Sanabi

This is a "yes, but..." recommendation. Make sure you like platforming and swinging. The game starts so charming and colorful. Fantastic pixel art. Great warm fuzzy feelings in the tutorial area. Then they crush all your warm fuzzy feels flat with dark and gloom. Motivation and story telling. Okay. That's fine. The game is gritty and dark for a long while, which is fine, but it also feels a bit slow to progress through the next third or half of the game, to me. Each area adds complexity, but the huge panoramas of most of the play space have a sparseness that doesn't add interest or improve that slow feeling. The last half or so picks up though, and the end positively speeds thru at a crazy pace that is satisfying with its claw arm swings, robot crushing impacts, and speedy dashes. The ending, while still rather gloomy on the whole, is very heartwarming and well animated.

I got this game on sale even though I've never played a pixel game before. Man I was amazed at how good it is. It's a fast paced, story rich, Spider man swinging game that really shines with its story and depth. It was an amazing experience and it's crazy how emotional i got from a pixelated game.

An enjoyable platformer - Challenging at times but that felt more because of unpolished gameplay. Story is quite enjoyable but quite tropy while the soundtrack is absolutely stellar. The amount of dialogue and its pacing really tested my patience after an hour of playing or so. I enjoy dialogue to get immersed and get the story, but it takes such an awful amount of time to get through each scene with all the unnecessary pauses and unimportant dialogue. The English localisation leaves much to be desired at times as well. But, there's a good yet unpolished game here none the less.