Feist

I was kinda intimidated by the other reviews at first. Yes, Feist is a bit like Limbo (visuals and minimalism). But would you like Limbo, if it had a bit more colors, a faster character and the most intimidating enemies in all of gaming history? Yeah, not intimidating like "Mhm, we made the model three sizes bigger." or "This enemy makes your red bar shrink really fast." but like "Holy, did this just throw that rock at me- AH, another one! AAAH! It's throwing me all around the level! Take them back!". Would you like to throw a ridiculous amount of stuff at those enemies? Then Feist is for your. TL;DR: Beautiful journey through a mystical forest, where for some reason everything is spiky. Short enough to play through in an evening.

It starts nice (art style and music), but becomes frustrating. Pros: + nice art style + atmospheric music Cons: - short (2 hours) - linear - unfair passages - annoying jumping controls

Feist is very similar to Limbo. You will instantly recognize Limbo from the game play and graphics style. The graphics style is gorgeously well done. Everything from the environment to the creepy things trying to kill you fits very well together. That furry thing that you play as is very likable and it makes you feel sad every time you see him/her die. At first that is. Some enemy encounters does not seem balanced which makes you die an awful lot of times before you finally make your way through it. One place really got to me and it ended in me uninstalling Feist without completing it.

Weak 4. Not a typical platformer. Not at all like Limbo except the use of sillhouettes. Main strength is the intense combat where you typically find yourself fighting hard just to survive. Beautiful scenery as well and a great immersive soundtrack. The story is minimalistically told but does its thing. Puzzles are mostly physics based platformer puzzles. Found the game challenging but not overly difficult. Flaws: Movement at times wobbly. Can be annoying as the game requires a lot of precision. Menus barely work. Lots of weird decisions with the menus and when trying the change key bindings the game crashed. Once i pressed L1 by accident and restarted the game from the beginning. Quickly alt+f4 before it autosaved. The game at times fails to communicate what is going on. E g during the first boss fight, a rope hangs from a tree. A few minutes i tried my best to use that rope to escape, as the boss creatures had been portrayed as impossible to defeat in combat until that point. The rope is just graphics though. Small things like that. I think a better game design is to more clearly show what is needed without spelling it out. Wouldn't surprise me if some people wast like 20 min trying to find ways to escape using the rope. Which is a lot in a 2 hour game. Sometimes annoying random deaths due to how physics based the game is. E g some stone just bounces around, collides with another stone and drops onto your head. Some deaths feel truly random which leaves a poor taste. Checkpoints are never far though and the positives of the more sandboxy platformer feeling outwheigh the negatives. Short. 2 hours. Still, very enjoyable. Recommend it but beware that a lot of people seem to struggle with the difficulty. Just proceed cautiously. Dont run head in as if playing Diablo 2. Its more like Unto the end but with cute magic animal graphics.

Good cinematic platformer with surprisingly fun combat.