Like many of the other reviewers, I was drawn to Teslagrad by the interesting physics puzzles. I love Portal, The Swapper, and many other similar puzzle games, so I was excited for this one. The puzzles weren't bad, although I found myself dying more to floaty controls than not knowing what I needed to do. Especially frustrating were a few sections that you couldn't survive without playing them repeatedly, so you just needed to retry until you memorized the pattern and executed flawlessly. (Looking at you, floating up to the top of the castle through a laser grid.) The most frustrating part of the experience was definitely the boss fights. Most of them consisted of 90% boring mechanics, then one difficult-to-dodge instakill about 2 minutes in. If you get it, the boss fights are easy. If you don't, you've just wasted 2 minutes of your time. I wanted to love this game. The art style is great, the music is solid, the mechanics are clever. I beat it, but I feel pretty unsatisfied because of how obnoxious the final boss was. Play it if you love difficult platformers, but not if you love puzzle games. (Although I love Mega Man and Shovel Knight, so maybe that's not quite right either.)
