This game made my fingers feel like a pretzel. It feels like a modern-day rendition of QWOP, but this time with lush environments, an extremely catchy soundtrack by David Wise, and an adorable cartoon snake.

The game's main draw is its unorthodox control scheme, and how the levels are built around being a snake. All of the levels are inventive in their own way, and all have a smattering of collectibles to find along the way. Unfortunately, many of the later stages really felt like they began to overstay their welcome, and there's only 15 levels on top of that, so the game is simultaneously too short AND exhausting to play.

I'd say this game is still worth a shot, but I can tell it won't click with a lot of people. I still enjoyed myself though.

Cute "platform" game. Very interesting movement mechanics (you can't jump at all and you have to move just like a snake does). Reminds me of N64-era Rare games, both in terms of design and visuals. Definitively not as difficult as some reviews out there claim, the game just doesn't hold your hand.
If you are remotely interested in snakes and games with the charm of early 3D platformers (with modern sensibilities), it's definitely worth playing.

Jogo de plataforma bonitinho. Mecânicas de movimento muito interessantes (você não consegue pular e você precisa se mover da mesma forma que uma cobra). Lembra os jogos da Rare da época do Nintendo 64, tanto em termos de design quanto de visual. Definitivamente não é tão difícil quanto algumas resenhas por aí afirmam, o jogo simplesmente não segura sua mão.
Se você é remotamente interessado em cobras e jogos com o charme de plataformers 3D iniciais (com sensibilidades modernas), definitivamente vale a pena jogar.

A platformer without jumping sounds like a painfully quirky concept, but Snake Pass actually pulls it off. Skillfully navigating an environment with the limited toolset of a snake provides for compelling gameplay, and you'll find yourself strangling your controller as you try to maintain your grip on each ledge. There's also a surprising amount of nuance to basic movement, and learning ways to efficiently navigate is an oddly rewarding experience. That's about the only string to the game's bow though, for better and worse. It's nicely focused, but if it starts frustrating you, there's nothing else to keep you playing. If the uniqueness of it all catches your eye then it won't disappoint, but you're not missing much otherwise.

Cool concept, the art style and music are great, but it gets very frustrating very fast. The game is too punishing when you die, removing all of the collectibles you've gotten since the last checkpoint, most of which feel very repetitive and pointless to re-collect. The checkpoint system as a whole feels outdated, and would've been improved using something like Celeste where as soon as you're on safe ground the collectible is saved. The difficulty continues to increase and the main objectives of the levels start to be pretty challenging later in the 2nd world, and that's around where I stopped. I feel like most of my deaths were due to the controls not doing what I was trying to do, when I knew exactly what I had to do to in that spot, which is very frustrating. Unfortunate, as it's a neat game and I really wanted to like it.

Positives:

- Interesting innovation on the Platforming genre that controls well.
- Very characteristic and a beautiful game all around.
- There are enough checkpoints to reduce the frustration from failure.

Negatives:
- The novelty wears off too quickly, with little changes made to keep it appealing.
- Levels become very, very long and just drag on as a result.
- Minor camera issues.

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Snake Pass is an incredibly tough game for me to review because I am very mixed on it. On one hand I want to recommend it for the innovation it brought to the genre, and on the other hand, I want it to stay the hell away from me. That is a slight overexaggeration of course, but it's not too far from the truth. But let me begin by going into detail on what I like about Snake Pass.

Snake Pass is a charming platformer where one key feature is missing: jumping. Instead, you're a snake who gets higher up the stage by wriggling and coiling around wooden poles. Noodle is a long snake, so it is important that his entire body makes the movement to push him forward. This results in a physics-based game, and I can say that the controls are pretty good. The camera can sometimes be a hindrance though, but it happened only a select amount of times for me. Of course, it still revolves around physics which usually leads to frustration, and Snake Pass is no exception to that. The game gradually becomes harder, and deaths are becoming more and more frequent. Fortunately checkpoints are usually nearby more difficult sections so the reset is pretty much imminent.

But me throwing my controller through the room out of frustration is not the reason I partially dislike this game. That reason is simply because the novelty wears off really quickly. Pole climbing is the entire game, and it barely ever changes from that. Sure, it becomes more difficult, but a lot of it is still pole climbing. The only changes to the gameplay are some switches to use and a few stage hazards, and that's it. Is that an issue when the pole climbing itself is good? Not necessarily, but the levels themselves really begin to drag on the further into the game you are. They become very long, frustrating, and just very sameish. While the first few levels were all very fun because this idea was fresh and new, the later levels just weren't fun to go through. And we are talking about 3 to 4 hours of content here, not necessarily including completion. And besides, Noodle is just a very slow character to control, even when constantly wriggling to increase speed. If the gameplay evolved then I probably would have liked this game a lot more, but now? I can recommend it for two hours and that's it. But recommending a 20 euro game for 2 hours doesn't exactly sound ideal so I hate to say it but I'm sorry. I would love to recommend this for the concept alone, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend people to go out and buy it.