Games

Warning: very mild spoilers for early game

Animal Well is a new 2d platformer by the renown youtuber Donkey. It got good reviews so I decided to download it. But I find it really difficult. It is a bit like a meteoidvania in the sense that it is set in a single large world and access to areas is gated by the need abilities/items acquired by progressing the game. But I get lost so often it is really frustrating. I'm really bad with directions in general which is probably why. I got to a part where I couldn't jump high enough to get on a ledge and also a large beautiful kangaroo beat the shit out of me. I went there again after I died but the kangaroo was somehow gone. I think that's a bug for sure. I did some pro gamer shenanigans with the disk item to reach the ledge and went ahead. What's bothering me is that I don't know if the game expected me to do the disk shenanigans or if the I was supposed to acquire some other ability/item before proceeding. After a while, I am stuck again and this doubt is gnawing at my mind.

Anyways the game looks and plays well. Just wanted to talk about my frustrations. Thanks for reading.