Reviewing Tyler: Model 005 was heartbreaking, as I could see the game had its heart in the right place, as well as a handful of interesting ideas, but its gameplay and overall level of polish were so despicable I couldn’t stand playing it for long. It’s just a broken and unfinished game that should have stayed under development for longer in order to have all of its various issues fixed. There is a good idea hidden under this pile of disappointment, but it’s not worth the excavation.
Tyler: Model 005
Reversed Interactive · Aug 21, 2018
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Tyler: Model 005 is a 3D action-platformer and exploration game set in the 1950s where you customize and control a spunky miniature robot named Tyler. Many years after powering down, Tyler is accidentally powered on during a thunderstorm and must discover what has happened to his creator and home.
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- 5.0The darkness is an adequate-enough threat. Everything else -- the bugs, the XP system, the tower defense -- is a misplaced attempt to make this more of a game and it's executed poorly.There's a cute little story about rewriting the past at the heart of Tyler: Model 005. It's a shame those robots can't revise history and trim this game's excess so that it can focus on what's important.
- 2.7Don’t be fooled by the store’s slick images, Tyler Model 005 is a terrible game. There’s not a single quality that I can praise the game for outside of its somewhat competent upgrade and cosmetic system. This is the very product of lazy, rushed and sloppy development, making for an ugly experience that’s riddled with bugs, poor optimization, frustrating functionality, and heaps of loading screens, throughout.
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