RITE

Beautiful presentation, but unfortunately not a fan of the gameplay here. The controls have a very "sticky" feeling due to what I presume to be the acceleration. As a result, it turns what would be pretty fun level design in any other platformer a game of tug of war with you on one end and the controls on the other.

Really fun, really difficult. Pure platforming. The character is super sensitive though, making small movements almost impossible. Sometimes it feels like you're fighting the controls.

In a game about precision platforming, RITE fails by having horrible controls. Getting the right jump height is frame-perfect and acceleration is near-instant. Worlds 1 and 2 were designed with this control scheme in mind, but worlds 4 and 5 were not. And most levels are uninteresting. At least half of the levels were all about consistently doing one trick. There was one level where the gimmick was getting into openings that are one tile tall at the ceiling, and getting into that gap needs a pixel-perfect jump as bonking on the ceiling kills your momentum. Plenty of levels also liked to put a very hard obstacle at the end, so you can pull off several tricky jumps in a row just to get punished for your final jump not being frame-perfect.

Underrated

started off solid, then the last world appeared and it was just repetitive frame perfect jumps which ruined it for me.

this cute platformer lured me in with cute pixel art and a low price tag. unfortunately, platformers live and die by two things: the controls and the level design. while it isn't evident in the first hour or so of play, the character in this game is extremely twitchy. it doesn't feel so bad when all you have are wide open hallways and minimal hazards, and the first 2-3 worlds feel good to move around in. this all changes in world 4. the increasing difficulty of the levels tends not to highlight the strengths of the precision allowed in the system, but rather how inconsistent and volatile the character can feel due to the very high gravity in particular. eventually i got to a level that required a precise height of jump (i believe called minefield or smth) and it really felt like rolling the slot machine rather than actual timing with how strict it was. many levels also feature repetitive design, where you need to make the same hard jump several times in a row, and it makes the game feel flat and monotonous. more like a series of challenges to practice, like practicing guitar chords. i like difficulty in a platformer, i have p ranked pizza tower with both characters, and beaten ce…