Astra And The New Constellation

The reviews for this game go to show that Steam reviewers should never be believed under any circumstances. At least one review has given this game's music a positive review. Unironically. So no Steam reviews, including this one, should be trusted. The music is absolutely horrendous throughout. At best it's tolerable, but that's in the second level, meaning it's all dross thereafter. I'd recommend muting and listening to your own music to improve the overall experience. Which is a shame, because the PICO-8 can produce some mellifluent noises in the right hands. What about the gameplay? It's very okay. Not brilliantly engaging, but a surprising amount is done with surprisingly little. Everything is bound to two keys/buttons, so mechanically, everything is pretty simple. Some of the levels are plain annoying, others have small sections that don't quite work as intuitively as you'd think. None of them really give that dopamine hit of a job well done. But I will say it's interesting enough, just about varied enough, and I think the difficulty is about right - any harder would have been a mistake. I did go into this massively underestimating difficulty, thinking it was going…

Very fun little Pico platformer, which has it's idea and explores it thoroughly and enjoyably. I recommend for people to pop in, have some fun, and see how fast they can do it :)

meh

It's nice to play simple & short platformers sometimes

So let me start with, I'm probably not the right kind of player for this game. I've played Celeste through the summit but that's about as good as my precision platforming goes. But my problem is there's no reward. You clear a level, no matter how many stars you get, and then it's onto the next level. There's no screen saying level complete. No lore or anything in between. Just off you go to the next one.

https://youtu.be/a3CpQZlL1mk Tightly framed viewport limits the ability to read levels and enemy positions adding difficulty in a frustrating way.