reIterate()

one thing ive realized about myself is that im incredibly passionate about brutally challenging games even more than im dispassionate about grammar and punctuation, for a quick picture ive beaten Super Meat Boy multiple times 100%-ed all of The End Is Nigh up to Nevermore (for now) and the only games i seem to add to my libraries are notoriously hard ones Geometry Dash, Rain World, Spelunky, etc as a artist, programmer, and aspiring game designer, ive always taken note of what i love about my favorite games in the hopes that i could make something just as great one day so when i first found LTGD on yt, around 7 posts in, i was pretty interested to see someone else actually "live the dream" of making their own 2d platformer -a brutally realistic, not very dreamlike dream as it turned out but after that whole journey, i was invested enough to buy the final product i played the base game, then went back for all the collectibles, then beat all of black edition and after being flattered enough (the addage is a lie apparently) im here the game has good controls. good, as in they get the job done everything in them is rigid; holding jump wont make the protagonist jump higher, or fall slower and tapping jump to avoid ceiling hazards wont stop you from going full speed into them theres no nuance or variation in them at all, other than the natural acceleration of falling, if that even counts but the game isnt built around the controls, like super meat boy its built entirely around the obstacles and level design and believe it or not, that works, do it in the sequel if you like the rigidity gives the game a lot of identity in how it plays and suits both the main character and the world, intentional or not that said, the level design, being the only thing this game has other than narration wasnt as thoroughly explored as it couldve been big shock, i know, being a first-game and all but the game relies way too heavily at just throwing obstacles as the player which can be fun, but after playing for a while, i start to realize that most of what i'm doing is holding right, getting thrown around by spring pads, and pressing jump at the right time the spikes may move in a lot of different ways, but im going to rush past them all in the end and my ring finger is going to hurt from holding the right key theres no *flirtation* with death nothing to force me to dance around in a small area with a relentless enemy until a risky opening appears nothing making me sit and stare at a seemingly-impossible setup, until i realize the one simple trick that makes it easy, changing how i play the entire game going forwards (and when i go back to play it all over from the start) im not having to go back through the same area again and again with the ground disappearing each time, or new hazards being released with each switch i have to press to get out in other words theres pleanty of hazards but nothing designed to force me to stay and engage with them in different ways what the level design does do really well, is explore all the different synergies between different hazards the chaser changes everything when its introduced, and makes it so you cant wait around for different cycles to happen so naturally its paired, one by one, with every cycle-based hazard in the game pushing you out of your comfort zone and forcing you to find the ideal route to take without stopping for anything theres still some synergies i was disappointed never happened ...alright one synergy chasers, with different types of disappearing platforms blocking their line of sight to you temporarily there were only horizontal disappearing platforms used in-game though, so i understand how that couldve been impractical one interesting game mechanic is the ability to slow time being stubborn i ignored it for my entire first playthrough only opening up to it after the credits rolled and... ...its really great it did help me with frustrating moments, but i used it just as much, if not more, for playing things riskier weaving in and out between several projectiles and swinging spike bars, all pixels away from me i couldnt be expected to play like that at normal speed, but it opened a lot of new possibilities for me the artstyle is very memorable, and i wouldnt change it except for one thing its not readable during regular-speed gameplay i cant tell where one moving platform's path ends and another begins i still confuse portals with platform switches and i confuse every type of platform with every other type of platform i cant hold every different pattern in my head, definately not fast enough to react to them on the spot as a pretty hard dyspraxic that sucked for every platform in the game not-visible from the start, i had to touch every platform on my journey running right to discover what each one did some flung me into the ceiling, some dropped me in pits, some i wasnt sure if they were about to blip out of existence so i would panic and die some other way i understand that for the art style, you cant sacrifice the monochome/2-bit color theme, but consider changing the shapes of the platforms a bit more to make them more readable the springs can have rounded edges on the top, maybe a pixel or two taller to look spongier vanishing platforms can have dotted outlines you can even slap a quick accessibility mode that just makes the different objects different colors whatevers easiest for you i just cant be expected to tell the difference between these two, functionally completely-different platforms: https://imgur.com/a/NJRQCIh other than that the art style works surprisingly well, everything dangerous is covered in sharp, repeating angles, the solid ground of the levels have 3 white outlines, and the simplicity of the backgrounds made even small compositional changes very effective, especially towards the end of the game you may not be detail-oriented but you have a sense for composition, keep developing that! theres a lot i could say about black edition, but its all stuff you already know it was rushed uninspired because of what point the development was at you didnt have the time or energy to reinvent every level, only enough to add hazards on top yadda yadda yadda i hope you understand tho that since you have 138 levels in this game, everyones gonna expect at least 138 levels in the sequel, not sure how you should handle that but just a heads up that and, as interesting as the story was in white edition, black editions laid back, direct commentary was much more engaging to me, idk if it was more because i was a LTGD viewer, or because its such an interesting change of pace from the original story, but think about it final thoughts Reiterate(), even removed from LTGD, embodies the want to create games ive had since childhood aesthetically its a weird unintentional blend of one of my favorite flash games growing up, Exit Path, the first big platformer i made as a kid, and all the scratch.mit platfom games i played, with the floating text inside the levels themselves it wierdly scratches a very specific itch i didnt know i had, and for a first game, its well done just needs some polish, like saving your button remappings, and letting you select levels youve reached, not just levels youve beaten for a sequel, i would love to see the time controlling mechanic be explored more fully, and not just as an accessibility feature i mean the protagonist can control time, how cool is that itd be cool to have levels almost endlessly ramp up difficulty/the tight squeezes between projectiles you could make it so that everything moves slower, but you move a little less slow, so there gets to be a point where you can only do certain feats in slo mo, if you'd like to go that far if you did though youd have to invent an interesting way for players to want to exit slo mo occasionally tho its your game either way, and im interested in whatever your next project may be

This is the best game I have played since 1066.

