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unfortunately this is a platforming game where you never feel like you're controlling a character in a world. feels unfinished, will have to try the sequel and hope for better.

Was going to go for 100% completion but this one stage has been giving me its hands for over an hour and I was just sitting at the screen going "am I enjoying this challenge or should I just stop playing?"

Anyway other than that quandary I solved, Cloudbuilt is a deceptively competent 3D platformer. Deceptively, in that its initial difficulty gives you such a ridiculous sandbox to exploit to where the base mechanics aren't being tested but by the time you're jumping between challenge maps you're losing your MIND. This is not even mentioning the outright ridiculous amount of tech, of which I can pull off barely a third of. There's so much and it's so crazy to wrap your head around that when I say "barely a third of" I mean "I pulled off the technique but oh hey i'm falling to my death."

The aesthetic and music is also rather nice, although you're better off probably skipping the whole story. It has a cute late 00s edge to it but it doesn't go anywhere that's really worth considering. It's a complete gameplay master work and if you want to throw your head at comprehending all this movement and playing by the skin of your teeth on these scattered cloudscape structures then I absolutely recommend this.

A good fast-paced platformer. It's nice to see ongoing support, new levels added and revamped, and a lot of built-in features like a map editor, leaderboards and modifiers. The movement is generally fast (though you can also take it slow) but not as smooth as I would've liked, because some actions are context-sensitive or done automatically, like grabbing ledges and the same button being used for dashing and boosting along a wall, which has a slight delay when switching between those actions (or possibly, a skill issue on my side). Still overall pretty enjoyable with large levels, multiple routes and lots of new ideas. From here, I'd recommend playing DeadCore (my beloved) and Valley (if you want more story).

It's fiiiiiiiiiine. Honestly just a lot more frustrating than bad at all.

Controls were really clunky and just not fun to play with.

i fail to be able to describe this as "super"