it was fun at start , mid game gets boring.

A game that starts fun but is very quickly tainted by snarky "meta" writing and purposefully obtuse level design. Lame :/

Awesome game. Buy it.

Very fun 2D platformer. Amazing art. Very well priced for the amount of content it delivers. The shopkeeper is the best!

This was an interesting game.

I really enjoyed the story and the concept. Having played a few platforming games in the past years, I was pleasantly surprised by Messenger. It’s similar enough to other games to be very intuitive to play but still unique enough to be fun, surprising, and novel. I especially appreciate that halfway through the game we change gears a bit and the game makes you do things differently than before.

Overall, Messenger wasn’t a difficult game to play. As per usual with these games, the platforming is more challenging to me than the boss fights. (I think there is something wrong with my brain LUL). I’m not good at games a lot but for the most part, there wasn’t enough I majorly struggled with. Until we get towards the end of the game. The final two bits, again, of the platforming part of the game almost drove me insane. Partially it was my fault because I should have just stepped away to finish things another day, but I was pretty close to the end (or so I thought) so I really wanted to keep going and complete the game that day. Well, it almost did my head and legit made me angry. The thing is, when I made it to the final boss, I think it took me two tries to beat it. Really it was the platforming there that challenged me. And I just really wasn’t expecting that increase in difficulty because the entire game before that wasn’t so hard. It just felt like a big jump up in difficulty for me. But maybe that’s just me with my non-existing platforming skills.

I will also say that at times the game confused me with where it wanted me to go and with what it wanted me to do. I get that some things are left vague on purpose you need to figure them out but once you don’t move above quite so linearly, I ended up lost a few times. Not because of difficulty but because I hadn’t picked up on some detail that would tell me what I needed to find or rather where to find that and what to do with it.

Anyway, I wouldn’t necessarily consider any of this real criticism. Other than maybe the jump in difficulty which is just something I would have liked to know about beforehand, just so I can mentally prepare, I liked pretty much everything about this game. I had a lot of fun playing Messenger, the music is lovely, and I especially love the style of the game. Great times were had playing this.

pretty simple platformer cool graphics and fun yet simple story if u want to start a platform game for begginers its for u

Yes yes an yes loved it so much I played it all on the switch and then on Steam so worth it.
Great plaftormer and great music. Love the shopkeeper.
Good luck with the 5 win in a row for the hardest achievement was such a pain but I did it!

Hands down best platformer
own the game on 4 different platforms
probably my favorite game of all time

11/10 almost perfect

The messenger is quite similar to the original shovel knight, just refined in a lot of ways. But considering just how frustrating shovel knight is, it takes a lot more than just refining in order to not want me to tear out my hair in some sections. Overall though, it's still a really neat game that I'd very much recommend. It's got very cool and creative platforming, hands down some of the funniest dialogue in any video game I've ever read, and even a couple cool surprises along the way :)

Just do be aware of the very occasional ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and jank, and maybe pick it up in a sale if you're stingy with money (like me). Also, be aware that the game's story does end off on a cliffhanger sadly, but the conclusion is still satisfying nonetheless