Palette Cleanser

Palette Cleanser is a good, very short, and worthwhile play. For a free game created by students, it's good. + Non-trivial control mechanics; sliding, cleansing, intricate + Intricate, dense level (environment/world) + Stylized menus * Clense critters, clense objectives * 7 min playthrough * Works okay with keyboard and mouse, despite only having gamepad guidance - Only keyboard input guidance, no keyboard and mouse guidance - Menus work; menu control felt barebone, with smaller issues

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Very nice and super cute! I loved the cozy and chill vibes and bringin color into the garden was very satisfying. My favorite this was turning the evil little dudes into cute little dudes, how they started forming trains and followed me was so cute omgggg I finished the game in about 20min (played offline so didnt record) and it was a satisfying progression, but I kinda wanted to spend more time in the garden after it ended, so if there were some challenge to collect all the little dudes I would have loved to do that. I generally felt the game was super accessible but maybe a bit too easy? Like I always had wayyy more dudes collected than I needed for the next sprinkler so maybe would have liked if the difficulty was a bit higher, but I'm just this type of player and probably for the wider audience this difficulty is more appealing. The level design was great, very clear paths and satisfying use of verticality, loved the uses of garden objects as platforms and obstacles. My only real issue was idk if I just couldn't figure it out, but it seemed that I cannot stop the character from moving only if I bumped into something - and it's nice that it's a constant movement, I do like that, but I often wanted to look around the garden to see where the sprinklers are + wanted to stop myself when reached a sprinkler, but I just couldn't, the character kept going, I slid off the platform and had to get back up to the sprinkler again. If on pressing the RT again I stopped this wouldn't be a problem I think. But those issues are minor compared to how fun the game is, very good job guys! I needed this cuteness in my life:)