Nice, neat, self-contained mostly-linear platformer-explorer.

6-8 hours of story and exploration. There's perhaps a bit of slowness at the start but once you "level up" a bit things get moving. I found the story (and mini-romance) to be engaging enough to get me through the boss battles. Even the last one which feels to me ratchets up the difficulty a tad too much and with no checkpointing. Felt like a "brick wall" boss which I suppose is fine as the end boss?

The exploration music was quiet and contemplative; well done. Overall art style is a treat however I found the juxtaposition of the different intro video style, cutscene style, and in-game style to be confusing. Given this isn't a AAA it's completely forgivable. I wish they had either stuck with a same/similar style or made it blend in better somehow. I also experienced a few lockups when transitioning from "gameplay" -> "cutscene" on the Steam Deck that caused me to hard restart the game but I never lost much/any progress due to the excellent checkpointing/save system.

There's some side collectables and achievements but nothing that is hard to 100%.

Nice, neat, self-contained mostly-linear platformer-explorer. 6-8 hours of story and exploration. There's perhaps a bit of slowness at the start but once you "level up" a bit things get moving. I found the story (and [spoiler]mini-romance[/spoiler]) to be engaging enough to get me through the boss battles. Even the [spoiler]last one which feels to me ratchets up the difficulty a tad too much and with no checkpointing. Felt like a "brick wall" boss which I suppose is fine as the end boss?[/spoiler] The exploration music was quiet and contemplative; well done. Overall art style is a treat however I found the juxtaposition of the different intro video style, cutscene style, and in-game style to be confusing. Given this isn't a AAA it's completely forgivable. I wish they had either stuck with a same/similar style or made it blend in better somehow. I also experienced a few lockups when transitioning from "gameplay" -> "cutscene" on the Steam Deck that caused me to hard restart the game but I never lost much/any progress due to the excellent checkpointing/save system. There's some side collectables and achievements but nothing that is hard to 100%.