I like it

el goblino from doors:exsists
pepl-pel:ima ruin this man's whole career

This was a bit of an odd duck. I think the game has a lot of potential as a cool momentum-based platformer akin to something like Fancy Pants Adventures, but unlike something like Fancy Pants Adventures where everything felt so immediately intuitive and smooth, this one felt incredibly restrictive and frustrating to get used to its movement.

I understand it's all about momentum and going fast and yes, once you're doing that it goes alright, but the game is just so unforgiving as when it comes to making minute adjustments or recovering from slight mistakes or shifting directions as it's either impossible or laborious. The game just has a constant feel like you're simultaneously covered in sticky glue while also sliding on ice, and also feeling like you're weighed down while simultaneously in zero-gravity: it's just bizarre and hard to describe!

Things that should be simple like jumping precisely from platform to platform from a standstill leave you either jumping straight up and not going forward at all, or leave you jumping forward and most likely over/under shooting it, and certain moves like the double jump almost feel like a punishment you want to avoid using because it hits the breaks on your momentum and leaves you floating like a fool.

Now, I don't want to write off the game completely, as what we have here might be a situation like Resident Evil with its tank controls, where while the controls might be frustratingly restrictive, it's all done for a grander purpose and the game is designed around its limitations.

But still, there were a lot of moves that I wanted to pull off that I couldn't figure out if it were possible (for example, I wanted to detach from a rope I'm sliding down on midway, but pressing down and jump has me jump up and off the rope, not let go and go down) and there were a lot of controls that I had difficulty with grasping, such as the way the game handles curved surfaces like half-pipes or loop-de-loops.

When it came to those curves, it seems like the game is trying to be generous in that you just keep pressing whatever your initial direction was, which was confusing because my natural instinct was to alter the direction I was moving based on where I was in the curve, but this caused me to fall off the curve. Furthermore, the game is also a bit too sticky/attached when it comes to curves: once I reached the top of the curve and wanted to dismount, I'd press a new direction, but my guy would stay attached to the curve and move backwards on it instead. Basically it's the same thing as before: even when I tried my best to get used to what the game wanted me to control like, it still just felt so stifling.

Basically yes, once I spent a considerable amount of time with the game to both get used to the controls and know the levels beforehand, I started to have fun, but before that was an incredibly frustrating learning process. To me, it feels like a case where the levels and controls might work perfectly in the developers mind since they are already familiar with it, but they might not have been constructed enough to teach and adapt to a layman's diverse set of potential impressions and expectations, and could maybe do with either a bit of loosening up to allow for the wiggle room of making mistakes, or have a better tutorial/onboarding process to get us used to its intricacies.

As a side note: I do like the zoomed-out camera since it allows us to see ahead, but I felt bummed out that it's so zoomed out that we can't see our cute character's animations and expressions at all!

Ok ok, esse jogo é algo.
A situação é a seguinte: esse jogo é fantástico!
Primeiro que ele é simplesmente lindo. Ter sido, pelo que eu entendi, feito a mão deixa isso ainda mais incrível.
As mecânicas e e jogabilidade estão no ponto ideal, não sendo chato e/ou difícil de entender. Assim como a dificuldade que está desafiadora o bastante sem ser injusto.
Inegavelmente isso me trouxe uma familiaridade com Rayman. Não sei se foi proposital.
Tenho que me conter e parar aqui, porque senão vou falar mais e mais coisas que adorei no projeto. Pode ter certeza que vou ir atrás dele na Steam e claro, trabalho excepcional!

I wanted to make an excessively thorough review was this wonderful demo. But then I realised that the game is already out on steam. Great game, I think that some design decisions aren't the best. But I understand them, if you are speeding through level none og them will apply. GGreat game