Windswept

I was just recently informed that this game has 'accessibility' cheats that I didn't realize were part of the game when I first played it. This is the sole reason I'm leaving a negative review.

Great platformer. Played through with my kid and had a good time.

If you don't go for 100%, it's a nice and fun platformer - even if it's still a difficult one. 100% must be brutal (I haven't even tried, as I'm not that good). It's kinda of like Crash Bandicoot 4 - play it normally without caring of collecting everything and you'll get a mostly nice time with a handful of stressful sections; play it with intention of doing 100%... oh poor you!

Great

Windswept es un juego de plataformas 2d inspirado en los clásicos Donkey Kong Country, que son unos juegos muy buenos y a los que les tengo mucho cariño. He de decir que me ha sorprendido bastante en cuanto a la jugabilidad y diseño de niveles, que considero que no solo están a la altura de los títulos antes mencionados, si no que muchas veces dan "un paso más allá" de lo que vimos en estos juegos de Super Nintendo También he de decir que es un juego muy desafiante, sobre todo si buscas conseguir todos los coleccionables y superar los niveles opcionales. Aunque a mi me gusta un buen desafío, con el primer nivel secreto que encontré casi me vuelvo loco para completarlo, recordandome incluso en este aspecto la dificultad de Celeste. Así que, tras haber completado el camino principal y haber conseguido buena parte de los coleccionables, no se me atreveré a buscar el 100% del juego, que me parece una tarea complicadisima para lo mayor que estoy y la paciencia que tengo actualmente. Dicho todo esto y para terminar, recomiendo el juego a los jugadores que le gusten los plataformas en 2d clásicos y esperen un juego desafiante. Si buscas un juego de plataformeo más casual puede ser que Windswept te resulte abrumador, así que piensatelo dos veces antes de comprarlo

good game

Pizza Tower'dan beri en sevdiğim platformer. Sanatı, bölüm tasarımları, müzikleri, her şeyiyle tam benim gibi DKC severler için yapılmış bir oyun. Hareket şemasının verdiği özgürlük hissiyatı gerçekten inanılmaz. Elbet bir gün 100%leyeceğim, şimdilik Twitter'da geliştiricinin attığı post yüzünden çocukadamlar tarafından başlatılan reviewbombinge karşı pozitif inceleme olsun diye ayaküstü pozitif inceleme yazmak istedim. Sizden ustalaşmanızı isteyen, sizi gerçekten test eden 2D platformerları seviyorsanız kaçırmayın.

Rien a dire ! un pure banger !

Gameplay spoilers, don't read this review if you want to play this game blind. If you're looking for a casual experience I would recommend just beating the base game and leaving it at that, or just passing the game up altogether. If you want to feel challenged this is absolutely the game for you. I think this game doesn't work super well as a casual game. Before you get to the final two worlds the game feels like it's supposed to be a decently difficult game, not too easy but not too crazy hard either, and I think it fails to nail that exact vibe in a lot of ways. I could probably think up many reasons as to why the game wasn't gelling with me super hard but the one that always comes to mind first is the game wastes a lot of your time. Sometimes you'll come across something hard and need multiple tries to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do, and that's totally fine, but every time you die you get sent back to a checkpoint and have to do like ten easier things again just to get another shot at the hard thing. This absolutely is something that happens in the DKC series, and many other older platformers that this game is emulating, but it feels worse here, and I think that's cause the controls are fairly difficult to master. I commonly found myself dying to being unable to control the characters who sometimes shoot off in a direction at high speed, I'd try to hit the brakes, the character would stop far more abruptly than I'm expecting and I'd inevitably get hit by something while trying to reel my characters' speeds in. Enemy placement can also be very unfair at times with enemies popping out to kill you within an unreactable period of time with how fast your characters are moving. Platform layout readability also feels somewhat lackluster with a game throwing a difficult section at you with extremely little time to try and make sense of what you're supposed to do before the game kills you. And while I'm on the subject of things I didn't like, I felt like almost all of the animal buddies felt oddly stiff. None of them turn around very quickly and a lot of them are carbon copies of their DKC inspirations. I will say I greatly enjoyed the chameleon as it's ability was very unique and fun to zip around with, while its extra ability that basically functioned the same way as Tanooki Mario's statue transformation in SMB3 was a cool little extra thing that made me enjoy it more. The sections in these earlier levels aren't especially difficult in a vacuum, but they are difficult enough to a new player that a lot of the deaths when you're trying to learn them are very frustrating, because not only do you not get another quick shot at learning the difficult thing, you now have to re-do all the easy things you already know how to do over and over just to get a single shot at the thing you're trying to learn. All of that might sound harsh, but I do like the game. The reason for that is the final world in the game, the space world. This game basically turns into a Kaizo Mario rom hack in that world, teaching you very little while throwing extremely hard challenges at you. If you stick with this world and try to learn how to tackle each challenge you quickly realize you have far more control of your characters than you ever realized. A lot of people might have figured some of this stuff out already, but for me I only really knew about cancelling the turtle's ground pound with a dash and being able to jump out of it. Up to this point I did not realize you could do the piggyback and switching character functions out of the turtle's dash, even in the air. These two things open up the player's ability to move around significantly. This eureka moment in the space world was a very similar feeling to when Celeste teaches you about the wavedash. Now, you might say, "You thought the earlier worlds in the game were mid cause they were too hard, yet you ended up liking the game cause the final world was so extremely difficult? That doesn't make sense!" My issue with the earlier worlds and me liking the later worlds isn't tied to their difficulties, I don't mind playing easy games or hard games as long as they are fun. My issue with the earlier worlds are they feel like they waste a lot of your time as you struggle to learn how to control the unruly nature of your characters. None of the levels feel particularly built around your character's strengths and they don't really force you to learn new things as you tackle each one. The difficult levels in the space world are extremely challenging but incredibly fun to learn, they usually have checkpoints right in front of difficult obstacles so you can try again and again without feeling like you're wasting too much time doing easy stuff, and most importantly to me they are all built incredibly well around each of the character's abilities. You're not going to cheese them (often) by refusing to learn new stuff and just doing what you learned in the easier worlds isn't going to get you by. To me this game finally hit its stride when it was throwing difficult stuff at me, building its levels well around its character's abilities, and challenging the player without wasting too much of their time, and almost all of that happened mostly just in the final world for me. The game isn't bad in those earlier worlds to me, it's just alright, but it truly shines in the space world, as long as you're willing to learn some really difficult platforming. Learning the difficult sections is the hard part, once you learn them you'll be able to hit them fairly consistently. For example, the level Windswept took me over 6 hours to beat. I missed one collectible in it, and beat it again in 45 minutes to get the collectible. Then there's Windswept EX, which is just a harder version of Windswept, which only took me 2 hours to beat, even after realizing I skipped two collectibles halfway in and had to restart the level to go back and get them. Learning the levels in the space world is really hard, then once you've got it down it's so satisfying to zip around and breeze through some of these insane-looking sections. I'm rambling too much now about how much I liked the last world in this game, I think the devs really nailed that part of the game, which made the weaker parts of the game worth it in my eyes. To me this game is a 6/10 in the base game and an 8/10 if you power through every single level. Good stuff!

This game is old school in good ways and bad. It's got solid music, it's adorable, almost every level has a new idea, and there's roll jumping! However, too often it's just a little too unforgiving to me to the point that I got so frustrated and stopped playing. The bad eventually outweighed the good as I got to harder and harder levels.