What a wonderful little game. The music, atmosphere, humour, visual design, level design, it's just so...*cozy* and just made me happy to play and experience. The story, writing and dialogue has made me feel both happy and sad, and made me laugh. Overall just a great game that I'm thoroughly enjoying.

Sometimes I wish it was more difficult, the combat and puzzles are pretty straightforward and not mechanically complex. Coming off of Hades, this definitely feels very..."basic" in comparison, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing - it's just going for something different. It's simple, but it does simple well and it's strengths are by far what I listed above. If you want a hardcore gaming experience this may not be for you.

Edit: I beat the game at around 8.5 hours. I can tell there's definitely a lot of extra secrets that I could go back and explore the world again, so that could probably extend gametime a bit. I won't because my backlog is too big for that. Some may feel like the price doesn't reflect that kind of length, but this game was pretty quality all the way through.

My biggest complaint after looking at the whole thing, is that the bosses. They were cool and had great themes, but usually repeated the exact same 2, maybe 3 attack patterns over and over again which weren't all that difficult to read. The difficulty with them came usually at the extent of how many hits you had to land and sometimes felt very spongy - so sometimes I found myself getting a bit bored because I "got" the boss but had to sit through the same 2-3 attacks for a while before they were beat. I feel like I would have gotten all the bosses on the first attempt, but usually because of how spongy they were I got too greedy and would get punished and die. I wish I would die from having to learn the boss, as opposed to struggle with greed. The visual design and setpiecing of them though I feel makes up for that.

I feel overall after finishing that I can recommend those who want a cozy, zelda like explorative experience with great atmosphere and setpiecing. If you want a gaming challenge, this isn't it.

What a wonderful little game. The music, atmosphere, humour, visual design, level design, it's just so...*cozy* and just made me happy to play and experience. The story, writing and dialogue has made me feel both happy and sad, and made me laugh. Overall just a great game that I'm thoroughly enjoying. Sometimes I wish it was more difficult, the combat and puzzles are pretty straightforward and not mechanically complex. Coming off of Hades, this definitely feels very..."basic" in comparison, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing - it's just going for something different. It's simple, but it does simple well and it's strengths are by far what I listed above. If you want a hardcore gaming experience this may not be for you. Edit: I beat the game at around 8.5 hours. I can tell there's definitely a lot of extra secrets that I could go back and explore the world again, so that could probably extend gametime a bit. I won't because my backlog is too big for that. Some may feel like the price doesn't reflect that kind of length, but this game was pretty quality all the way through. My biggest complaint after looking at the whole thing, is that the bosses. They were cool and had great themes, but usually repeated the exact same 2, maybe 3 attack patterns over and over again which weren't all that difficult to read. The difficulty with them came usually at the extent of how many hits you had to land and sometimes felt very spongy - so sometimes I found myself getting a bit bored because I "got" the boss but had to sit through the same 2-3 attacks for a while before they were beat. I feel like I would have gotten all the bosses on the first attempt, but usually because of how spongy they were I got too greedy and would get punished and die. I wish I would die from having to learn the boss, as opposed to struggle with greed. The visual design and setpiecing of them though I feel makes up for that. I feel overall after finishing that I can recommend those who want a cozy, zelda like explorative experience with great atmosphere and setpiecing. If you want a gaming challenge, this isn't it.