fundamentally this is a pikmin spiritual something but i have no idea if thats true because ive never played pikmin sooo

this game is fun like really fun like really really fun i dont usually play collectathon platformers because they end up being v boring or something like that (i actually played a lot of them im just lying here) but this is just incredible

i dont have a story tab here so i will tell you what i remember about this ok so youre an astronaut or something from a planet where humanity is very tiny for some reasons unbeknownst to you (the truth is behind a generic twist) and so you just journey through the mysterious land of whatever the fuck (basically a big ass house) to discover what are the real roots of humans and to do that you will use the helping hands of cute and adorable tinykins which are umh ? animals what do you categorise them as anyway conscient beings of some sorts that have different colors for each purpose they fulfill (carrying stuff making ladder making stairs yes these 2 are very different conducting electricity and EXPLODING maybe i shouldnt have spoiled their abilities to you ok RETROSPECTIVE SPOILER WARNING)

anyway you roam in this house populated by every type of bug in existence and you can talk to them and get a look into their society and tribe conflicts or whatever i actually got really tired at one point and just skipped the dialogues im so sorry i failed you i just have ADHD NPCs arent for me

that being said they talk about a god and that hes like all knowing and will bestow them safety and prosperity or something and in reality PROSPECTIVE SPOILER WARNING is prospective the antonym of retrospective anyway thats actually a scientist (?) who is also the owner of the house who got like a lot of humans shrunk and its like omg im atoning for my sinssssss or whatever the end of the game

now the meat of the game........... the gameplay . guys the gameplay is so good oh my god moving around each room is so fun its like my trust in platformers came suddenly back and its thriving like i loved just fucking around and getting the collectibles and the tinykins and doing the quests its just such a chill game i love it a lot

theres no combat apparently so you literally scratch your balls during the whole game and its so fun

quests arent that interesting but i didnt mind theyre like ok go get object A to point B using in the meantime tinykins X Y Z the end and honestly its perfect for the kind of game this is

latest levels dragged a bit for me but i feel like each of them is characterised by so much stuff and constructed in a way that they never feel too overwhelming or too bare and because theyre literally rooms in a house but youre a tiny ass guy they just feel like uncharted lands brimming of treasures to discover and then its like a toilet brush

umh i think i finished the things to say OMG NO ACTUALLY THE ANIMATION IN HERE ???????? WHAT THE FUCK its just soososososos good really the intro the ending and the little animations where you encounter a new tinykin type are so good yknow its just an animation style so fluid and fresh UGHHH and it clearly carries over to the actual gameplay because every single character is animated in a sort of umh 2.5d fashion ? kinda ? i dont know what im saying

music is fine its nice idk its clearly composed to be background music while you slide on silk threads sooooo yeah

nice game single handedly killed and buried the pikmin series forever

also why do so many bugs want to get married whats happening in here

red tinykins my beloved

bugs are right milo does have weird as fuck hair and also why is he called like the atlantis guy and also looks like him