2 Reviews:
Wolsk
5 rooms of +1 style platforming. There are 10 "curses" that affect the screen/player that are randomly applied on each transition for a total of 50 "screens." In case you're curious what the exact curses are: timed platforming, reversed controls, forced movement, zoomed in screen, buffed needle, bleeding Kid, Catharsis water, sometimes invisible Kid, blood covering the screen, and ice physics with bad collision order. None of these are inherently bad on their own (minus the ice physics because the collision order I believe makes screen 3 have a required cancel), but with them all together it becomes a horrible mess that gets increasingly more frustrating every time you finish a room.
The real problem with the game is that you can softlock very easily. When entering a new screen, the warp sets the Kid's spawn position to somewhere in the bottom left, and if you do not save before dying (or resetting), then you are stuck there. Although I strongly recommend doing exactly that on screen 3 because you can use it to skip every screen by spawning next to the warp repeatedly. Screens 1, 2, and 5 are fine, but 3 is awful without the save-warp skip, and screen 4 is probably awful without re-rolling until you get Catharsis water so that you can skip most of the platforming and go straight for the warp on the first jump. I also think the timed platforming curse either doesn't show up or just doesn't work at all on screen 4.
It is moderately enjoyable and far more fun with using skips, but I wouldn't at all recommend this game due to the difficulty and the fact that it feels like it never ends.
[3] Likes
The real problem with the game is that you can softlock very easily. When entering a new screen, the warp sets the Kid's spawn position to somewhere in the bottom left, and if you do not save before dying (or resetting), then you are stuck there. Although I strongly recommend doing exactly that on screen 3 because you can use it to skip every screen by spawning next to the warp repeatedly. Screens 1, 2, and 5 are fine, but 3 is awful without the save-warp skip, and screen 4 is probably awful without re-rolling until you get Catharsis water so that you can skip most of the platforming and go straight for the warp on the first jump. I also think the timed platforming curse either doesn't show up or just doesn't work at all on screen 4.
It is moderately enjoyable and far more fun with using skips, but I wouldn't at all recommend this game due to the difficulty and the fact that it feels like it never ends.
Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 70 70
Sep 9, 2021