Hirogami

just a nice short hero adventure, story is tight and wonderful I really liked all the forms, even though frog form is BUSTED lol (good all the time)

Y'know, I liked it, but I think this is one time where I get the low reviews. It released on the same day as Silksong. I applaud the bravery, but a delay probably would have helped the game, especially if they ran a public closed playtest just to iron out some of the collectathon hurdles that people have with the game. Same issue Tembo the Badass Elephant had, which is kind of a completely different platformer, but weirdly the same flaw! Oh yeah also the story makes approximately half of a lick of sense.

There is no other way to say this but this was a bad game. Poorly designed game. A miserable gaming experience. Which is unfortunate because I really wanted to like this game. I was excited to play it at first then the more i played the more apparent it became this was a terribly designed. Awful platforming, questionable level design, a fixed camera that made me want to pull my hair out, and combat that was so atrocious combat that was NOT needed or warranted. The list of complaints and nick picks goes on. I'm sorry but this was a pain to play and by the end i didn't want play anymore I didn't care about it at all. The only redeeming aspect left is the transformation system which feels like it the part of the game that was well made. The fluid swapping between the different animal forms and the variety of uses of those forms throughout the game was good but sometimes I questioned the need or point of the humanoid form. I don't know. I don't care anymore.

I was drawn in by the art style and am usually a fan of 3D platformers, especially ones that allow me to turn my brain off. Hirogami falls a bit flat in a few areas, most importantly the stiff mechanics and physics. There were a handful of situations where long animation sequences or button hold sequences didn't leave room to avoid attacks in the letter levels and the final boss. The jump height for some of the folds felt intentionally short leading to edge slips a lot. Three camera angles were a nice cinematic touch but in many cases a combination of the camera position and the ability to move in 3D caused mis-jumps or running into boundaries while moving through sequences that require you to move quickly through a section. To give credit, the various folks mechanics are well balanced and the platforming puzzles require each of them equally, which was nice and kept the level progression interesting. The levels are incredibly linear with very little in the way of exploration. I was able to finish all 18 levels in 4.5 hours, so it's a very short experience from level to level but it didn't feel too short. I don't want to knock it too hard because it was a perfectly playable ga…

It's a nice platformer but it lacks ultrawide support!

Really cool platforming game. Liked a lot the origami style