Grand Mountain Adventure 9+

First Impression & Feedback

Didn't play a lot just released for maybe 30min. So take my review with a grain of salt. It might not be correct, maybe I missed it, or it will get improve later.
Start off with things I love. Sound effects are pretty satisfying. Music is good. Really like the simplistic art style, and the open world exploration. I like how I need to collect ski passes to unlock more areas. It's a very unique skiing game from any I played before. I really like the trails I leave behind when I ski. The rewind setting is a nice touch for when I failed a jump or hit a wall. Control is simple, physics is good.
Now the part I feel like can improve on. Personally I feel like the camera angle makes the skiing experience less enjoyable because it's backward. I wish it's the other way, or have a setting to do so. Bird eye view kind of remove the satisfaction of landing a jump because I don't have the sense of height. In addition, I feel like there's not enough tricks for us to do. It would be nice to be able to ski backward or do flips. (Also iPhone selfie camera blocks some of the words in settings)
Overall it's a solid game I would invest time in. But I think it can be improved on. That's some of my feedback after some gameplay hope it will help.

Fun and Frustrating

This is a beautiful game and can be very fun. Unfortunately camera issues pervade and, often, ruin the experience. The camera rarely allows you to see ahead. I understand that the developers want to control the aesthetic, pace, and performance of the game but the camera can be downright game breaking at times. There are just too many times when you cannot see where you are going.

It is common for the camera angle to rotate suddenly and hide either your skier or the path in front of you so you literally are skiing blindly. This issue arises most often in the steep, difficult and fast areas where you need to see the most. As a result, the game’s difficulty is not so much skill as it is luck and having to memorize the entire mountain’s terrain because a small little bump or ledge here (that you probably cannot see because of the poor camera angles) will give you just enough air that you miss your gate or soar off a cliff. Even then, memorizing the turns and sequences isn’t enough because when you can’t see your skier, you lose your line easily.

I still enjoy this game but I find myself having no desire to try to collect ski passes beyond what is necessary to open the next area. I do not want to try a challenge 100 times in hopes of getting lucky. Because that is what many of the challenges amount to: pure blind (literally) luck.

开发人员回复 ，

Hi, you can zoom out by pressing the player. Hope this helps /Viktor

Fan-freaking-tactic!

I grew up in the mountains skiing, boarding, racing and eventually found my passion in competitive free skiing. After several years of getting my career in order and becoming a dad the lack of time in the mountains meant I could no longer be competitive, but that doesn’t men I will ever stop loving it. Now this game lets it continue at work and home. The graphics and snow effects, controls (once you get the hang of it) and scale of this game are as close as you’ll get to being on snow in an office chair. The variety of challenges and terrain are spectacular. There are times on timed GS courses or when landing a cliff just right that your muscle memory kicks in and you literally feel it as if you were there. Of course this won’t apply if you have never been on a board/s, but that is only one tiny reason you would not enjoy this game as much as I have. I have completed every challenge and double diamond all the way through the 2021 expansion so I hope this game goes viral and allows the developers to continue expanding it for many years to come. For now it’s all Zen mode! No complaints there!