Nintendo Switch Critic Reviews

This game performs well as a 2D platformer. It feels like a mix of Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog with the Shadow Core feature added into it. With your friend Stryx, you will attempt to save the dark world of Numbra from whatever comes your way. You will lose yourself in hours of gameplay and platformer fun.

Light Fall swiftly finds a spot among all the other Switch hardcore 2D platforming greats by offering not only a quality game wrapped in a beautifully unique atmosphere, but by successfully providing the player with a plot and characters that are worth investing, making the game very hard to set aside until you complete the tiny shadow-being quest.

Light Fall is a good game, it offers up a lot for speed runners, including a time trial mode, however the main quest is too short. While the game is quite challenging, with the last section proving to be the most difficult, you will fail a lot, but with the fast respawn time and precision platforming needed, it’s a challenge that I enjoyed and if you like a good challenge, you will too.

If you aren’t going to speedrun or discover the secrets hidden away, the game won’t last long, but I still urge you to buy it, explore it and test yourself on some of the harder elements to be found.

Light Fall is a 2D side-scrolling platform game that will take us to the beautiful world of Numbra. With a fascinating story, a dazzling design, and a splendid sound, Light Fall is a challenge of concentration and ability to totally complete it.

Light Fall blends some neat new platforming ideas with an unforgiving difficulty in places. Don't expect to complete it unless you want to spend time and effort getting some real practice in.

Light Fall is a very solid adventure, well designed and quite enjoyable. It’s a little bit short and not particularly challenging, but if you’re ok with this, you have a great game here.

Even in its brevity, Light Fall is a great 2D platformer that succeeds by just feeling right. Your hero feels fluid and in the moments where it all clicks, you essentially dance across the screen. It’s just all over rather quickly. I like Light Fall a whole lot and I could have stood for some more of it, maybe with some less spaced-out checkpoints and a less disappointing finale. As it stands, it’s good game that ends a little too soon.

Light Fall is as pretty as it is dark, and with a few new ideas well fitted into older mechanics. It might be a little too difficult sometimes, but it's a 2D platformer with a story worth playing through.

Light Fall draws you in with its stylistic visuals and the promise of a new twist on a classic formula. Creating your own platforms is fun, but Bishop Games didn’t develop this gimmick into a meaningful series of mechanics. As it stands, Light Fall is a handful of interesting ideas that are missing the elements they need to really shine.