Faerie Afterlight

Beautiful but flawed game. The game is cute, has good music and some challenging platforming and boss fights. Unfortunately, the challenge isn't always fair. Take the endboss for example: sometimes it spawns the same attack several times, preferably the one where you can't damage it. It makes the fight an annoying endurance run. I frequently also had trouble "finding" my character onscreen. The character is small, close to the ground, close in color to many set pieces and I couldn't pick him out in a busy boss fight often. This may be a problem specific to me though. That is not to say this is a bad game, it is not. The platforming puzzles and abilities are fun and the game feels like a very different take than Ori. It is a bit of a diamond in the rough. Would still recommend for platforming fans.

I want to love this game. Heck there were moments where I did love the game. But it feels squandered by glitches, laggy controls and poorly designed boss fights. I wish that there were some serious updates but it feels like it was released and then forgotten about seeing as I took a year break from playing and came back to it being exactly the same! The art style and area visuals are so amazing and the music is really nice but the fast travel sucks and you can't traverse the maps easily if you miss something. While the platforming doesn't feel too hard most of the time, there are sections that are very punishing and you have to do the whole bit again because you got hit once. The final boss is where I draw the line. I have tried at least 20 times. Every. Single. Time. I am getting glitched out with either the same attack 6 times in a row that I can't deal damage, spawned onto a hazard that I never recover from, or straight up CAN'T SEE. WHY WOULD YOU PUT A BLACK BLOB ONTO A DARK BACKGROUND WITH A BLACK ENEMY THAT SHOOTS BLACK AND RED PROJECTILES. All in all I want to love it so much but it needs a lot of improvements that I don't think we're getting anytime soon.