July

I’ve beat Castle of Illusion (lacking only 1 achievement) in 3,5h. So I say it’s super short.

I’d say it’s easy, surely way easier than Ori and Blind Forest. At least for me ; D

It’s quite short, and quite easy, even for people who aren’t good at platformer games. I’m mediocre, I often have a hard time to land difficult jumps, but I did manage to beat Ori and the Blind Forest on Hard, so I guess my platformer skills are decent enough. This game has five different worlds, with two levels plus one boss per world, an each level/boss is able to beat in about 2-3 minutes each, so for someone who’s really good at platforming, it would be possible to speedrun this game in a bit over 30 minutes probably.

It has a pretty good system to go back and pick up the things you missed on the first playthrough, and make different choices, to get 100% of the things. For some of the collectibles I was missing after my first playthrough, I used a guide. I played the main game on Hard, then on easy for collecting the missing stuff.

The game wasn’t too hard until the last boss and the few battles leading up to it. Then it was frustrating, and I had to retry several times. I guess it would be possible to 100% it in 11-12 hours for someone who is a bit more skilled and doesn’t miss collectibles the first time.

By trying several times, over and over again. Using powers almost all the time when fighting the “minions”, and learning the patterns of the boss. This video helped a bit with the strategy.

Thanks :)

I feel bad for almost beating the final boss at my first attempt :/ Got to the last attack (where you have to dodge two different attacks at the same time), but only had one “hitpoint” left then, so I didn’t manage to beat it. Then I had some bad luck and needed several attempts before getting all the way through.

The second to last level (Castle 2) was what gave me the most trouble, especially the water part.

The climb up to the last boss wasn’t fun either, but I started that level with 5 hitpoints and managed to make it all the way without dying once, I was kind of lucky there. And very nervous at the end, with only one hitpoint left :D

Many of the achievements aren’t that tricky. I don’t have all the collectibles achievements, but I did collect all the peppers and playing cards. I found 4/5 of the peppers and 3/5 of the cards in my main playthrough, and then checked a guide and went back for the missing ones, that was quite quick!

The superbounce achievement wasn’t that difficult when trying in the right place. Still took me maybe 10 or so tries, but with maybe 30-40 seconds per try, it wasn’t that much time needed. I did it the same way as this guide

I played the game with a gamepad, I imagine that helped me a lot compared to if I would have been playing with a keyboard.