The game doesn't predent to be more or less than a great than a good classic 2D platformer. The gameplay feel good and graphic are cool. Sometime level design is a bit messy and it can take a few try before understanding how to complete a level but it's really okay since you dying is part of learning. I also sometimes confused certain mechanics with each other but you learn the levels quick so it's not too much of a problem.

Çok aşırı farklı bir oyun değil. Bölümleri güzel ama aklınızda kalacak kadar mükemmel bölümleri yok. Kontroller güzel. Hikaye var, fena da değil. Genel olarak düz iyi bir oyun çok olağanüstü falan değil ama parasını hak eden kısa, eğlenceli bir oyun. Zorluğundan korkuyorsanız oyunda zamanı yavaşlatıp öyle oynayabiliyorsunuz. 7.5/10 Oyunda ana menüdeyken üstünde ? olan tuşa basarak hile konsolunu açabiliyorsunuz (klavyenin diline göre değişiyor, Türkçe klavyede böyle). Buraya şu hile kodlarını girebilirsiniz: [list] [*] EXPLODINGPEN - Ölümsüz yapıyor (Oyunu yeniden başlatınca düzeliyor) [*] GOTTAGOFAST - Speedrun modunu erkenden açmanızı sağlıyor [*] UNLESSYOULIVEHARDCORE - Black Edition yani oyunu bitirdikten sonra gelen ek bölümleri hemen açmanızı sağlıyor [*] NOTTHATIKNOWOF - Oyunda normalde bölümlerdeki anahtarları toplayıp açtığınız ekstra hikaye kısımlarının kilidini açıyor (Ana menüdeki devlogs kısmı) [/list]

A great platformer. A short one, but a great one. Controls are nice and responsive, level design is great (tho some black levels are pretty cheap). It took around 2.7 hours for 100% completion (all devlogs, all base levels, and all black levels) Well worth the price imo. Edit: Also how could I forget. The soundtrack is amazing. I'm a sucker for synth-wavy type songs and these are amazing.

this is a review XD and I wait for the sequel (with an editor and a world leaderboard ;)

A great experience... ReIterate() is if you took the inner core of platforming and made it into a game, brilliant movement and level mechanics/design. An engaging plot also, hooked me quite a bit. Banging music, probably my favourite part actually. Recommended 100% by me.

This is the first precision platformer I ever played, and I'm already hooked in the genre. The game is great, the gameplay amazing, the story interesting and the soundtrack is a blast! I also really enjoyed watching the dev logs from YouTube, Great stuff!

Let's make a negative review sandwich: - The creator of the game, is a gem of a person. - Controls could be tighter. It made the game feel harder than I couldn't tap my controller and make really small adjustments. I'm not saying the controls are floaty, but they could tighten up. - On falling platforms, I'd try to jump, hear the jump sound effect, but not jump. Not a big issue on most levels, but there's at least one where this was driving me crazy. - There's one level with four boxes in it. You jump straight up to and try to double jump, but just being close to the wall, you double jump. Kind of odd behavior. - Odd difficulty spikes. Level 40 was a second hardest level after level 69. - Game is too difficult for old people like me. - Guns don't also have to be spikes. You get used to it, but looking at guns you'd think you could jump on them. Could have been more creative there. - Issues where the joystick didn't work super well. I sometimes had to close the game and start it back up. - Saving issues where you might have to repeat a level. Not always a big deal, but it sucks if you get taken back to a hard level. That really only happened once. - The game has a slight delay when starting where you can't move. Games like Super Meatboy start you right in, and that is better for timing and all that. You kind of get use to it though. - Game was the proper length. If it were much longer, I probably wouldn't have finished. - Platforms felt good. The disappearing platforms give you that extra micro second after they disappear where you can still jump off of them and that was a very clever design. The bouncey platforms worked really well. I really liked all of them. - Game feels fair overall. Even though I've cried a bunch during this review, it mostly because I'm bad at games. The reaction times are really fast and you accelerate really fast toward, but it's fair. - Double jump feels really good. - Lots of times you can just run and jump. That's always fun. I prefer when it's possible to complete a level or a good part of it, with excellent timing while just running. - Game looks great. The graphics aren't technically sharp, but they work really well. - If the game looks like you'd like it, then you'll probably love it. - There's a slowmo button. I only ever pushed it accidentally, but it's nice that it's there for people who would use it. - The difficulty spikes inside of the level were pretty spot on. Level 69 and maybe one other are exceptions, but most of hardest bits, are early to mid level. The ends are hard too, just not as hard. - Lots of easy levels. It's nice to have the learning level. Making games is difficult and I appreciate the method the creator took. While the review looks harsh, it is still a positive review. I think it's the type of review this dev can hopefully appreciate even if he doesn't agree. I think the dev has a lot to be proud of. He made a good game.