Fossil Echo

Коротенький, гарний, легенький платформер, усе проходження зайняло 50 хвилин. Навіть картки не встиг зібрати за проходження, довелося потім просто так гру запускати. Рекомендую купувати хіба на великому розпродажі. $10 не вартує, а $2-$3 сам раз.

I wanted to like this game because it has great art and music, but it's a rage-quit game. The store page calls it "challenging", but it's far beyond challenging. In the 30 minutes or so I played before rage-quitting, there were two types of sections. The first type of section is a vertical climbing stage in which the game auto-scrolls the screen upward and you have to keep running, jumping, and wall-jumping your way up. This requires precisely-timed jumps. You will die if you're even 1/10 of a second too slow, which is easy to do since your character does not control well. As other reviewers have commented, the character is "slidy" (it seems that momentum carries him forward a bit once you release the movement key/button) and you cannot jump immediately after climbing/landing). This is the first section you encounter, so it's very possible you will rage-quit within the first five minutes of the game. The second type of section is one with enemies which shoot and instantly kill you. You need to avoid these enemies by jumping and climbing while their backs are turned. The problem is that their backs are not turned long enough to successfully make it through these sections. You need to learn their movements and be able to start your progression several seconds in advance so you are in the right place when the guards turn. In this section, too, if you are even 1/10 of a second too slow, you will die. It doesn't help that there is a lack of consistency when it comes to wall-jumping. Most of the time, you cannot jump and grab onto a wall and then jump again and grab the same wall again, but sometimes you can, with nothing indicating when you are allowed to do this. This happens in the auto-scrolling levels, so following the game's established rule of no double wall jumps will contribute to your number of deaths and rage level because some places require double wall jumps. This may not look like a game which requires perfect timing, but that's exactly what it is. I'm not against challenging games, but a game which requires timing this precise is beyond challenging -- it's nearly impossible, especially given the troublesome controls.