Pilfer: Story of Light

I'm willing to accept a lot of jank for indie platformer games, but this is just too much. The character controls like it has 15 full diapers at the same time. Almost unplayable for me.

Amazing game. Had a very fun time. Would definitely buy again.

Annoying finicky controls. Piss-poor save system. Redefined controls are not matched by ingame glyphs.

[i]What if Mario Galaxy, but a raccoon[/i] Of course, me never having played any of those games--only seen a few of them while watching my younger sibling play--my closest comparison was easily Hat in Time, albeit Pilfer is a touch less agile than Hat Kid. Game is still shockingly good for its price, tho, and I'm actually kinda mad at myself for not buying it sooner lol Pilfer was an absolute joy to play through, full stop; I kept finding myself thinking how delightful the experience was, what with the pleasant visuals, the excellent music, and the freedom to play however you wish, up to and including [i]speedrun strats[/i] (seriously, the "challenge levels" even tell you that you can do stuff like B-Hop, this game is nuts). Easily a strong recommend for anyone that's a fan of 3D platformers~

This game is indie super mario galaxy. If you like 3D platformers you will love this

The game itself is good but really glitchy.After beating the game it took all my coins away I was saving. The game outright takes mechanics from multiple Mario games 64, Sunshine,Galaxy, Odyssey. It mixes them somewhat well but feels a little lacking in focus at least to me. I don't think the glitches will be patched so hard to outright rec this game since could randomly unable to fully 100% the game like I did. I'd recommend the game since been patched.

An admittedly familiar, but somehow improved character controller + very solid level design chops makes this a generally very fun 3D platformer.

God what an underrated game. Alot like Mario Galaxy. DO NOT SLEEP ON IT.

Pretty fun 3D platformer. Had a pretty basic story but worked well with the game. The levels were pretty fun and the music was really good as well. Movement and the controls worked well with a controller (PS4). The games controls are fluid and allow you to do some very fun movement platforming as well which made your character move really fast. This game graphically looks similar to that of an early Wii game and you can see clear inspiration from the Mario Galaxy games in its design. You collect lanturn as the main progression collectible while able to find a secret card hidden on most levels as well. The boss fights were pretty fun and the game to me was an enjoyable experience. You can also unlock new costumes in the game that doesn't change anything gameplay wise but gave the character a unique look. Difficultywise the game to me was pretty easy for the most part but did have some challenges along the way as well. Outside of a select few completely optional levels it was never a frustrating experience to me. Now this is not a perfect game by any means and it has some glitches and bugs here and there. Like being able to clip through certain objects getting you stuck but thanks to the games reset function you could easily get out without loosing much progress. I also decided to get every single achivement in the game, it was pretty straight forward getting most achivemnts but it had a few tricky ones as well out of all 13 it had. I can recommend this game to people who crave a overall good 3d platformer with a touche of Nostalgia for Mario Galaxy but wants to play something new or those just wanting to try a new 3D platformer. :)

There's no getting around the fact that this is an indie Mario Galaxy "clone." I honestly had several laugh-out-loud moments while discovering for myself how much of a "rip off" it was, and in so many ways. BUT, I could tell that it was done out of love rather than malice. As a fellow hyper-fan of Mario Galaxy, I can't help but respect it. The visuals are nice albeit amateur feeling, though the weakest element are without a doubt the giant monolithic cubes with obvious tiling textures that make up each level. This is a case where Mario Galaxy could've certainly been studied more to see how the platforms can be contextualized for each level. Even just some fog, color/alpha blending and stacked textures at different scales could've been a cheap fix under a tight modeling budget. While the game may be a tad rough around the edges design-wise (I don't recall any actual bugs), it was still an endearing experience. I'd recommend it if you're another hyper-fan of Mario Galaxy! Hopefully the dev takes what they learned on this to make a more unique game with some things of its own to say... and from the looks of "Crescent Overload" it sure seems like it! <3