The gameplay, while almost scratching the Celeste/precision-platforming itch, doesn’t feel very fluid. The character speed often made me feel hindered, while lacking game-feel and inconsistent hitboxes added friction on tip of it.

The platforming challenges themselves are quite well thought out and offer great progression of ideas, that end up converging to some more complex levels later on in the chapter.

The overall game loop pacing, though, has some problems. Some unnecessary story beats often stop the flow for longer than they should, especially since the main way of progressing your friendship with the other rabbits is by exhausting all the dialogue they have available at all times they appear. Considering they usually appear sequencially in a short span of time, these filler dialogues added greatly to the bloatedness of the game’s pacing.

I enjoyed the presentation, from hand-drawn graphics to the music. The story, where it isn’t excessive, is pretty interesting, and the gameplay, while problematic, has the engaging qualities of your usual precision-platformer. With that, Lapin, even if it had the potential to be quite better through some specific tweaks, was worth a playthrough.