Tag: Platformers

This Is Not A Review: Shu

Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.

The subject of this installment: Shu, developed Coatsink Games and published by Secret Lunch.

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Owlboy Review

Such Great Heights

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HIGH The visuals, the dialog, the limitless flying… pretty much everything.

LOW Yep, the final boss is awful.

WTF Unlockable hats… which fall off when Otus gets hit once.


Seasons After Fall Review

Spoiler: It’s Winter

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HIGH The lovely hand-painted visuals.

LOW Nearly every plot McGuffin being a floating orb of light.

WTF It’s the rare game that acknowledges the impossibility of jumping out of water.