The core gameplay is a lot of fun, everything bolted onto that waters it down.

- The story is awful, I really hated these characters, and it always felt like I was getting dialogue out of order?
- There are two good characters, and those are Captain and the Shopkeeper. Every other character is so unbelievably annoying and has nothing relevant to say, I just wanted to stop hearing them talk.
- The procedural generation runs out of new stage types after the 3rd shard (there are 10)
- Said generation frequently leads to unpredictable BS, in a game where any mistake is essentially an instant loss on normal difficulty.
- There are only 3 bosses, which are repeated 3 times, with very minor changes.
- If we're being charitable, there really are only 3 stages that are repeated over and over--And every run feels the same regardless of what the background looks like.
- There's a big difficulty spike after shard 7 (which gets unbearable on shard 9 & 10)
- The items are not creative, and do not change how you play. Every run felt the same, for the 10 hours it took me to beat the game.
- The final boss is an interesting concept, but unwinnable unless you get a very specific run
- What's worse is that you can be having a god run, and still lose just because you're "going too fast" and the game decides to kill you for colliding with the nothing.

This is a fun game, but the effort to make it a rogue like feels so half hearted, it feels like an attempt to stretch a content bare game out to 10 hours.

Runs well on Linux w/ nvidia drivers

Main Story Completed Review -

Haste is a breath of fresh air, leaving you running at quick speeds with a need for quick reactions as you try to outpace the encroaching storm following behind you. This game does have both permanent upgrades, possible through tokens you unlock as you fail or complete runs, and randomized item upgrades you collect and unlock as you progress through each stage. Haste also provides the option of infinite runs, where you can choose to continue until you lose if you feel like the stage levels are too short for your taste. The soundtrack provided by Haste could not be any more perfect, with the high-paced, procedurally generated environments. My biggest gripe about this game would definitely have to be the clipping-like generation the terrain sometimes comes in with, causing very awkward stages. I've noticed this issue especially in the railway areas.

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genuinely the best sonic game i've ever played

real talk though the gameplay is stupidly addictive but after a few hours you'll need to install mods to let you go substantially faster because the game will feel too slow. Also everyone is ragging on the story but it's super bare bones and not even that bad. The world is ending, nobody knows why. Go.

throw on some fast paced game music or turn the volume up on the amazing soundtrack and just run.