Rift Racoon

I bought this a while ago on a whim, played through the first couple worlds, and put it down. Now I'm trying to 100% it and have determined that this is just a miserable game. The controls feel sluggish and clunky, the hitboxes on hazards feel bigger than the moon, and the game clearly expects tight, precision gameplay but does not make it clear when things should be done. For example, you need to teleport past a circular saw blade. The blade is coming towards you and your teleport travels a fixed distance. It is not obvious to tell when one should teleport, and you will instead run face-first into whirling death, or teleport directly on top of whirling death. I am halfway through re-doing all the levels on hard mode, and even with all of that practice I still cannot reliably teleport past moving hazards, a basic maneuver expected, but not accommodated, by the game. Dying will feel consistently unfair and stupid, and mid-level checkpoints to lock in progress across difficult sections will completely disappear by the mid-to-late game. Good luck.

A pleasant little 2D platformer. Keys respond well. The concept is simple just movement, jump and dash but fun and challenging to play. You need to hit special blocks that look like bulbs to jump again, later in the game you have to chain several of them together to clear larger gaps. Also when you’re in the purple jelly you can’t dash, you have to use the little bit of extra height or momentum you get from climbing onto the edge of a block to cross certain gaps. I managed to finish World 3 and got a shiny achievement, I don’t think it’s because other players aren’t good enough it mostly like other people didn’t realize you can gain a bit of height by climbing onto an edge. I think Dev should add a hint, but since this is a 2019 game Idk if they still care. I recorded my World 3-15 walkthrough aka the last map in World 3 in case it helps another player, right now I didn't find any walkthrough except the first world anywhere. It’s not a perfect run, some levels can be completed more quickly if you take damage. Anyway, I got stuck at World 4-3. I stepped on all the green bulbs on the lower floor without taking damage and tried to create a path to the right, but when I got there, the bulbs wouldn’t light up so there was no way to continue. If you read this and have completed it, I’d appreciate it if you let me know how even 100 years from now. All in all, this is a nice little game. I had fun, and for the price I think it’s worth a try. My curator page https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3707535931

This was gonna be a thumbs-down at first, so consider this more of a thumbs-sideways. My first playthrough was so frustrating because of the diamonds, so much that I was dreading replaying this on Hard Mode... but I actually enjoyed that second playthrough quite a bit! My biggest fear was that Hard Mode was just gonna go the "cheap" way of removing checkpoints and that was gonna be it, but I was surprised to discover that no, it is actually exciting. So props to the dev for actually adding a creative modifier to levels, and they become fun to play when you no longer have to worry about the diamonds.