Goop Loop

Honestly, I love it! The game is intentionally frustrating with a tough mechanic that makes it easy to mess up and lose practice, but it isn't ham-handed with it; the repetition actually helps you climb the skill curve for tougher challenges. I've busted out laughing multiple times from the voice lines, and I come back every once in a while to try to tackle the next challenge. In my opinion, well worth the experience for the small cost.

there is no "Are you sure window" when you click on reset, im ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tears

Super frustrating, also really feels good when you get past obstacles that you couldn't work out how to do earlier.

Physics platformers are notorious for being insanely hard. This one's no exception. But it does have some quirky/clever vocal (English only) tutorial, that only really speaks up if and when you're having trouble. I was actually quite amused by how the game knew when to say "You should slow down", versus pretty much pre-emptively telling me I screwed up when I passed a point of no return. It's like having the developer commentary from Half-Life (But more quirky/punny), the goopiness of Gish (With more freedom of movement), and the jankiness of, well, basically every physics platformer out there. My hand started hurting after about an hour, so I had to take a break, but I'll definitely be trying to finish it after I take a break. It seems like every time you think you get where they're going with the game, something very unexpected happens, and you get to learn to overcome a totally new obstacle. That's pretty rad.

goty

hard

I hate this game. Which means it succeeded.