It could be a fine cinematic platformer puzzler, although it is having a hard time getting out of that 'fine' zone.
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Visually, great effort evidently went into the beautiful backgrounds, the paint-like textures and the great shaders that animate all of this. Models and character animations are also pretty solid. I'd say my only gripe here is, despite the obvious artistic and technical talent on display, the world, character and enemy designs are not super unique. Or at the very least not unique enough to elevate the rest of the game. And so is the no word side scrolling story telling...
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It is mostly a puzzle platformer, with the presentation and controls of a cinematic one. And though I tend to be super gracious with that kind of gameplay, here I feel like the controls get in the way of puzzle resolution too often to be justifiable.
As always, maybe it’s just skill issue. But I found myself more often than I wished kind of stuck on some puzzles, not because I didn't know what to do but because I found the controls to slow to execute on what was asked. Now most puzzles don’t really present any real challenge; at worst you'll restart very quickly, and it’s rare that speed is a factor.
But the puzzles that ask you to escape an enemy, using you cat as a distraction...these are just a pain. Basically these puzzles are about placing you companion as bate, then trying to time an espace when the enemy starts running to them. But if either the kid or the cat get caught, it’s instant death and you have to start the set up from the start.
They range from painfully slow, where you wait for seconds at the time for the enemy to be in the right position, to just plain frustrating when you control like og Prince Of Persia, taking a decade to climb a platform, and your robot opp is jumping around with speed and accuracy of an italian plumber.
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TL;DR
I personally didn’t enjoy it. If it had been less annoying to play with any robot encounter, I'd have give it a reluctant recommandation, for an inoffensive puzzler platformer. But as is, there was enough friction in the gameplay that it just irritated me.
