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Shadow complex - great game with BIG problems

About 4-5 hours ago i finished Shadow Complex on insane, with 100% and managed to clock in at 5 hours.  
I found the gameplay highly addictive and story interesting without getting me too involved. 
It's rich environments and good music makes it a game to buy even just for the experience, even though the graphics aren't that great.
It seems the game only really suffers in the technical department, because every flaw i can think of is of is either a bug or a poorly accomplished feature.
I'll give you some examples.  

This was my second time through. I managed to bug the game into making me finish it without the hookshot the first time. (Everyone who has played the game knows that you really can't do that.) 
For some reason the door to the room where you get the double jump was open, and I got over the large pit with my foam gun. 

Like this only it fucks up your game
Like this only it fucks up your game
And also the door to the room where you get the hookshot was locked (I have no idea how that happened. it's a rocket door, you shoot it with rockets and it opens. why didn't it work?), so i had to finish the game without it. Yeah.... bummer.  Now even the second time it managed to bug up. No bugs for the entire game until, in the ending cinematic, all the textures disappear form Jasons head, so it looks like a clay model with some purple spots on it. And I think "Ok that's weird. but hey, nothing else at least.". But as it turns out, I was wrong. In that moment his head stretches out of the screen and the mouths stop animating. Great work guys... just great...

Another thing i remember is when you run through or move faster than 5 rooms pr 15 seconds all the textures mess up. I mean like entire walls of gray, black and white dots. It's really annoying when trying to get under 3 hours, as I am now. 
 
How it should look
How it should look

And here is the worst flaw in the game. The leaderboards suck really, REALLY hard! I mean like i want to load the "let's get punchy" leaderboards list and it literally jamms my 360 up. I have to press the off switch and restart it to do anything on my xbox, which is awfully stupid. and that's not all. When you sometimes get into it, It half the time shows the wrong stats. ATM i think i have 1005 close combat kills, I'm certain it's over 1000 (and that's what i finished the game with on the second run). Anyway the leaderboards say that i have 843 or something, then 17 and before you know it's back up to 843. It's like a fucking randombox. It also tells me that no one in the world has a time in story mode. "This leaderboards does not exist" What? Are you kidding me? 
 
It might look like I'm a hater because of this, but i absolutely love this game. And i hope that the devs can repair some of this stuff in a patch or something, because right now it's kinda broken. Even with it's flaws i can't say you shouldn't buy it. The game is great, JUST DON'T GO FOR THE DOUBLE JUMP FIRST! 
And I'm gonna add my favorite song, Just because it's fantastic (and when you hear it you know you are done):
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