Ailuri

I really wanted to like this game, the art style alone sells it. The gameplay however, not so much. You can very easily be stun-locked to death; you'll get a knock-back/stun from a damage source, which puts you in even more danger until you die. Even in the unlikely event that this is meant to be a souls-like platformer and I should get good, the responsiveness of the controls prevent this. The heal efficiency also seems a bit off, that much of your 'mana' bar for such a small amount of health is near on pointless. And the final straw was going into a boss fight and the boss didn't even bother to follow his pathing and follow me like he's meant to. Again, I wish I could say more positive things about this. But the art style is gorgeous.

Let's just start off with the visuals. Cute panda, unique art style and simple but pretty funny looking monsters. For the first level i tried a full completion, getting used to the controls and enjoying the art style. The game doesn't exactly tell you this, but you can reel the grapple in and out. The dash can also be used in an upwards or half moving, half upwards way. After understanding this and not really feeling the game yet my choice was to try and speedrun some levels. Hoping there was something in some level that would be at the very least memorable enough to keep going. Sad to say this didn't come in the 9-10 or so levels I played during the hour I gave myself to try this game out. There are just too many different collectables in each level and the momentum, movement and grappling are clunky and not as snappy as other platformers. It feels like a toned down version of the super meat boy momentum without the need for it. The extremely steep drop off in global collected achievements, the fact this had 1341 Kickstarter backers and the amount of overall reviews should tell you enough. Steam has a very lenient refund policy if you are still not convinced to skip out on this…

It brings me no joy but right now this is just in a broken state. It's very pretty, and there is some good gameplay that could be salvaged here, but it is extremely buggy - it doesn't recognize the pause button on my controller, and i reached my limit when one area's camera shifts when you enter it to a default coordinate such that you can't complete the miniboss within. It's really rough and I would have hoped that this sort of thing would have been ironed out by now, over a year after launch (and long after the Kickstarter).

Would have loved to enjoy it but terrible sound design and poor/buggy controls/gameplay ruins the lovely artstyle and potential story

Really enjoying, runs great on Linux.

Hurtbox is larger than player, Water level ruined the game