Below The Ocean

This is a wonderful little game :)

Below the Ocean is a bite sized platformer with some brilliant new ideas, great level design and tight controls. The style being cute, the sound effects/music being lovely, the length being just right, everything loads quickly/straight and the achievements being fine almost make this game perfect. The parts that I didn’t like were the checkpoint system and how some of the gems were hidden in very mean ways (the game’s collectible). Some checkpoints were temporary (if you die while playing, you return there) and some were permanent (you can quit the game and continue later). There are achievements to complete the chapters without dying, trying to reload saves often meant that you have to retry too many sections because there weren’t enough permanent checkpoints. Other than that, I highly recommend the game to fans of the genre. The 4 chapters can be finished very quickly but trying to complete them without dying and finding everything took me around 3.5 hours. The price of €5 ...