Super Lovely Planet

Cute and colorful looks hide a pretty challenging platformer. As stated in the game's description, this is a very simple platformer. Your main character is a yellow ball with only one ability: to jump. It never tires, so it can string together jump after jump. You move through stages that unlock in a sequential order, although not all within the same level pack. For example, you could finish one stage and unlock the following one in another level pack, then finish the next one and unlock another stage in the first pack. The fact that levels are titled in the sequence in which they unlock creates some confusion. As a result, you will have stages out of order throughout all level packs. Although level packs have distinct names, such as “airport” and “hills”, they all take place in the same world and use the same assets. Each pack may include a new enemy or obstacle, but the visual style of the stages remains same. The objective also remains the same: all you have to do is jump and roll across platforms to reach the huge star at the end. Criteria for the grade received at the end is not explained. It appears like it is determined by your speed, the number of hits you receive, and…

A disappointing game. The biggest issue is the stiff, sluggish, herky-jerky movement of your character. Lovely Planet compels you to S-Rank challenges because the game feels good to play. And if you fail on a run you blame yourself. SLP feels bad to play, and when you fail a run you blame the awful character movement. All that could be excused - I've played worse hardcore platformers - but what's truly baffling are the unforced errors quicktequila make in the UI department. In Lovely Planet, after you finish a mission, you're told the S-rank time and whether you've killed all enemies. SLP does neither - why the hell does Tequila think I'm going to continually retry levels to hit S Rank when I don't even know what the par time is supposed to be? This decision killed any chance of finishing this game. Less obnoxious but equally as stupid is the level select - if you want to intersperse worlds through levels, that's fine, but make all levels sequential in the main menu.

Great platformer, aesthetics are on point and smooth lovely gameplay.

I had a considerably less lovely time than i expected, its lovely to finally complete it all though, solid 10/10, definitely play if you love simple precision platformer games

Super Lovely Planet is fairly unique, not quite like any other platformer I've played. It's a loose game, asking you to think quickly but without much consequence for failure. You can run through all the levels in a couple of hours, and you'll have some fun with that. Its depth comes getting an A rank on every level. The typical requirement is to beat each level without being hit, and after defeating every enemy. You can reach A rank in other ways, but the game isn't clear on how. Navigating each level without being hit transforms the loose and cute environment into a precision puzzle. You must act quickly and without error to get through. You will fail many times, but each one builds on your route through the course. It can be very frustrating, but it's also very rewarding. The game is flawed, however. It's very opaque with in its mechanics. As far as I can tell the game never tells you at any point that you can jump higher by pressing LT. I could be wrong, but I could not find a prompt anywhere. There's also no keybinds screen, so you can't even discover it that way. Your health is displayed as a little dot in the centre of your character. That's fairy easy to figure out, altho…

Controls are quite finicky. This game is for people who think dark souls is too easy.