The Spirit and the Mouse

fun

mostly enjoyable casual puzzle platformer with metroidvania elements, come back later with more abilities. no jumping, you can climb stuff, even optionally auto-climb. no health, fall damage or dying. can't always fall off ledges by accident, there's a climb back option sometimes, not sure how to tell without trying though and it's really frustrating. movement speed is not too bad but there are some big issues: annoying gibberish, typewriter and shake effect during dialog, unskippable, unnecessarily drawn-out cutscenes and credits, the inability to zoom out the camera and lack of fast travel besides back to the upgrades guy. plus there are sections that require quick action (not for platforming) and there's no accessibility setting for those. saves on exit, rebindable controls, separate volumes, resolutions, windowed mode, closed captions, a few languages, overall gfx quality setting, anti-aliasing, framerate options, v-sync, brightness, vertical and horizontal flip, mouse sensitivity, colorblind mode, optional objective marker (useless, only works for main goals), hold/press toggle for crouching (slower movement, it's a mouse), improved contrast, manual/automatic camera recenter, extra help with notes. good stuff, settings available anytime, and of the 137 collectibles only 80 are needed to unlock all the upgrades, some of which are just fluff, and the last one is the not all that useful collectible locator to find the remainder a bit more easily if you want. unfortunately, there's a random game-breaking bug not letting you climb lattices anymore. the dev's been aware since october 2024, never addressed it, but restarting the game fixes it. it's not a good look either way but at least it's completable and quitting doesn't lose progress.

I fell in love with this game. I enjoyed every single second playing it, even collecting all the bulbs. I'm starting a new file right now!

​Very cute and relaxing game. I loved playing it.

A beautiful and heartwarming game, twisted by gender ideology. The Kibblins have no gender (even though they clearly look either male or female), and the game will certainly let you know this as much as possible, in case you forget of course. I ended up constantly skipping the dialog and just enjoying the rest of the game. This possibly only applies to the English dialog. I believe in German and French the Kibblins are assigned a proper gender. It all makes no sense. I like the mouse, the atmosphere, the music and the simple gameplay. I don't like Lumion and the Kibblins. Even with proper genders, they're all obnoxious.