Princess of the Water Lilies

This is a beautiful little game with a punishing challenge level if you want it. The characters and animations are charming and will definitely have me replaying it.

Fun game but do not let the cute visuals fool you. It starts off feeling easy then slowly ramps up until some parts become genuinely challenging. That difficulty jump caught me off guard in a good way. I really love the art style. Everything looks illustrated with a lot of care and personality. The background music and sound effects are also great and do an excellent job of keeping you engaged while playing. I am not a fast gamer, it took me about 5 hours to finish the game, which felt just right. It is charming, tough when it needs to be and very satisfying to complete.

It's a really good game! The artwork, music and sound effects are gorgeous. The characters are so cute. (I particularly loved the ragdoll kitten character model and the underwater purr sound effect). The backgrounds and animations are very detailed and well-designed. Most importantly, my daughter (7) who loves cats, has adored the game. Information about this game is hard to find (It appears to be criminally underrated). A couple notes: It's a platformer with tight controls. You play a cat whose only power is to magically purr, which activates scenery effects and befriends enemies. I didn't experience any bugs in my 2 playthroughs. There are 5 stages. Each stage has some light/casual platforming and puzzle elements, followed by a boss. On the regular (cat) difficulty, the levels are medium/light difficulty, but the bosses are a sudden difficulty spike and are a bullet hell at end-game Hollow Knight difficulty. I found the hardest boss to be the first (camel) boss. One hit and you start over at the previous sequence. The majority of my play time (5-7 hours) was on the bosses. Despite the cartoonish appearance, the regular (cat) difficulty bosses were very, very tough. (On par …

Cute little puzzle-platformer with good escalation in application of its mechanics. Only had some issues with seemingly no coyote time in addition to what feels like per-pixel collision detection giving edges and slopes a very slippery feeling.

This game is really nice and challenging. I’m not sure how a kid would beat it. When the cat dies in the game, it makes a very realistic cat sound. My two cats actually started searching around the house trying to find where the sound was coming from.

Thought it’d be a chill cozy title, but the level difficulty really caught me off guard ~ in the best way.