Super Candle World

Super Candle World is a cute 3D platformer that can be finished in around an hour and a half after getting the hang of quite the unusual set of controls. But first things first: you're a candle collecting cookies in small worlds that are unlocked the more cookies you collect, so getting all of them per world is ideal. For that to happen, you'll need to fly. As a candle, you have a surprising amount of mobility: sprinting, double jumping, hovering and, as mentioned, flying. Most of your time on (or close to) land will control as expected of a character in a 3D collectathon traversing mostly 3D levels with some decent verticality. There are some challenging jumping sections that can be bypassed if you fly, as one would think. The thing about the flying, and I make so much emphasis on it because it's so much fun, is that it controls more like a tank in the air rather than anything else. You'll propel forwards into whatever you've got before you for a definite time, and then veer left, right, up and down depending on where you're aiming your head. It's a handful the first few times, but once you get the hang of it, it feels incredibly rewarding. So, the 3D collectathon is fun to move…

[h1] Short and Sweetish [/h1] I'd like to start this review by saying I received a key for this game from the developer. Super Candle World is a short but sweet 3D platformer collectathon. It doesn't do anything special, and has a couple little problems, but for $3 I think it's a perfectly fine way to spend an hour if you're a fan of the genre. It controls well, has some fun levels, and I had fun collecting every single golden cookie in the game. The game is broken up into individual levels where you have to collect a few golden cookies. These can be hidden behind doors you need to open by collecting candies, or behind platforming challenges, or even a boss fight. The levels are perfectly sized for a game like this, allowing you to explore and find the secrets without it feeling like a chore. The game controls surprisingly well. You can run, jump, hover, and fly, and this is the games main issue. Flying makes the game's platforming sections an absolute joke. You can skip 90% of the platforming in this game by flying. Now obviously you can just choose to not take advantage of this which is what I did, but if you wanted to, you could skip whole sections of levels by flying. There …

Mixed feeling about this game. The flying really irks me. But other than that, it seems very well made. And the price for an hour or two of enjoyment is definitely there. If I could rebind the keys I would have played a lot more.

Silly Fun

I wish there was a neutral button for reviews. This game is fine, its nothing special but also not bad however it has one very big issue: It has too much movement. Allowing players to fly makes pretty much all of the platforming irrelevant. This can be very easily fixed by taking away fly and putting a little platform that allows you to fly at the few spots where you need flight and suddenly this game would be much more fun.

I liked the game but I also didn't love it either, I leave a positive review because I have more positive feelings than negative but it is close. As a whole the music left me rather bored over the last hour but in terms of sheer competency as a platformer I think it is rather okay. Not perfect, good but some issues exist, the flight and tall jump mechanics as well as environmental geometry allow many of the challenges to be easily bypassed and even then I think some of the 3d platforming when it wasnt taken advantage of could have been better but overall I think the dev did pretty okay. Bring your own music and it may be a better experience of about 1 ish hours but on sound not just music, "combat" or this games equivalent of taking out goombas in Mario has poor feedback in terms of visual or audio cues. I had more audio destroying the whipped cream swirls than the enemies that fall silently flat with hardly a visual impact visual either. I also think the enemies are underutilized and while having any at all does add something extra to the experience, I think more variety could have been good. It feels a lot like someone who was experimenting with mechanics for the first time, acco…