Space Wave Race

First, I'd like to start off by saying that I have thoroughly enjoyed what I've played so far. This is a very fun game, but there is some improvement to be made, especially for the asking price. This is my first accessible mobile game I've played. I started on medium difficulty, but I moved up to hard fairly quickly.

I'll start with the biggest issue I'm having, and that's figuring out where asteroids are. When there's only one in the way, I listen for the slight change in sound when it's in my lane, but when there are two, it's next to impossible to figure out which direction I should move until it's too late. I tried lowering the difficulty, but by the time the asteroids are close enough for me to tell which lane they're in, my ship's blown up.

When I first played the game, I didn't get any indication that I needed headphones. It became obvious rather quickly once I realized I could hardly hear some sounds and couldn't position them at all. I popped in Airpods pro, and that helped a lot. I think the game should tell you this on first startup. On the subject of volume, the mixing could use some improvement. lowering the volume of the music helps make other sounds more audible, but the ship noise can sometimes make other sounds hard to make out.

The TTS voice, although not irritating, is extremely slow. Some of us can crank Voiceover up to full speed, so having an option for the in-game voice rate would be much appreciated. The most annoying slowdown is during the readout of your race time. It is painfully, comically, terribly slow. It also has habit of playing over the "victory" voice clip.

The settings would also benefit from clarification on what they do. I ended up disabling the in-game voice completely because I didn't know what the Voiceover setting did. I'm also unclear as to what specific changes the various difficulty levels make. Also, I would love love love to completely disable TTS announcements during races. Previous issues aside, I can hear when ships, asteroids, and turns are coming. It helps at first, but it can feel patronizing the more you play. Lastly, turns took me by surprise. I was expecting them, however I wasn't expecting turns wide enough to require multiple swipes.

To summarize, the sound design for blind players is good, but there are a few flaws which limit the fun that can be had. The TTS voice also needs more customizability. I'd also like to reiterate that this is a good game. I don't regret buying it, though I think 3 bucks is a bit steep considering the issues I've brought up. However, I like it, and I intend on continuing to play it.