Love

released on Feb 07, 2014

Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, competitive scoring, and a simple-to-use level creation feature. The challenging levels are balanced with the inclusion of a simple yet unique respawn system wherein the player can leave a checkpoint at any location at any point, as long as they are on solid ground. Players have a number of gameplay modes to choose from, whether they want it easy, normal, or they want to try their hand at a mode designed specifically for Speed Running. Beyond the visual aesthetic, the challenging level design, and the abundance of features, there is the fantastic soundtrack composed by James Bennett, which brings the simple 3-color atmospheres to life.


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This is a game so tiny that I debated whether or not to even write a review here for it, but it DOES have its own entry and such on the Epic Game Store (where it's one of many games I've gotten for free over the years), so I figure it's only fair to write a review for it like I would anything else. It took me about 30-ish minutes to play through the arcade mode and the extra levels beyond that.

LOVE is a little precision platformer with no story and no premise beyond just "do it as well as you can". In level select, you can play any level you want (of course) including 10 levels not in the arcade mode, and arcade mode itself is 100 lives and unlimited checkpoints to beat 16 levels. You can jump with A and place (depending on the mode) infinite checkpoints with B or X, though if the checkpoint gets killed by an obstacle, it disappears, and you're going back to the start of the level when you next die unless you place a new one. It's a neat little formula, and while I wish your hitbox was a bit more clearly defined (as there were many times I thought my little fella's legs made him wider than he was and I ended up falling to my death), but other than that, it's a well put together little thing. The graphics are simple but effective, and the music is jammin' too, so you've got a great atmosphere to do your platforming in, at the very least.

Verdict: Recommended. This is like a $3 game if you didn't already get it for free like me, and it's well worth your time if you like precision platformers like Meat Boy or such things. It's hardly a must play, sure, but it's a very well put together thing for what it is, and I understand this developer's other work to be similar in both genre and quality as well~.

It's interesting. I wish there was more context or story but I enjoyed it for its short runtime

An alright precise platformer. It manages to create some cool levels using very simple mechanics. It is pretty short though, is not really memorable. Good to kill an hour.

Fun game for an hour but the speed run goes hard

A pixel-precise platformer, there seems to be nothing special, except that the game has beautiful tracks.

Пиксельно-точный платформер, ничего вроде бы особенного нет, кроме того, что в игре присутствуют красивые треки.