Super Cable Boy

Really good game. Starts out easy, but the challenge increases a lot with each new world and the new abilities you unlock help keep each world unique. I'm honestly surprised by how obscure this game is considering how well made it is.

Such a great/simple Platformer. The artstyle is nice and it feels good to play. Can recommend !

Gets a slow start, but builds into a shorter, less polished Celeste. A very unique aesthetic and it knows it and leans into it, but some of the references might be hard to get without a programming background. The things I wish were more polished: 1. In the advanced levels, the control stick is frustrating because it doesn't snap to a direction. For example midair dashing exactly horizontally through dangers above and below might kill you for being a couple of degrees off. You can use the d-pad to get an exact direction, but the game chains together moves that you'll want the control stick for, and swapping mid-movement isn't fun. 2. There are a lot of casual difficulty levels and a lot of absolutely insane difficulty levels but not much between, so it can sometimes feel like you missed some intermediate levels to train you on an advanced practice that suddenly becomes required to have mastered. (Or if there is such training, the game doesn't guide you to it well enough--after beating the base game, the map forks off from so many locations it's unclear which ones to do.) 3. You unlock four core abilities (think dash, grapple, etc.) but you don't have them equipped at once; you switch between them like Megaman. This isn't inherently bad, but there's a missed opportunity for this to be a skill the player can master. Instead, every section has a clear mode you're supposed to be in, and switching feels like a chore; the mode switch pauses the game and takes 3-5s to find the mode you want. Some triggers you pass through force-activate specific modes which is fun when they are chained together, but it feels a bit overprescribed and robs your autonomy a bit. Overall a fun experience and I played through the base game, but when it came time for the advanced parts, mastery of the game wasn't fun enough to continue. I say this having completed all B-sides in Celeste, so not immune to a challenge.