• Sideway
  

  6 hours playtime

  5 of 10 achievements

when i bought the groupees be mine bundle the art style of sideway intrigued me, but i don’t think i knew much about it going into it. had a little trouble getting started because the keyboard controls were strange (played with a controller instead and that worked much better), and then the first boss fight was almost impossible because my character was moving slow until i locked the framerate to 30. from then on it was a nice progression of gaining new abilities and finding my path through the levels.

it features an interesting mechanic when you’re on the flat rooftop of a building in that the way you enter the roof from a wall determines which way is down while on the roof. you can often change it by exiting and re-entering the roof from a different side. i think that’s what it means by “puzzles” so i wouldn’t expect a puzzle game here.

even with my controller, jumps often felt like they were slightly too high and i could barely make them. it felt a little sluggish in general but for the most part i didn’t have to be precise anyway. it supports a second player in local co-op that i didn’t try and probably won’t. if you also have this game hanging out in your library it’s probably worth the few hours it takes to play through it once. it said “to be continued” at the end but i don’t think they ever continued it…