Relooted

The premise is good. Heist stuff with a National Treasure type flare. The game is at it's best when it's doing that too. I like the core of the gameplay; Find your way into rooms, explore, find artifacts, plan an escape route and then escape fast. That part is good. Unfortunately, there is the not good and it messes with the core experience. I liked casing the smaller places, but it got to be a chore in the bigger, later levels. Also, early on every other level was a tutorial that seemed unnecessary and bulky to the experience. In between missions you also go back to your hub, which was cool looking, but I wanted more with it. Activities, mini-games, etc., just something more than have long meaningless talks with people. That is one my other points. The story is super dry and boring. It was fine early on, but every twist and turn was so corny and predictable it wasn't worth my time at a certain point. The characters are also super generic, very stereotypical architypes (techy, strong, rich, nerd, athletic, etc.), I wish they fleshed them out a bit more, they all just were very one note and just played their role. I also had several bugs that made me rerun missions and bug UI out at times. The in game save system is also very lacking. You cannot save on missions at all if you quit out. Even if you are one step away from finishing a long level, you start back at your hub if you quit or get a bug or error that closes the game. That is a real bummer and soured my experience quite a bit. This could have been a really cool game if it stuck to the simple planning stuff, exploration and getaway runner, but unfortunately it just falls quite a bit short. Maybe a sequel would clean some of this up, I'd be interested in giving a 2nd game a go.

Gameplay wise the idea has a lot of potential but sadly doesn't reach it. It's a basic platformer with some parkour elements and very light puzzles. Occasional jankiness aside it's completely fine. I would really like to see this idea taken further and refined. The storyline is predictable and the characters are one-dimensional cliches. The bar for stories in video games is much lower than other media, but this still fails to meet it.

Let me set the record straight: I am the target audience of this game. I am a South African citizen. I’m also a game developer who works with Unreal, and for the time being, mostly Unity — and I have to say, this is possibly the worst video game product to come out of South Africa. And I know exactly who, what, and why this game exists. Now, since I don’t want to mysteriously disappear, I’m going to rate this game incredibly fairly — that’s my job. I learn, I create, and I review stuff at my own leisure. Let’s start with performance and optimisation: it’s below standard. I genuinely don’t understand how people can make a product with some of the worst settings and optimisation for a game of this scale. The game runs like it’s constantly checking something in the background, like it’s necessary. This is a 2.5D game, not an open world. It’s meant to load in a level, and that’s about it. Constant stuttering on my PC running an RTX 3060, using my fastest M.2 PCIe 4 SSD — with enough speed to match, even surpass, the PS5.Then we have the graphics, and I hardly ever use these kinds of words because I think they’re cheap — but this perfectly describes it: “Cheap, uninspired garbage.”There are solo devs and PS2-era games that produce better animation, visuals, and graphics. I just played Big Hops, and that game is better than this because it looks fun, cute, and interesting enough to keep playing. This, however, is one of the most blatant and blind games in terms of diversity, story, and plot. Why are we stealing artefacts that are part of history? Because we’re returning them to their rightful place? That makes no sense. If that were the case, why not just contact the museums and trade for them? Aren’t the characters loaded with money and technology? None of it makes sense. There are games like Uncharted that perfectly explain why Nathan is going around shooting people, etc. He’s literally a thief trying to make ends meet by exploring and finding treasure. In this game, however, it’s because the artefacts are African and not kept in Africa… what?? Nyamakop literally needs to hire someone who can actually lead their studio to make a game worthwhile — something that shows we have competent developers in this country. ****, hire me. I can guarantee you I can lead a team and make something worth a damn. In fact, I’m doing it right now as we speak. Anyway, this game is not it. It’s not worth R100, not worth R50. This shouldn’t even exist — but we can thank the investors, and probably the South African government, for this slop. They’re making my job quite tough because when people see what I’m working on and they look at where it’s coming from, I can only hope everything goes smoothly. Ratings: Graphics: 4/10, stiff and uninteresting. Gameplay: 5/10, it can look okay, but overall, it’s nothing special and can often be boring. Music: 5/10, I’ve actually heard better African music… to my surprise. Story and Plot: 2/10, fairly poor in quality. Performance: 5/10, it’s not the best or the worst. 3/10. The game works. Is it fun? No. Is it worth your time? No. Does it offer any value on planet Earth? Probably not. Is it even worth pirating??? Hell no.

Relooted is an absolute disaster that fails on every conceivable level, making it impossible to recommend to anyone. On a technical note, the game is virtually unplayable; the frame rate is so abysmal that it feels more like a slideshow than an actual interactive experience. However, the technical flaws pale in comparison to the game’s toxic content. It is blatantly racist, relying on offensive tropes that depict Black characters as thieves while acting as if such behavior is perfectly normal. Furthermore, the game reduces diverse human cultures to the most ridiculous and insulting minimums, trading genuine creativity for dehumanizing caricatures. Between the broken engine and the deeply regressive worldview, Relooted is a project that deserves no place in your library. Save your money and steer clear of this mess.

Dont believe good reviews they are from devs, family, bots and paid utubers. For me even free even watch it on utube not worth it. - 7:30 - 11 hours long (game drags to long make me want punch someone to finish the game). -very very repetitive cringe woke boring 2d puzzle parkour stealing game, cringe awful stupid story, awful stupid open ending, 95% unlikeable characters, 95% bad cringe voice acting advice from me skip dialogs and cutsences, game unfun no thanks play again to collect secrets or play side missions, very very repetitive bad unfun parkour sections all u do hold r2 and press repeatedly x or [] like brick, good puzzles how to steal artifacts but then become very repetitive boring. -only good music and colorful graphics.