Below The Ocean

Played a demo version on cool math games, bought the game to support the dev, without much thought to finishing it. While I still am not done with it, I find it relaxing to come back to when none of my library looks appealing. Very straightforward, short missions take away the need I feel to commit to a long play session. If you're considering this game, you might as well pick it up, it costs less than a Big Mac by now.

Below the Ocean is a bite sized platformer with some brilliant new ideas, great level design and tight controls. The style being cute, the sound effects/music being lovely, the length being just right, everything loads quickly/straight and the achievements being fine almost make this game perfect. The parts that I didn’t like were the checkpoint system and how some of the gems were hidden in very mean ways (the game’s collectible). Some checkpoints were temporary (if you die while playing, you return there) and some were permanent (you can quit the game and continue later). There are achievements to complete the chapters without dying, trying to reload saves often meant that you have to retry too many sections because there weren’t enough permanent checkpoints. Other than that, I highly recommend the game to fans of the genre. The 4 chapters can be finished very quickly but trying to complete them without dying and finding everything took me around 3.5 hours. The price of €5 is worth it when you go for 100%. I’m happy to have gotten it on sale (70%?) but I was also glad to be done with the game when the last 2 chapters were becoming a bit more annoying.

Didn't realize I never completed this until I found it installed. Grabbed this as RetroCon along with the other games the dev has created. It's a good game. Music is good. I really like the art style, fits in really well with the retroesque genre. The controls are on point and the mechanics are well done and cleverly done. I'm not a completionist so I probably won't go back and do the no-death/all treasure runs. The only things I'd probably like to see changed: I didn't realize I finished it though, so I would say maybe something at the end like: "You completed the game, but there is still treasure to be found." to let us know. And at the start, it hints at a story and I'd really like to know more about that, unless it needs to have a 100% run? But either way, this is minor and the genre doesn't really mandate or use story often and so I don't really count this as a con as the game play itself definitely delivers the value. All in all, recommended if you are a fan of this genre.

оч прикольная игра где можно и подумать, и поуворачиваться от всяких препятствий, при этом без душниловки мне понравилась! красиво, тихо и стандартно, рекомендую (｡v_v｡)

Short, novel, and fun.

Short, but tight controls, unique mechanics, and very fun all around ^^