Apparently it's a really good platformer according to a lot of people.
I just don't think so. Played light and dark world finishing Salt Factory, and just wasn't having fun.
Not because of the difficulty; I perfected HM1, HM2, done LASO runs on Halos, and am in the process of iron manning every single Celeste chapter; and I'm almost done. I KNOW difficulty.
But I also know frustration. This game is just frustrating. I had fun playing all those difficult games, but I did not have fun playing this one.
Meatboy is a nightmare to control. He slips and slides all over the place. And the worst part is that most of this game doesn't revolve around long sections of going really fast; it's usually slow and precise. It feels like they made a game around a character that it doesn't work for.
Other characters don't resolve the issue (as far as I got). They're either clones of Meatboy with slight changes, or completely awful to control (worse than Meatboy) like Naira or whatever the fish's name is.
Environmental danger hitboxes like saws and salt have hitboxes that seem to extend outside what the actual geometry looks like, resulting in deaths that feel like they aren't my fault but the game's.

Don't really have much to say unlike my other reviews. Game isn't fun.

Apparently it's a really good platformer according to a lot of people. I just don't think so. Played light and dark world finishing Salt Factory, and just wasn't having fun. Not because of the difficulty; I perfected HM1, HM2, done LASO runs on Halos, and am in the process of iron manning every single Celeste chapter; and I'm almost done. I KNOW difficulty. But I also know frustration. This game is just frustrating. I had fun playing all those difficult games, but I did not have fun playing this one. Meatboy is a nightmare to control. He slips and slides all over the place. And the worst part is that most of this game doesn't revolve around long sections of going really fast; it's usually slow and precise. It feels like they made a game around a character that it doesn't work for. Other characters don't resolve the issue (as far as I got). They're either clones of Meatboy with slight changes, or completely awful to control (worse than Meatboy) like Naira or whatever the fish's name is. Environmental danger hitboxes like saws and salt have hitboxes that seem to extend outside what the actual geometry looks like, resulting in deaths that feel like they aren't my fault but the game's. Don't really have much to say unlike my other reviews. Game isn't fun.