Month's End Update: March!

Just a really short update (only one game) as I haven’t had a ton of free time lately and the time I have had I’ve been using to play Magic: The Gathering. xD

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• The Way
  

  11 hours playtime

  22 of 29 achievements

The Way

The Way is a sidescrolling puzzle platformer as well as occasionally a shooter and briefly a bullet … heck (it’s too easy to be deserving of hell). It has a pixel art style that I found to be very pleasing to the eye, though it does interfere with one or two of the puzzles in that you can’t quite tell what you’re supposed to be looking at. Most of the puzzles are well designed, excluding the one or two I just mentioned as well as another one in which it’s necessary to be able to see the entire puzzle, but you can’t and you have to basically keep trying and adding on commands until it works and is more time consuming than anything else. The controls feel a bit off for a platformer and I never quite got used to the jumping, though no section is so difficult that I couldn’t get through it (though usually with some deaths). The end level (and especially the final boss) really disappointed me, up to that point most of the game was trying to puzzle out a solution to advance, but the last level essentially throws that away and makes it into a shooter with the final boss being the bulletheck part. The story basically amounts to your wife dying for some reason and you searching an alien planet that you believe holds the secret to immortality. Both endings you’re given are about the tone that you would expect given the setup and I felt satisfied with how they played out. There’s also an end of credits scene that hints at something far larger going on and seems to be hinting at a sequal that I would love to play. So I recommend picking this one up if you can.