agree, much higher quality video than the view count would indicate.

[@delinobedinotti1426]

Great review! Thnx! Just bought it.

[@ST0RYTEL13R]

Just be mindful of the level gap :P

[@spectraleggings]

I liked this game very much, shame the genre is not for me, I suck at twin stick. Gr8 video!

[@saltgoblin]

You didn't ask for any feedback, but I would upload a more concentrated video just to see how it performs. 10 minutes top. I did that with my Path of Exile video and it's the best-performing video on my channel.

[@ST0RYTEL13R]

I don't know, I don't think time is reflective of a video's quality or in this case performance. I mean, my most viewed video is my review on Diablo 2, which sits at 21 minutes with 17,000 views.

[@saltgoblin]

@@ST0RYTEL13R Well, that's 30 minutes shorter than this video here hehe. Nice video by the way, I should have said that in my previous comment!

[@maikal87]

Played and finish it few times. few addition i want would be longer and better story and more weapon.

[@ST0RYTEL13R]

Better story would be top of my list. Although I don't think that would be a surprise.