iO review for PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One

Platform: PS4
Also On: PS Vita, PC, Xbox One
Publisher: Gamious
Developer: Gamious
Medium: Digital
Players: 1
Online: No
ESRB: E

Hereโ€™s how forgettable iO is: I honestly thought I wrote this review weeks and weeks ago, and only discovered just now, by chance, that Iโ€™d made that up in my head.

In my defense, iO is, as I said, hugely forgettable. On top of that, itโ€™s also incredibly generic: itโ€™s a platformer where youโ€™re 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.

Iโ€™d like to say that Iโ€™m oversimplifying things for effect, but I swear thatโ€™s 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 youโ€™re trying to build and the direction in which youโ€™re aiming for.

Not only that, iO isnโ€™t even visually interesting. Itโ€™s got a fondness for the colours blue and orangeโ€ฆand thatโ€™s 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 itโ€™s not memorably bad, either, but if thatโ€™s the gameโ€™s major selling point, it should tell you how far away you should stay.

Grade: C
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