Well, I gave the demo a fair shot. But there are a lot of problems.
1. 6 of your buttons are to jump, and there's no dash or dive button. As such, your movement options are just jumping and walking around. Pretty limited for a 3D platformer.
2. You can only hold onto 3 costumes at the same time (from the demo), and you can apparently collect duplicates of the same costume. This can result in situations where you have duplicate costumes delete costumes that you actually need to progress in the level.
3. The background curves toward the player (sort of like Super Mario Galaxy), but it's actually all a linear world. This results in the background constantly bobbing up and down as you explore the environment, and can easily cause motion sickness.
4. Combat is kinda lackluster, due to the limited movement options (where you have to jump on enemies to defeat them) and the few costumes that have other attacks cannot jump because the one button action is linked to the attack rather than jump.
5. The game sort of works like a metroidvania where you will have to bring in other costumes from other levels to access all the collectibles. But as I've sort of implied from the above comments, you'll lose your costume immediately after taking a hit or falling off the stage. Thus, there's very little room for error when you're trying to bring in costumes from other stages to 100% a level (because you still need room for the costumes in the level that are required for navigation).
I hate to say it, because as nice as the visuals and background music are, this might be the worst 3D platformer that I've ever played. The movement just feels so sluggish and the gameplay feels like it's lacking a lot of quality of life features. Really disappointed, and I would not buy this on sale unless it got major improvements.
1. 6 of your buttons are to jump, and there's no dash or dive button. As such, your movement options are just jumping and walking around. Pretty limited for a 3D platformer.
2. You can only hold onto 3 costumes at the same time (from the demo), and you can apparently collect duplicates of the same costume. This can result in situations where you have duplicate costumes delete costumes that you actually need to progress in the level.
3. The background curves toward the player (sort of like Super Mario Galaxy), but it's actually all a linear world. This results in the background constantly bobbing up and down as you explore the environment, and can easily cause motion sickness.
4. Combat is kinda lackluster, due to the limited movement options (where you have to jump on enemies to defeat them) and the few costumes that have other attacks cannot jump because the one button action is linked to the attack rather than jump.
5. The game sort of works like a metroidvania where you will have to bring in other costumes from other levels to access all the collectibles. But as I've sort of implied from the above comments, you'll lose your costume immediately after taking a hit or falling off the stage. Thus, there's very little room for error when you're trying to bring in costumes from other stages to 100% a level (because you still need room for the costumes in the level that are required for navigation).
I hate to say it, because as nice as the visuals and background music are, this might be the worst 3D platformer that I've ever played. The movement just feels so sluggish and the gameplay feels like it's lacking a lot of quality of life features. Really disappointed, and I would not buy this on sale unless it got major improvements.