DandyManchot

Fast, fun, smart, cheeeful and glitterind, a true wonder of a platformer, effortlessly reaching the heights of its obvious inspirations, yeah, the ones with a red cap andblue plumber trousers.

Starling and unique expérience. Played on PS5, surprinsigly the game crashed several times when launched, had to quit and launch it again. Nothing to be afraid of.

A pure wonder of a puzzle game. It takes a little while to really settle in, but then the magic starts to operate and you just can’t stop exploring and scrapping on your notebook the most unlikely combinations of shapes, letters, figures,.. you keep jumping from a riddle to another, never solving them in the order you had imagined at first, and always with a massive satisfaction when you finally manage to unlock that door or crack that code that has been driving you nuts for hours. Everytime you begin to think you’re stuck, there’s always a little something new to pop in your mind, and there you go again chasing the next hint. Brilliant ideas show up at every corner of the obviously Resident Evil-inspired mansion, but in which zombies have been replaced by abstract visions and cryptic characters. And yet, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, despite all these game design qualities, would probably be just another pleasant puzzle game, if at some points, hidden in the shadows of love, death, time and art, the faceless poetry of this masterpiece didn’t strike by surprise. Another magic trick, and all the exhaustion caused by the efforts you put in frying your brains, vanishes into thin air. Little by little, the atmosphere of mystery, quite casual and overplayed at first, gets more and more sincere, meaningful, and the strange world you boarded in becomes yours, until the perfectly executed and heartfully moving conclusion. Don’t miss this game !

Very smart and creative Metroidvania, with a mind blowing atmosphere despite the quite basic pixel art style. It can be very challenging at some points, especially during tricky platform sessions. Yet the game is incredibly immersive and succeeds in telling a lot without talking, unveiling lovely mysteries throughout the way. Definitely a must-play.