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A really solid platformer, the movement feels great! The "gimmick" of each world is always fun! The story is also pretty decent too if you read up on it, but its not necessary! Something I notice with this store page that this game is tagged as cozy, which I would have to disagree! As cute as this game is, it is a hard platformer that I would not recommend to someone who is expecting a chill easy game! Something I can see frustrating with some players is that this game likes to trick with an almost impossible platformer path, where the real solution is to cheese the stage. You know its a cheese stage when a helper character will show up after some deaths to tell you to think a little harder how to get past this section! On my first run it took a little over 3 hours to 100% , played perfectly fine on Steam deck with no issues!

While I liked the concept, the execution was a bit lacking. Most of the interaction with the windows was clicking to change the tab or active window. Sometimes, you could move them. Thats pretty much it, the rest is standard platformer stuff (i.e. changing gravity, boost pads, etc.). Moving the windows was nice. In one of the bonus levels you move the platform while standing, then jump, move it while midair, and land again, which was fun. I would have loved to see more unique interactions with the system. But my biggest problem was the developers aversion to difficulty. Many of the levels have an intended easy path, and a "fake" hard path. Imagine a column upwards where you can get inside and climb up with some obstacles in the middle. You could also just scale the column from the outside. This is, in my opinion, just plain stupid. It takes time for an essentially trivial level. And when you *dare* try to make it interesting yourself by taking the hard path on purpose, you get the most annoying forced cutscene with an NPC which essentially says "Hey idiot, there's an easy path, go do that one :)". This not only feels condescending, but you also loose control during it, meaning you're losing time. So taking the harder path is discouraged further. Why not have the hard path be the faster one? Doesnt it make much more sense to reward a player for engaging with the level more, instead of essentially skipping it? This was frustrating me the entire time while playing... The game has needless, easily skipped sections, then slows you down when you try to actually play the game instead of skipping it. I cant for the life of me figure out why. Full price for this game is also quite high. I beat the game 100% in around 4h, including a second run for some achievements. For the 5€ I spent on sale I guess its fine, but no chance its worth full price. If someone wants a random platforming game to spend the time, this will do, but there's just so many better options that I can't really recommend it.

Non mi è piaciuto.

I had a lot of fun with this game, but there were some things that I found a little disappointing. First off, I gotta mention how amazing the music was throughout every moment of the game. Bravo to the composer(s)! The artstyle in general was very neat as well, making cold computer components into cute little little creatures was a huge success. Now, for the meat and potatoes of the game... the platforming, while often times fun and challenging, it could also be a little too easy at times. As others have mentioned, some of the most difficult platforming sections are designed to be cheesed by going around the obstacles instead of through them. This happened a lot more than was expected and was a pretty big letdown. I don't even know if most of these sections were able to be beaten by going through them, and as somebody who plays a ton of precision platforming games, this definitely felt like cheating. The game is definitely not easy though, and I am sure getting the deathless achievement takes a lot of practice. I was also not a fan of that penguin popping up whenever you are trying to get through a tough section, saying things that are irrelevant like "try thinking about it another way", when I am just trying to get passed a normal part. It almost feels like the game is mocking you for failing too much and besides a few parts where you probably need to take the cheese path, it gets super annoying. All in all, the game had good controls, creative level design, and an interesting theme to it. It often goes on sale for pretty cheap and at that price, it is 100% worth the money.

Great short little platformer.

Jogo com ótimo design e boa criatividade

It's simple fun as it has quite a few neat ideas and doesn't overstay it's welcome. Pick it up on sale!