Farlands Journey

Making a review because as of writing there are none. This game is very short but also has a lot of charm packed into it. I randomly discovered it from a stray YouTube home page video and was interested because it reminded me of classic Rayman on the Playstation and other later MS-DOS era games. The story of the game is extremely simple which is perfectly fine because that is par for the course for the games it's most likely inspired by. I was definitely pleasantly surprised by the soundtrack of the game because it is REALLY good. The actual levels themselves have very solid themes and varied aesthetics BUT I do feel like they could have been even better if there were more enemy types. There's a small selection of enemies that get repeated through each level and those aren't bad but I think having enemies that matched the themes of the levels would have gone a long way. Another gameplay issue I have is that the bosses, whenever they do appear, are extremely rudimentary and don't really make full use of your abilities with the bubble wand. They all go down pretty fast, including the final boss. Which is a shame because I really like how the wand system itself works and how the b…

Pretty ok platformer.