Oscuro Blossom's Glow

A nice short game with lovely aesthetics. I like puzzle platformers and this one hit the spot for me. There are some challenging areas but overall, not too difficult.

Top tier game. 10/10. Will play again.

tl; dr: game is good overall. i do recommend playing it. main issues are the controls, which are sticky/laggy in responding at times as well as SUPER nitpicky for accuracy for the puzzle platforming. but cant beat the whole package for the price point. ----- can confirm all of the other reviews are exactly spot on. overall? game is a gem. art design? immaculate. so unique and cute. soundtrack? fantastic. im already expecting i'll be listening to it as background music at work, playing other games, etc. characters? great. felt torn at the ending because even without speaking a word the game design still was compelling and made you care about the characters and creatures (or at least i did). game design? innovative. i enjoyed the different kinds of puzzles as well as figuring them out. nothing was too difficult but it still offered a solid challenge plenty of times to be fun and cozy. now the bad: yeah, the controls are REALLY nitpicky. yes, puzzle platforming calls for precision by default. but theres a difference between precision and just straight up splitting hairs. and this game splits hairs on controls. 90% of my deaths were from stupid things like i was trying to move forward and jump at the same time to lead to a greater leap in distance. cause thats how it usually goes for most other games and its ingrained habit for me to try. this one its like ONLY one control at a time. so me moving forward and pressing to jump actually just led to me straight up walking off the edge of things and dying. (everythings a 1 hit KO so only takes one time to have to reset entirely.) not even kidding, i instinctively rolled my eyes IRL at so many of these deaths cause it was just the game being fussy, leading to a super dumb death. other caveat: so the controls are super nitpicky, but it is what it is. but if youre going to have controls be THAT fastidious about being spot on, then youve GOTTA have reasonable checkpoints when youre resetting after dying. plenty of the checkpoints arent in the same room you were in, so youre actually backtracking a bit every single reset. even plenty of times if there was a cutscene where when you first entered the room the game moved the camera to show something further into the room before panning back to you... well, when you die and reset, you get that whole little cutscene all over again. every single time. to be fair its not like a full on cutscene so its not THAT long or anything but when its just showing what you already know, its annoying. so having the game be more intuitive about where checkpoints are would be a massive improvement. other control issue: sometimes the game straight up doesnt register you hit a key. specifically almost every time you needed to use B (i was on controller) to push/pull an object, it didnt register i pushed anything and i had to unpress the button and try pressing again and then it worked. that shouldnt be happening at all. so as others have said, controls are like sticky or laggy sometimes. even more of a problem considering its a platformer where its wanting you to be so precise lol. otherwise though the game is great. i enjoyed it. im glad i got it. i would recommend it. i would just say be aware that the reviews are correct and youre going to be dying a lot. plenty of times from stupid things that usually you wouldnt be dying from in other games. is what it is. for a $6 game though, cant beat the price for how polished everything else is though (especially if it was on sale!) give it a shot!