Inertia 2 has a fatal flaw. All I could keep thinking playing this first-person platformer was how a Midnight Works game was better. For the uninitiated, Midnight Works is the foremost purveyor of crap on the E-Shop, read this editorial for more info. Early this year, the released a game called Midnight Runner. It in hindsight was very rough around the edges, but it was charming and playable, dare say it fun at times. Inertia 2 is really, really boring and has absolutely no charm whatsoever. You are a guy and must traverse obstacle courses to the exit, except its way too easy and so spartan its off putting.
The tutorial introduces you to everything Inertia 2 has to offer. You can Jump, double jump, slide, pull yourself up, and wall run specific walls. There are platforms, bounce pads, spinning platforms and collapsible platforms. That’s it. There are no surprises, no ace up its sleeve. Midnight Runner at least differentiated the levels with different sound and music. There is no sound in Inertia 2 except for your running and grunting. All levels have that spartan look in the screen shot. The game aims for you to beat the levels in thirty seconds. There are 30 levels, you can theoretically beat this in less than 20 minutes.
Inertia 2 offers no replay value. Beat the 30 levels, that’s it. No medals for faster runs. Also every time you beat a level, you go back to the main menu and have to manually select the next level. There are no options besides some basic movement tweaking(sensitivity and x and y-axis inversion). Midnight Runner had more quality of life than this features, even with the Engrish.
Yeah I said it, and I’m not taking it back. Midnight Runner is the better game, as strange as that sounds. When the foremost purveyor of absolute garbage games produces something better, the developers have a huge problem. And looking at their catalog, Loneminded appears to make the same games over again. Inertia 2 is apparently a sequel, but sure doesn’t feel like one. This is getting a Not Recommended.
Overall: When a Midnight Works game is better than Inertia 2, the developers have a serious problem.
Verdict: Not Recommended
| Platform | Nintendo Switch |
| Release Date | 11/20/23 |
| Cost | $4.39 |
| Publisher | Loneminded |
| ESRB Rating | T |
