Sayonara Umihara Kawase

I just went through the whole trilogy. In terms of enjoyment, I would rank them as such: Original > Shun >>>> Sayonara, but then again, maybe I'm just having a Kawase overdose. So Sayonara is ok, still fun enough I suppose, but worse than the rest of the trilogy in my opinion. -the ugly and confusing 3D decor is back, with a bit more variety than in Shun at least. The sprites are all gone, making the rest of the game uglier too. -monster variety is at its lowest, but, at least, compared to Shun, your rope can't go through a fish's legs, which saved me from further frustration. In general you encounter fewer enemies during stages and the respawn mechanic has mostly been removed. -it's hard to fault the soundtrack since even if I don't like the original tracks as much as that of the two previous games, you can actually choose to switch to the other games' bgm. -you have multiple characters to choose from, but they all play the same except for the fact that two can respawn at checkpoints during levels (thus being a sort of easy mode) and one can move during time stop. -which brings me to the time stop mechanic. I didn't use it at all, so I'm not sure if it's useful or not. -like in Shun, there's a big visibility problem with the peeking buttons still not coming back. You often have to make leaps of faiths and hope for the best. -it takes a while to adapt to the new rope handling coming from Shun. I think it was the least satisfying game of the series in that aspect -the game feels much more casual than the previous two, even when playing in survival mode rather than stage-by-stage. There are only a couple of slightly challenging stages here and there. The hardest levels are probably a bit harder than the hardest ones from the original, but the rest is much easier. The lack of challenge makes it the shortest one too, despite a slightly higher stage count than the original. Special mention to the background in some levels that actually managed to hurt my eyes. And I don't mean that they're ugly. I don't know if it's the excessive parallax, the bright colours or the ever-evolving 3D geometry, but something in them made me physically unwell.

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So I decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

It can get devilishly difficult, but the movement just feels so good. This one lets you make progress in unlocking new stages by clearing them one at a time, and you can test your mettle with traditional full runs from start to finish once you get used to the individual stages All the games in the trilogy are so pleasant to play once you get a hang of the mechanics

A trilha sonora desse jogo faz eu me sentir um jovem que trabalha no interior do Japão plantando arroz. ps: jogar isso no vr é estranhamente divertido

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It maintains the main premise of the other two games while being the most toned down in terms of difficulty. As for additional mechanics, we now have different characters with distinct power-ups that we can use to aid in the journey. Moreover, the limited lives only exist in Survival Mode, and you get a checkpoint every stage you manage to clear. There are also some miscellaneous features, such as galleries with character profiles and artworks. Pretty cute stuff.