Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland

cute fun with some challenging bits, but adjustable difficulty options to enjoy it however you like.

Fun and challenging metroidvania with beautiful art and animation

This is a delightful little Metroidvania based on the classic "Little Nemo" cartoons. A lot of care went into this game and it shows - the visuals are wonderful, the gameplay is solid, and so much thought has gone into the difficulty. I really appreciate how the game chooses to give you information to adjust difficulty instead of handholding. As someone who often struggles to navigate games in this genre, the map design takes all the remembering out which rooms are dead ends and which are one ways, allowing you to just enjoy the game. I also love that when you go into an area you're not ready for, the game tells you that but does not block you. Allowing you to narrow down what parts of boss battles you're having a hard time with when asking for hints was also a great choice. There's still a little more polishing to do as of this writing for edge case crashes, but I still wholeheartedly recommend this one!

Steam didn't log my time write (I have over 120 hours...). Played mostly on Steam Deck which was great. Incredible from start to finish. So much love, so much polish, and whoever wrote that soundtrack... what a guy.

Amazing Adition to the Nemo franchize. I needed a pallet cleanser game that was fun to play and this one was perfection. Absolutely loved it ^^

Solid Metroidvania with great soundtrack. Well Done

While the artwork and music didn't really click for me, the gameplay mechanics did. I had a good time and there are plenty of hidden goodies throughout a sizeable, explorable game world. The game is well paced and didn't get boring for me.

I grew up playing Little Nemo: The Dream Master on NES. Probably one of my favorite games. So, this was a bit of a no-brainer for me. But maaaaan, I just don't like it. It's got great art, catchy tunes, good writing - but I don't dig the level design, combat, or fast travel requirements. You need 10 blue moons in order to unlock fast travel in an area, but you need to unlock toys from other areas in order to trek back to that area so you can get the rest of the moons. But this probably only lets you fast travel to the location you initially wanted to fast travel to, so you still have to trek to the next place you were just at. I guess there's some better way to deal with the back and forth nature here, but it absolutely sucks chunks. Sometimes I can only play for a little bit. Sometimes I die. Having to drudge through the same areas again and again without feeling like any progress is being made just saps the fun right out of it. Difficulty, especially bosses, is all over the place. Respawn points are too far from bosses. Basically it's just all the things I dislike about metroidvanias rolled into a package I was sure I'd like.

This game is definitely worth a playthrough, but be forewarned if you are a completionist, you will likely leave fatigued and throw in the towel early. There are many great things to find here---nostalgia without the austerity of NES 8-bit; an ode to the original spirit of Nemo; an extensive challenge in all that is exploration; bosses that (with the exception of the final) arguably focus more on puzzling than combat; the soundtrack to the Halloween biome (yes, that one in particular). Whether or not you played Dream Master 35 years ago, this is a worthy contribution to the MV genre with roughly a 15h commitment to chip away to the true ending. That said, my only real significant gripe here is that there comes a point at which "well-hidden" secrets become somewhat obnoxious. Even after a relatively exhaustive post-endgame scouring (WITH the secret finder buddy), I stalled utterly at 93% with several significant items still missing. Within that effort, some of the secrets I actually did find were SO obscure that it made the desire to keep looking thin out with each one. The secret finder buddy also seems to glitch sometimes, giving no alert randomly when a secret was present, and other times deactivating the alert mechanic after finding certain secrets, but not others. In at least two cases, I also had to abandon the effort to retrieve visible items that were categorically unreachable, even with every movement upgrade available and after trying every possible jumping trick and angle in the book. At this point, I've searched nearly every edge of every room in the game, and I have actually only 100% completed a single biome. I feel like if this is the extent to which secrets are going to be hidden, then the player really needs better tools at the end. An inconsistent, half-baked beeping system is sorta comical. Anyway, if you're NOT a completionist and just want a mostly breezy MV experience, then absolutely go for it.

Это,конечно,не тот самый Немо с консоли NES,но тоже прикольно