Archaeogem

Pathetic.

Curtinho mas bem daora, a mecânica das flores é legal e o level design criativo, daora!

Really did not enjoy this one unfortunately. At its best it's unpolished Celeste and at its worst you're waiting upwards of 8 seconds for a cycle or working around the jank of the context sensitive button prompts. This would be way less of a problem if the respawns were on-cycle but many times I found myself waiting around after a respawn until the cycle finally lined up. Graphics are very pretty but very unreadable, you'll have blue mushrooms you can bounce on right next to blue mushroom background decorations and blue spikes that kill you right next to blue spiky rocks that are actually just walls. Perhaps this game could've worked for me if it went in a slightly different direction but it lacks the readability and character controller polish I'm looking for in a precision platformer.

Amazing game. The art style is beautiful and the levels are very well crafted. If you like celeste you'll love this game. It's really charming and I had a great time with it

Для фанатов селесты как что-нибудь похожее идеально, вполне короткая и прикольная

Unfortunately this game had several issues for me after getting to the third main level (which is apparently near the end). The biggest issue is that the game has a screen shake percentage in the options but some abilities still have screen shake even after you set this value to 0 which is a deal breaker if you're prone to motion sickness. The graphical style is very similar to Celeste but there is not enough differentiation between the backgrounds and what you can or cannot interact with, especially when the game is on a larger screen resolution so everything is really blown up and pixelated. It's very hard in some areas to understand what is background, what is foreground, and what can be interacted with. There are also some actual graphical glitches on the left side of the screen when this is full screen where these weird triangles show up. I thought maybe it was eluding to something but with the way it flickers and appears in multiple levels with the same color as the background I don't think that is the case. The mechanics were the most annoying part for me however. You jump with A, whip with right trigger, and then use your ability attained from the whip with B. These are the only inputs in the game yet you cannot change them on a controller, nor are they bound to multiple buttons to give you more flexibility. I don't understand this. Why would any activatable ability be on the B button that I need to use after hitting a trigger instead of one of the other triggers (or preferably the shoulder buttons for an instant response since there is no need for the physical action of a trigger) so my other fingers constantly remain on the jump button and the D-pad? It "feels" really bad to use and can be quite frustrating. The game also has some physics built in which leads to a somewhat floaty character and momentum. Since the character has a whip this means you have to deal with swinging momentum which is awful and extremely frustrating. Oh you hit a wall? Detach from the whip when trying to make enough swing momentum. There's no indicator for the length of the whip as you extend so you have to figure out the proper length and swings for each and every jump failing multiple times. The momentum for the swing itself is also weird where you can be zooming on the swing then you release and go nowhere. This mechanic feels very bad and is not fun to deal with. I wish the whip was just a constant length and you had no control over the swing and it swung full distance automatically. That would make it much less frustrating. The music isn't bad but also doesn't stand out as anything particularly riveting. Overall this game is too derivative for me, is very short (which is fine at the sale price I tried it at of $2), and has mechanics and a lack of graphical clarity that means I can't recommend this even on a sale.

Archaeogem is a fun short platformer that caught me off guard with how fun it was, hooking me fairly quickly. You have 3 levels all lasting about an hour or so long for a normal playthrough of them, taking longer if you want to explore with each level introducing new mechanics to keep things feeling fresh and never dull but never enough to feel overwhelming. It's some nice pacing with each new mechanics tutorial feel blending in with the level rather than some annoying handholding nonsense. It can be a little challenging at points due to being a precision platformer but that's part of the fun being able to overcome the challenges. Platforming itself feels great as well, when you move and jump you get a nice sense of feeling which doesn't feel cheap or wrong which let me play with confidence in what I'm doing. Visually the game is absolutely gorgeous and sets the environments perfectly and I imagine this is what would bring people to the game. Easy recommendation on sale as it's 100% worth it then as $10 feels a bit too much compared to other games. Good stuff.