Dream Tale

2/10

It has a cute aesthetic and basic story, and it is far from the worst platforming game I've played. Unfortunately though, it commits the biggest sin of platforming in my eyes, the character is weightless and floaty. I get that because it's in space, it's supposed to simulate weaker gravity, but for me, it makes the game utterly unplayable.

This game is fine for people who are well practised platformer players, but besides finding the floaty character difficult to control, I find the platform which is just over the total length of two fish who move in opposite directions very frustrating, as I probably miss both fish about 1 in 5 tries.

Nice game

Cute (which is... hard to imagine, coming from the same studio that made [i]Mr. Massagy[/i] of all things), but depressing, especially since there's no real happy resolution regardless if you find all the puzzles pieces or not. More challenging than you're probably thinking, too; some levels will definitely test your patience—this is especially true for the last few stages where the horned mice creatures show up with their strangely specific hit boxes. Still, [i]Dream Tale[/i] is quite decent, even if it feels incomplete (regardless if you collect everything or not, the game ends with a 'to be continued' message), with reasonably solid controls and an art style vaguely reminiscent of [i]Yoshi's Island[/i] or [i]Kirby's Epic Yarn[/i], albeit nowhere near as good in either design or visual direction, but for an exceptionally cheap platforming time waster? You could do much, much worse. [b]Rating:[/b] ★★★

Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Requires blind jumps through different Z levels. Far outclassedby the ruthless competition in the oversaturated platformer market. Review: Game did not fullscreen correctly and went sidebars on me. The audio and 2D sprites have some basic attention paid to them and the indirect narrative delivery usually fits this genre. However the game uses slime and a minimalistic protag to keep animations to a minimum. Protagonist and foes move extremely slow, the jumping feels like it is in slow motion, the whole thing is insanely dragged out and boring. You have to platform your way across different Z levels my making blind jumps and are often trapped between enemy slimes as they slowly move forward because the dev designed the levels to have only one way forward. Rest of mechanics is a keyhunt and reaching a portal placed at the end of a bunch of lazily placed platforms. The missing pet narrative did not hook me. Removed for declutter.