The King's Bird

Un juego de plataformas difícil y bastante retador, pero que se siente muy satisfactorio de completar. La curva de dificultad está muy bien llevada durante gran parte del juego, haciendo que cada salto complicado y cada intento fallido se sientan como parte del aprendizaje. Eso sí, hacia el final la dificultad pega un buen salto y pone a prueba tanto tus habilidades como tu paciencia. Hay secciones que pueden llegar a ser bastante frustrantes, especialmente cuando encadenas varios intentos fallidos. Aun así, es un juego que disfruté bastante. Su apartado visual es bonito, el plataformeo se siente bien y superar cada desafío da esa sensación de "por fin lo logré" que pocas veces consiguen este tipo de juegos. 8/10

King's bird is an awesome game and i think way more people should play it. If it had an explorable world and or more memorable level design this would be an instant classic, but even as it stands the mechanics for movement are so inspired and good I think people are missing out not knowing about it. in general i think the levels are well designed as speedrun challenges, which they are, but the collectibles feel more like they detract from the run rather than teach the player mechanics or hint at speedrun routing Furthermore, the level design seems a bit clunky. The levels do seem like they have intended pathing, but it doesn't feel like a level with a beginning middle and end in the way you'd expect it to. There's no clear progression to the intention or relation between the things being asked. There's always a theme, but it's hard to consider that sufficient when the theme isn't explored more (for longer, maybe? would be nice if the levels had clear relations between each other as well.) Everything feels weirdly disconnected and that's probably my biggest criticism with the game although I do want to love it (and I do like it) This game went a lot deeper into its mechanics than I thought it would. The last area and the last two levels really made me rethink my opinion of the level design, it's actually pretty good once you get to that point. The final platforming in particular is very memorable, I love it. Making you replay it for the achievement was inspired. I wont claim that fixed all of my issues, obviously. Taking this long to get to more memorable levels is hard. That said, I'll argue that the game's difficulty of access actually plays in its favour here, since it has basically 100% retention past the second area. Anyone who gets past that first impression finds a truly wonderful experience with freeing mechanics that make you want for more, that make you want to share this game with people you know and have them master the mechanics as well. There are some slight issues, though. The gameplay is too granular at times, depending on the exact angles you hold at different times you can build or lose greatly varying amounts of speed, which can make it difficult to understand what exactly is holding you back from completing a level. Overall though it's definitely a very solid game, I'll rate it highly at a 7 or 7.5, half a point below Hollow Knight which I consider fundamentally flawless. It's extremely fun just to play with the mechanics though, even if the levels were just a random set of walls ceilings and floor that stretched out infinitely, it would be really fun and satisfying to navigate it. The core of the game is just that strong.