Also On: PS Vita, PC, Xbox One
Publisher: Gamious
Developer: Gamious
Medium: Digital
Players: 1
Online: No
ESRB: E
Hereโs how forgettable iO is: I honestly thought I wrote this review weeks and weeks ago, and only discovered just now, by chance, that Iโd made that up in my head.
In my defense, iO is, as I said, hugely forgettable. On top of that, itโs also incredibly generic: itโs a platformer where youโre rolling a ball from point A to point B. The specifics may differentiate it a little from some of its peers and influences, but not to any degree that makes the game memorable or worth checking out.
Iโd like to say that Iโm oversimplifying things for effect, but I swear thatโs not the case. You really are just rolling a ball around a 2D environment. Occasionally you make the ball grow or shrink, depending on what kind of momentum youโre trying to build and the direction in which youโre aiming for.
Not only that, iO isnโt even visually interesting. Itโs got a fondness for the colours blue and orangeโฆand thatโs really the only thing memorable about it.
But not too memorable. Because, as noted, iO is not a memorable game. The good news, I suppose, is that being thoroughly forgettable also means that itโs not memorably bad, either, but if thatโs the gameโs major selling point, it should tell you how far away you should stay.