Insect Adventure

Really fun movement with Super Metroid style wall jumping, lots of sequence breaking opportunities, and exploration is great. The enemies and bosses aren't fun to fight, but they aren't much of a threat, and there aren't enough of them to get in the way of the good parts. Playing the game I can tell the author put a lot of thought into it. If you aren't sure, try the demo, it gives a pretty good demonstration of the game.

The good: - Always another great power up around the corner - Exploration feels truly free – learning that I could wall jump early on made me feel like I was breaking the game, which feels great - A nice amount of secrets that made me feel good for finding - I usually dislike/skip storylines in MVs, but this one was cute enough and kept mostly out of the way - I appreciated the story and it enforced my in-game motivations The bad: - Combat can be almost trivialized with the pogo move (although the pogo move is very fun!) - Because I mostly spammed pogo, I never got really stumped by boss fights. Partially my fault – but this had the basic effect of removing the fun gameplay of strategizing against bosses - Augments system (think HK pins) has some augments that I never removed – higher jump, pogo, dive kick, maybe some others – I think some of these should have been made into permanent upgrades - Some issues causing me to lose progress (although save points are well-placed to avoid too much loss) The very good!!!: - Character movement is FAST. This is tough at first, but since the game is all about traversal and exploration, I ended up feeling like I’d mastered the movement by the end of the game. You end up with enough movement mechanics that you can zip in any direction, move fast enough to feel just on the edge of losing control, but still be able to attack and dodge enemies. This was the best part of the game for me – play this game if you like mastering movement systems. - To emphasize a point from above: The exploration is free enough that, mixed with creative movement, I felt like I was almost constantly sequence breaking, and almost always was rewarded for doing so. The game never broke when I did this.