Pid

It is a great platformer puzzle. I wish there were more focus on the story than the puzzles, but it is still a worthy experience

A cute platformer that was great at its time. In Pid, you play as a little kid in a fantasy platformer setting. Graphics are 3D but all gameplay is limited to 2D. The main gist is the ability to create beams that attach to surfaces, stepping on these beams allow you to ride them to unreachable places. There's no double jump, wall climb, nor any other abilities but there's items that will help you like bombs, smoke to obscure cameras, etc. The plot is not that different from other games like Heart of Darkness or Oddworld, you are a kid in an alien world trying to escape while finding weird people to explain a bit of the setting. For some reason, there's a co-op mode that looks more like a throwaway or a curiousity, there's no real advantages of playing with a friend. Pid gives a great first impression, the first couple of levels are well designed and play well and fair. Unfortunately the second half of the game gets unfair quickly. Difficulty spikes a lot and hit collision is clunky. Achievements expect you to find ultra hidden collectables that are impossible to find without some kind of a guide. There's a hard mode, which adds spikes and more enemies everywhere. Beating the ga…

Saveing system is so annoying, making collectibles impossible to get sometimes by undoing the progress you've made in prior areas.

ok

Pid is one of those games that's hard to forget — a beautifully atmospheric platformer wrapped in soft pastels and a genuinely lovely soundtrack, hiding a surprisingly punishing challenge underneath. The core mechanic of placing gravity beams to propel yourself through levels is clever and satisfying, and the level design stays creative for a good chunk of the game. That said, around the one-third mark the difficulty spikes hard, checkpoints become sparse, and what felt like thoughtful puzzle-solving starts turning into frustrating precision platforming with controls that feel a bit too floaty for how exacting some sections demand you to be. I still think it's worth experiencing for the atmosphere and originality alone, especially at the low price it usually sells for — just go in knowing it's more Super Meat Boy than Limbo, no matter how gentle it looks.

It's a platformer, I don't like platformer. It's ok for a platformer I guess.