Incredible Mandy

Incredible Mandy has a nice visual style, nice effects, and good gameplay basics, but ultimately lacks polish in multiple areas that would make it consistently fun. [i]Positives are marked with +, neutrals with *, and negatives with -.[/i] + Nice visual style + Nice visual effects * Very basic/bare-bone level design - Sluggish, slow character controls, basically no air control - Some bad level design choices and issues (being able to get stuck if you don't trickjump around barrier, unclear paths, unnecessary falling of the edge) - Aiming with mouse is not consistent, possibly buggy when trying to aim far up - The tutorial text boxes spoil puzzles - Sometimes tedious to execute puzzles - Sometimes unclear path - Character and puzzle elements are slow windup, slow wind-down, making it incredibly frustrating to try and perform precise interactions - Chest opening is slow; a try at giving rewarding reveals, but ultimately fails to do so - Confirm message box with jump key also makes you jump (instead of just closing the dialog) - No good default Steam Controller configuration (I did switch to mouse eventually because aiming was a necessity) I have a feeling the numerous pain points …

Good visuals, music, and great designed boss fights (instead of a HP/bullet sponge to defeat there's strategy involved. There were a few bugs in the game when I had to restart level in order to progress, like one time the big robot would not go to the next checkpoint when I activated it. Camera and controls could have used some work IMO. Screen rotation was real finicky with gamepad, I played most of the game with keyboard & mouse. Recommend getting on sale.

Even if the Zelda influence is obvious, it is both a wonderful experience and succeeds in being unique through it's mechanics and bosses, even if some non-bosses could use a little more polishing

A nice game, beautiful and poetic in its own way. Some puzzles and boss fights are really challenging. The game runs nicely on the Steam Deck out of the box.

playthrough this game twice the second time around the game felt a little hand holdly with all the camera angles to show you the way through a section of the level. I got through it and will say that the boss fights are the stars of the show FOR SURE

it's got nice puzzles and nice out of bounds solutions as well. can't ask for more