Grand Mountain Adventure

Seriously. Only game I play. I’ll occasionally download critical thinkers but I end up deleting them because they get old for me most of the time. I’ve been playing GMA since it was released and haven’t gotten tired of it. I wanted to write this review to express my love for the game but also to get some attention on some future nice to haves. 1.) It would be great to have the option to change the color of pants, jacket, skis 2.) I love the new POV from behind, but I’ve been craving an even closer POV than “near”. I used to play gnarshmallow many years ago and I would right click the browser and zoom in just because I was at the point that I had maps memorized so I knew exactly where obstacles were. (Even a first person view might be cool like the game Steep, but maybe that might be far fetched for GMA. But maybe not!) 3.) another one would be to have an all park level that also included new boxes and rails similar to the ones in real life with the real sound of grinding on metal for the rails and real sound of grinding on plastic for the boxes. 4.) it would also be cool to hear different sounds of ski poles and skis hitting one another when doing certain tricks in the air. 5.) craving to do some extra cool butter tricks similar to that of Henrik harlaut! Maybe if players made a quick circular motion with their thumb while playing, the skier could do a quick butter 180 before taking off the jump? All ideas that I day dream about! Love the game and love the team behind it! Thank you again for this masterpiece!

This is a beautiful game and can be very fun. Unfortunately camera issues pervade and, often, ruin the experience. The camera rarely allows you to see ahead. I understand that the developers want to control the aesthetic, pace, and performance of the game but the camera can be downright game breaking at times. There are just too many times when you cannot see where you are going. It is common for the camera angle to rotate suddenly and hide either your skier or the path in front of you so you literally are skiing blindly. This issue arises most often in the steep, difficult and fast areas where you need to see the most. As a result, the game’s difficulty is not so much skill as it is luck and having to memorize the entire mountain’s terrain because a small little bump or ledge here (that you probably cannot see because of the poor camera angles) will give you just enough air that you miss your gate or soar off a cliff. Even then, memorizing the turns and sequences isn’t enough because when you can’t see your skier, you lose your line easily. I still enjoy this game but I find myself having no desire to try to collect ski passes beyond what is necessary to open the next area. I do not want to try a challenge 100 times in hopes of getting lucky. Because that is what many of the challenges amount to: pure blind (literally) luck.

Didn't play a lot just released for maybe 30min. So take my review with a grain of salt. It might not be correct, maybe I missed it, or it will get improve later. Start off with things I love. Sound effects are pretty satisfying. Music is good. Really like the simplistic art style, and the open world exploration. I like how I need to collect ski passes to unlock more areas. It's a very unique skiing game from any I played before. I really like the trails I leave behind when I ski. The rewind setting is a nice touch for when I failed a jump or hit a wall. Control is simple, physics is good. Now the part I feel like can improve on. Personally I feel like the camera angle makes the skiing experience less enjoyable because it's backward. I wish it's the other way, or have a setting to do so. Bird eye view kind of remove the satisfaction of landing a jump because I don't have the sense of height. In addition, I feel like there's not enough tricks for us to do. It would be nice to be able to ski backward or do flips. (Also iPhone selfie camera blocks some of the words in settings) Overall it's a solid game I would invest time in. But I think it can be improved on. That's some of my feedback after some gameplay hope it will help.