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pros and cons of this compared to refunct pros: the level opens up in a way that presents multiple targets and you can choose to aim for. the more i played the more i liked this. its short and cheap cons: wallrun - wallruns are awkward, i think you have to be facing the wall to hold on, makes it easy to fall off walljump - if you're facing into the wall you end up jumping parallel to the wall, rather than away at the angle you're facing, which combined with having to face into the wall to stay on, makes wall jumping incredibly awkward and unsatisfying low air control - if you accidentally jump too much in one direction, you can't correct at all, which is annoying. no coyote time - easy to just fall off blocks. fix those 4 cons and the game will be good further harder to address cons: dull level design - almost every route is just a climb up a staircase of blocks. i believe this is partially to do with how bad the rest of the platforming mechanics are. uninspired graphics

At first I thought each playthrough and restructuring of the environment would be different, hence the description "atmospheric", but then I saw the leaderboards. The game works both ways, but to be really atmospheric, it would need a real "chill" soundtrack. Some classical pieces are imitated, why not play the real ones? As for the speedrunning, you hear footsteps, but do not see your "character". So precise jumping only comes with playtime. The best element being the simple and artificial style -no stupid buttons or colours- one could have made a consistent game by making the character soundless and keeping it a "camera" only. Noticeable things would then be the sunlight and the watersound, a good contrast to the design. But it costs almost nothing in the sale and poses a little challenge to finish it, so, not that bad.