Superflight is almost perfect. The simplicity of the controls, only one joystick. The feeling of threading the needle and racking up points. Circling a mountain looking for a portal, entering a new level and immediately seeing something, somewhere, and think "yeah, that's where I'm going". The sound design, the mood, everything about the way this game feels when you play it is excellent.

Literally the only flaw is an obvious side effect of the game's procedural generation; while I'm near certain that some amount of the environment is made of prefabricated shapes, sometimes you'll see a gap, a space that beckons you to fly through it, only to find yourself flying face first into a dead end. This instills perhaps a greater degree of caution than what I think is intended, though perhaps without handcrafting a ludicrous number of cliffs, caves, and spires, there isn't really a good practical solution.

Reviewed on Mar 19, 2021


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