Pilfer: Story of Light

The game is OK, not great. Worth playing if you enjoy variety, like the cute aesthetics, and don't mind a general feeling of bugginess. Recommended on a quantity-over-quality basis. You select a biome from the hub world and pick one of the 4 or so fairly easy linear levels with a bunch of different gimmicks. Some levels end in a boss fight. There is a hidden "star card" in each level to collect (36 total). Those unlock 4 frustratingly difficult challenge levels. You also collect thousands of coins to buy outfits with. You have a double jump, an air dash, and a dash cancel, so effectively you have a quadruple jump. This gives you a lot of control, but platforms are often far apart so you need them. There are also Celeste-like advanced movement options. You have a magic wand attack that is used for combat but also for activating launch pads, power crystals, grapple points, etc. There are a few frustrating design choices: you can't double jump out of a wall jump, but you can out of launch pads. You bonk if you dash against a wall, even if you're nearly parallel to it. When you get hit or bonk there is an annoying long recovery time. You can't use your magic wand out of a dash, unless you dash recover first. Sometimes you have to swing across a pit but activating the swing point doesn't work because the auto aim isn't lenient enough. It all adds up to a frustrating experience at times. But the main game is pretty easy, so it's tolerable. As for bugs, I've had two softlocks, from a boss bugging out and from getting stuck behind geometry. I had to restart the area. There are also visual bugs, like damage zones disappearing while they were still active, and a certain enemy falsely appearing stunned. I almost got 100% in my 8 hours, but after spending an hour attempting a series of jumps in Challenge Level 3 I gave up.

Jogo de plataforma muito bom, Recomendo

This is a great game and I love the art style and direction it went. We need more games kind of like this, maybe less sky jumping over death pit and more adventure type, but I would like to see more games with Pilfer. The gameplay was great, although there was a small issue with targeting where it would flicker and not grab on to the objects and I'd fall to my death. I had 2 crashes the entire time playing, but that's not that bad. They both happened when I paused the game in windowed fullscreen and tabbed out and then back in. That might just have been a random issue with the graphics driver though. Now about the one achievement.. If you're getting this game to 100%, just know that there's no video guides and no help (at the time of writing this). You're on your own. I played all the way through the game and never once had any issues with difficulty.. until I got to the very last achievement. (I won't say which as to not accidentally spoil anything outright.) The difficulty went from maybe a 3 or 4 to 45. The jumps I had to make were a little less than a SM64 speedrun from a top pro. I exaggerate a bit of course, but these 6 jump locations I feel have to be pixel-perfect or "bonk" or death. I had several people watch me struggle in one area of that level and they could not believe what they were seeing. At the very least, I believe this achievement needs adjusting so that at least it matches the difficulty of the rest of the game. Again for spoiling reasons, I can't even say what made this even more difficult, but there's some object in the way, as a hint to what's wrong here. So my final word on this is that if you're looking for a good game, this is definitely a good one. If you are looking to casually or otherwise 100% the game and achievements, beware of the difficulty spike out of nowhere.

https://youtu.be/3cgus_A_eJU Generally competent for character movement, but a limited level design and texture variety can cause difficulty in identifying distances.

I just started this game. I'm about an hour in, but I am absolutely blown away by the content on offer here! This is an absolute steal for the $10 the Developer asks! Especially if you are a huge fan of the Super Mario series, as I happen to be! You can tell that the Developer took heavy inspiration from that series, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing! After all, if it isn't broke then don't fix it! I was looking for a game exactly in line with this for my Steam Deck, and I'm very glad I came across it! I love how the control scheme is just as fluid as in Super Mario Odyssey while also taking inspiration from the Galaxy series as well! 10/10 as far as I'm concerned! Can't wait to keep playing until 100% completion! This is one Developer you'll want to keep an eye out for! They're very talented and their end product, from what I can see here, is very well polished and they accomplished what they set out to do! I can't believe I didn't buy this and play it sooner...

It feels like playing a late-stage beta of one of the greatest platformers of all-time. At the same time, it's hard to get too excited when the vast majority of the concepts are stolen from various Mario games. I seriously wonder exactly how legal this game is....hopefully legal enough to stay in my library.

Very good indie 3D platformer. Super Mario Odyssey movement with 3D World / Galaxy level design. Fun to 100%.

[h1] Best Mario Like Budget Platformer On Steam 9/10 [/h1] This game while on the budget side does what is important gameplay The early levels are quite boring but about halfway through all the levels become more complex and an absolute joy to play If you can please support these guys as it is brilliant you will not be disappointed with the Mario Galaxy & Odyssey style gameplay coming from a huge nintendo fan since my first game as a kid

pretty glitchy but still a fun lil platformer

It's a janky clone of Mario Galaxy and Odyssey, down to the bubble in Rosalina's Observatory. No ideas, no polish, no shine -- I really don't understand why you would play this over the originals.