Symphonia

The art direction and soundtrack in this game are fantastic. The world is stunning and sounds beautiful. Most of the platforming challenges are pretty fun! Unfortunately, I have a few gripes that make me not want to recommend this game. For a $30 game, the gameplay is ridiculously unpolished, and the level design does leave something to be desired. The control scheme is pretty unintuitive and takes a while to get used to. There are also loads of little things that make the movement feel very clunky and unresponsive. For example, just jumping back to back can randomly kill all of your speed. The wall jump is a set distance every time and is almost impossible to recover from if done by accident; the crouch is ridiculously slow, etc. On top of the clunky movement, mechanics in this game outright broke and stopped working as intended for me on multiple occasions. The grappling hook is by far the biggest offender (it literally just stopped grappling me). I also managed to soft-lock the game (clipping out of the map, textboxes stuck on screens, etc.) on 7 separate occasions (by accident) in the final section of the game, and the only way to fix it was to quit out of the game and …

The ending is really bad. I beat three of the chasing levels. In the fourth I just went out of patience. It has however very beautiful graphics.

I purchased this on sale it was under ten dollars and I'm really glad i did. The game can be completed in under ten hours but as you go you unlock different traversal cheats to make playing again seen more interesting. I will say when you first start you will absolutely find the controls to feel a bit backwards I actually changed them but then had to change them back again when i unlocked my next ability so just stick with it and it will feel normally pretty quickly. Some of the areas can be challenging in a good way and if you happen to die you normally are put right back to the beginning of the challenging part so that's really nice. The game itself is beautiful and of course the sound goes perfectly with it, I loved the art style. If you like precision platforming absolutely get this game -- but because its short get it while its on sale ;-)

An almost-seamless blend of concert orchestration and platforming. Props to the devs for their design decisions in the movement. Not my favourite style, but very well executed. Super enjoyable game.

music and game was very pretty and the world felt very lived in. fun little violin platforming mechanics.

This game was quite enjoyable overall. Had some off sections and some issues(like momentum behaving weirdly at time) but artstyle, music and the more fun sections it had carry the game to an enjoyable experience. I also liked the movement abilities and stage platforming design of most areas(Except the 2nd which I didn't really like)