Garlic

Garlic is a really fun platformer with charming graphics and goofy animation, really great music, and a fun and unique movement system It also oozes character and charm, with the minigames and cutscenes all keeping me engaged and entertained throughout. Loved it All that being said, I have a good number of problems with it... The first issue I have is the level and enemy design; While the movement mechanics are great, it feels like most of the levels aren't designed with them in mind, and the enemies especially are there to what feels like discourage creative movement. There's key moments in this game where it all clicks together and you have this perfect string and you're in a flow state only for 1 enemy or cheap trap at the very end of the segment to trip you up. Feels bad when most of the game you're fighting this issue. The 2nd problem might be a bit of a weird one; This game, is too long. While I appreciate it from a dollar to value standpoint (seriously this game is a steal), The quality of the worlds feels like it peters out after world 8. Where it then feels like it went from thoughtful, creative design that uses the enemies/traps designed for the worlds theme well. To, throwing a random color palette for the level theme and just throw whatever in the level itself. It's a very jarring shift and I noticed it almost instantly. I feel like if the game ended after world 8, I would've been just as if not more satisfied with the game as a whole. And lastly, the bosses are all pretty bad... They're all either slug fests I win in 5 seconds, bosses I have to RUN from even though they all LOOK like I can hit them, and the final boss. Which is it's own flavor of awful, with it being super inconsistent with how it sparatically moves around the room and hovers over you when you're in the i-frames period. Overall though I hope my issues being more detailed than my praise doesn't dissuade you from checking it out. It truly is a great game and a bang for your buck. I just recommend stopping at world 8 and consider yourself a winner there. It's what I'll be doing every time I go back to this game.