My Time at Portia was a game that I was looking forward to playing MONTHS before its release on the Switch. I remember feeling excited when I saw the first trailer for it and when I found out it was being released on the Switch, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it so that I could immerse myself into a whole world on the go.
Fast forward to like, a month, after its release and I don’t want to say I’m disappointed but for lack of a better word that’s what I’m going to use.
I’ve put well over 100 hours into this game and I finally feel like it’s time to write out my feelings. It’s bad. It’s not the worst game ever but let me try to break it down for you:
The game feels like it’s unfinished or rushed. NPCs in the background will be sliding from one end of the screen to the other, there’s no voice acting in the Switch version, so when there’s important story related scenes you’re just sitting either in front of your tv or with your Switch in your hands in silence as the scene takes place; there isn’t even music or any other sound, there’s just dead silence. When you’re heading into dungeons to complete levels, the game will CHUG along at a frustrating speed. It got to the point where my character was slow motion running through the dungeons and when you’re trying to fight enemies, who by the way, are immune to the chugging it becomes very difficult. When you’re trying to open the camera to take selfies or photos of anything your game feels like it’s about to combust, and mine did, not literally but it did crash because of that 2 or 3 times. Speaking of crashing, in total I want to say my game crashed about 7 times before the patch they just put out. I wish I was being hyperbolic.
These are just things I could think of on the top of my head because I feel like they were things that anyone could get frustrated with. I feel like my complaints weren’t nit-picky stuff that were just opinion based rather they were just the functionality of the game. The Devs of the game put out a patch to fix all of the things mentioned in the above paragraph but after the patch was downloaded and I was wide eyed and ready to jump into the game things took a turn for the worst.
At one point my character’s neck was broken. He was stuck walking around with a bent neck and after laughing at it for a few minutes I restarted the game and he was back to normal. Instead of the game crashing or chugging in the dungeons, the game now chugs when you open and close the menu which, for a game like this, you need to do quite a lot in order to look at your quests, or materials, ect. I just got fed up of even trying to work past the chug and the lag that I put the game away and I haven’t touched it again. In fact, I’m going out of my way to not play that game.
If you look past all of the flaws the game has the potential to be really good and one of my favorites! The story and the setting are amazing, sort of mysterious and post apocalyptic. The characters in the town are likable and even your nemesis, Higgins, really FEELS like your competition. There are a lot of cute events to go to in the town and it was really fun learning about the town’s traditions and customs and it was also really nice being invited to things. I really caught myself being completely immersed in this game not to mention the visuals and the music were stunning.
I’m really hoping one day that they release another patch fixing the inability to really play WELL. I loved my time in Portia and I would very much like to go back.
You can pick up My Time at Portia for the Nintendo Switch, Steam, Xbox 1 and PS4
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