I'll be honest, I bought this for the hype, played for about 10 minutes and thought 'yeah, I'm probably refunding this'. Played a bit more, just to see where would it take me. Suddenly, I was waaaay past the maximum playtime to refund. I didn't want to refund anymore.
One of my favorite things about metroidvanias is never really feeling stuck. Somehow, you just keep going forward. If you hit a wall, you try a different path and continue. Animal Well is so rewarding in this regard, giving you a permanent feeling of progression, with new puzzles all the time. It remixes its mechanics to make every challenge feel like a novelty, and it's SO GOOD at letting you find out its secrets. You're likely to find out how some of the tools you get work by sheer luck or accident, making challenges you skipped thinking you didn't have the tool click. These tools never really work the way you expect. More accurately, they always work in an extra way that you didn't expect.
Everything is framed in a gloomy atmosphere aided by visuals and audio.
This is a very good game!
One of my favorite things about metroidvanias is never really feeling stuck. Somehow, you just keep going forward. If you hit a wall, you try a different path and continue. Animal Well is so rewarding in this regard, giving you a permanent feeling of progression, with new puzzles all the time. It remixes its mechanics to make every challenge feel like a novelty, and it's SO GOOD at letting you find out its secrets. You're likely to find out how some of the tools you get work by sheer luck or accident, making challenges you skipped thinking you didn't have the tool click. These tools never really work the way you expect. More accurately, they always work in an extra way that you didn't expect.
Everything is framed in a gloomy atmosphere aided by visuals and audio.
This is a very good game!