Enough interesting game-likers I follow love this game that I decided to give it a shot, and uh...eh. I like the look of it, and I love the jaunty "let's go on an adventure" vibe it has. It feels like a game made to be binged when you're 13 years old and awake early on a Saturday morning. If I'd played it back in the mid-90s I might've loved it. But I just don't like playing it in 2020--the controls feel sticky (and it's borderline unplayable with the Switch joycons; I had to buy a HORI Split Pad Pro just to get a functional D-pad), and its attempt at creating a three-dimensional space with 2D graphics, while ambitious and commendable, doesn't really work. Way too many platforming puzzles are reliant on figuring out through trial and error where exactly a platform is in relation to you, and while that might be fun for some people it is emphatically not for me. And while I like that the dungeons don't require anything of you that you aren't given at the start of the game, the dungeon design feels extremely messy and occasionally borderline thoughtless. I dunno. It's a cool thing that isn't much fun to play.

Reviewed on Oct 11, 2020


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