Leap Year

Great game; not for me.

A bit annoying walking around the map without the map sometimes

This game is like watching a magic trick while learning how to play sudoku for the first time while someone keeps teasing you every time you say "the". Metaphorically speaking, anyway. It's also really really good.

clever

The reason that I don't like this puzzle platformer is that it has a sort of reverse game design. Basically you are VERY limited in what you can do as the player. For starters you need to collect numbers in a very linear sequence. Then it fills the game with ideas that are of the "I gotcha" school of game design. Usually you get abilities and then you test how far you can get with it. That's much more intuitive then limiting the players abilities and the letting them guess what ideas you have had. This becomes clear when the game starts painting the solutions to its "puzzles" on the walls of the world. Because when the game doesn't do it you often have to make large circles around the entire map to retry the last jump or attempt to reach a certain number. Its just to tedious to be fun. The two hours that it cites as playtime seems measured by the designer himself then the playtime of actual players that need to find everything out themselves. Its not fun.

Short, sweet, worth every penny. Game that has perfected level design without blatantly telegraphing how the room will be used. Had a smile on my face after every puzzle!