Neither Day nor Night

At the time of writing I'm past the first boss. It took me 6 hours cause I've been playing in chunks and doing things with the game minimized inbetween. The fact that the overall score is mostly negative makes no sense to me. This is a good game. And I am highly critical of janky games. NDNN is like Dark Souls. I don't mean in the meme sense that it is hard. I mean that your actions have weight to them and you have to think before you act, and actually put effort in. You can't BS your way through a challenge. A badly timed roll or attack can be severely punished, and that's by design. The game is actually very tight despite the motion tween puppet animation style that has become largely associated with janky 2005-2014 era flash games. I am quick to rage when I perceive a death as unfair or have to deal with unreal engine physics jank that sucks the fun out of a game, because I see it as just the game wasting my time for no good reason or being jank and broken due to careless programmi...

I impulse bought this game and was not impressed by it. The controls feel so slippery and inconsistent in a game that has insta-kill bullshit flying everywhere, and I'm only three levels in? Not great. The writing isn't clever enough to keep me invested, either. If it gets better, or if there's some sort of bug going on, let me know with a comment or, but seriously, for a "precision platformer," this feels really unpolished.

I want to like this game, but the instakill bees are everywhere. It's not fun. Also, why does this game lag so much? I know my computer is a potato, but it should still run a game like this no problem.

A challenging and sometimes rather frustrating game. However, it is also pretty fun and the sense of achievement you gain from passing each challenge is well worth the struggle. If you like 2D platformers and are a masochist that likes games that could count as a mental form of torture, then you will likely enjoy this game. It's basically 2D dark souls in terms of difficulty (as in you sometimes have to practice over and over to eventually succeed.) Also the art and music in this game are beautiful.

Complicated controls to do simple things ? Instadeath bees ? Nah.