a good and surprisingly touching co-op platformer

TL;DR Story falls flat, level design is tedious and blatant lack of content warnings

Where to start with this game.

Flimsy storytelling that clearly wants you to feel something for these characters but ultimately falls short of the mark, instead providing a narrative that manages to be both predictable and tedious, with long-winded cutscenes (this game is in dire need of a skip button) and explanations that are either bafflingly obtuse or painfully obvious for random pieces of world-building that ultimately go nowhere.

The gameplay itself is, ultimately, fine. The mechanics, while initially interesting very quickly manage to get tedious. This is in no small part due to some of the most unforgiving and strange controls from a puzzle platformer, especially from a game that initially markets itself as a cute co-op game. The level design equally very quickly becomes long-winded and tedious as opposed to being challenging and eventually satisfying puzzles which is what I would have expected from a game such as this.

Also, the content of the game stylistically is...certainly a choice in places. As mentioned above, initially marketing itself as a cute co-op game, this game has a reasonable amount of grotesque imagery (for what purpose is beyond me) and what would typically be considered to be triggering content with a questionable amount of apparent plot relevance, with no warnings to go alongside. While not a personal issue, this lack of content warnings is something I can imagine would upset a not insignificant amount of people.

When there are similar two-player co-op puzzle games out there that hit the mark they are aiming for and reach consistent highs throughout their runtime, play one of those. This game just isn't worth your time, as much as it tries to convince you it might be.

Beautiful art style and intriguing level design. The choice options were also a nice touch. Definitely recommend for friends!

Just hope your friend isn't a brainlet like mine.