Frogbound: the Legend of Sir Hopper

Offers several hours of tough platforming for a very affordable price. The game will take you through three locations, however only two are truly challenging because the first is significantly shorter. You access them through doors in a corridor, but the order is linear because you must first find a key to unlock the next. Despite the different settings (pond, prison, and sewers), the fundamental gameplay mechanics remain consistent across all of them. This requires a lot of platforming, and searching for switches and keys that open up a path forward. Each chapter is made up of multiple screens. Although you can go also go back, this is not required unless you want to collect everything. There are secret passageways and areas, but this is not a metroidvania. The main collectibles are coins, which can be used to purchase new items. One of the most significant is the coin counter, which displays how many coins are concealed in the current stage. Aside from his jump, which provides some height control depending on how hard you press it, the game's hero is not particularly skilled. He can push foes with his tongue, although it does not cause any damage. Real power comes from three …

I really want to love this game. I do like this game. I also kiiiiiinda hate it. I streamed this game on Twitch for a viewer suggestion day. The first 3 hours I had basically zero complaints and was having a great time. The world is fun, the powers are fun, and the dialogue had me giggling a few times. A few things kept me from loving it, especially once I reached the sewer area: The controls are solid for the most part with two big exceptions for me. Jumping out of the water, especially while you have the double jump power, is very wonky. It feels weird that every time you swim with the double jump power it activates the double jump visual effect. The other exception on the controls is the lack of "coyote time" when leaving a platform. Trying to platform between arrows is especially difficult when you lose the ability to jump juuuuuuust before you think you would. Having some coyote time would make a huge difference in how tight the controls feel. My last criticism is the sewer area. The amount of back and forth for hitting the progression switches was just too time consuming. Especially because the map is not the most intuitive. I got lost a lot even once I was able to save u…

Perfect, Fun and has the right amount of difficulty to make it challenging and enough frustrating! Puzzles are perfectly hard to resolve plus the story, characters and conversations are all memeable XD Totally in love. I'm really waiting for more games made with all the love as this one ;w;)/

Great pixel art platformer, puzzle game. Hope to see more of this in the future