Having Sky in the name is perfect because the main character is very floaty in his movements, but it feels very good to control! The platforming is perfect for the ways you can move around and it expands more with the power ups you unlock, this really is one of the more fun SNES platformers I've played so far.
The art direction is great, is so weird seeing a fantasy world inspired by Hindu aesthetics and mythos, and visually it looks beautiful, the spritework is very pretty, and I personally really liked the enemy design, the fantasious approach is very good, and the creative approaches in the design of the bosses is something I loved.
I really liked the power ups and you can use them in surprisingly creative ways in some places. This makes the game very easy sometimes but honestly I like when you're a bit overpowered in games, is fun as long as it's fair and this is a good example, with the most basic instance how you can sacrifice using a power up in exchange for health, how certain bosses become laughably easy with the correct attacj pattern, so on and so forth.
The only things that push this game down for me is that one, this game is ridiculously short, and if you knowwhere to go in the two labyrinth levels then you can basically finish this game in around two hours, there seems to be some hints that MAYBE there where plans for it to be even a bit longer, with stuff like the flying levels being so short and few.
The second problem I feel is some slight dificulty spikes, which I put in the category of "very easy but very stupid", you know the ones, where you can see that the mistake was on you but the game is made in such a way that making said mistake is also thanks to the way the game itself works. The prime example whpuld be the true final boss which literally consist of just two attack patterns but if you get hit you can die in one or two hits. This however happens very few times across the game.
Overall this is a very good package of a game that had the potential of being more, but is very nice just as it is anyways.
The art direction is great, is so weird seeing a fantasy world inspired by Hindu aesthetics and mythos, and visually it looks beautiful, the spritework is very pretty, and I personally really liked the enemy design, the fantasious approach is very good, and the creative approaches in the design of the bosses is something I loved.
I really liked the power ups and you can use them in surprisingly creative ways in some places. This makes the game very easy sometimes but honestly I like when you're a bit overpowered in games, is fun as long as it's fair and this is a good example, with the most basic instance how you can sacrifice using a power up in exchange for health, how certain bosses become laughably easy with the correct attacj pattern, so on and so forth.
The only things that push this game down for me is that one, this game is ridiculously short, and if you knowwhere to go in the two labyrinth levels then you can basically finish this game in around two hours, there seems to be some hints that MAYBE there where plans for it to be even a bit longer, with stuff like the flying levels being so short and few.
The second problem I feel is some slight dificulty spikes, which I put in the category of "very easy but very stupid", you know the ones, where you can see that the mistake was on you but the game is made in such a way that making said mistake is also thanks to the way the game itself works. The prime example whpuld be the true final boss which literally consist of just two attack patterns but if you get hit you can die in one or two hits. This however happens very few times across the game.
Overall this is a very good package of a game that had the potential of being more, but is very nice just as it is anyways.
Reviewed on Dec 05, 2022