Vampire's Best Friend

just the right amount of challenge. soundtrack goes hard. the bat is adorable. you gotta play this

10/10, Would punch my balls again.

Precision platformer with essentially one large world for you to explore and collect scrumptious garlic in. Controls aren’t bad but also aren’t tutorialized at all. Ran into some annoying bugs and the game crashed once, but it saves so frequently that it was mostly a minor annoyance. I’m not going back for the rest of the cloves, but I enjoyed my time with it.

Super cute, super brief, hellish precision challenge from hell.

Vampire's Best Friend is one of those games that takes you by the shoulders and says "Hey. Look. I'm doing something different with the controls here, alright? It's not what you'll be expecting and it'll probably take at least 20 minutes before you really start moving with intentionality and it will almost certainly frustrate you… but just trust me, alright?" I did trust it. And I ended up loving it for being uncompromising in its difficult but ultimately masterable controls that massively enhanced what would have been a very easy experience otherwise. The premise of the game is that you're a bat flying through a mansion to try and collect enough garlic to save your vampire friend. However, you can't actually land on the ground, only on the ceiling, and your flight time is limited. So every movement must be calculated, not merely to get the collectables you need to clear the game, but simply to get around. Your only moves are flapping left and right (I suggest using the shoulder buttons) but the real bugaboo with this game is mastering the momentum, because it's key to everything. You really need to get a good grip on how you move, not just in the sense of what pressing the …

i love it