Reset 1-1

I don't like how slow you run. It kills the flow for me.

Nice game

3/10

The pixel art, despite being simply mediocre in some parts, still has a certain charm, even more with the effect of deaths causing the world to become progressively darker, not just losing color but details such as trees losing their foliage and then dying. The music accompanies that, with tracks going from upbeat to slow and foreboding. And that's the biggest praise I can give to this game. The controls don't feel good because the physics and momentum of the character are weird, like he was constantly skating rather than walking, not helped by iffy collisions. Fighting is bad too, due to that stamina system that is more annoying than anything and enemies that, save the smallest ones, are damage sponges. It's an exercise in frustration, with few and far between checkpoints, always and rigorously putting a section of platforming or annoying combat before a boss that is likely to destroy you and force you to redo all. It's very short but the one playthrough I found has about half the time spent retrying boss fights. Even that nice visual gimmick becomes a further annoyance because it reduces the visibility and readability of the screen. At the very beginning, after activating a mec…

A fun microPlatformer that controls way better than it seems at first. Some unique slow stank as a modifier for many deaths.

Reset 1-1 is a short retro platformer with some genuinely interesting ideas — the visual degradation mechanic where colors drain away as you die is a clever touch that adds both atmosphere and tension. That said, the controls feel frustratingly floaty and slippery for a game that demands precision platforming, and the awkward default key bindings (X, C, V for actions?) make an already difficult game feel needlessly clunky. Boss fights can drag due to the shared stamina/dodge resource, and the color-draining gimmick, while creative, ends up making later sections actively harder to read visually. For the price it's not a total waste, and achievement hunters can knock out 100% in under two hours, but there are far better retro platformers worth your time.