TL;DR WaveLand is lovely, challenging, and a successful loveletter to Melee movement Below is a somewhat wordy review: Concept: I have a deep love of Super Smash Brothers Melee, and Logan Foster brings the unique spacing manuever "Wavedashing" into a world of platforming. After experiencing Melee movement and microspacing I found myself desiring these options in other games as well, so I had high hopes and bought WaveLand on release. Gameplay: Within minutes I approved of the game's physics and movement. Mr. Foster tuned his level design splendidly with the beast he had constructed. The input buffering and hitboxes all feel precise. The potential for optimization and speed in WaveLand is massive and addicting. Several times I could not make myself leave a level until I was #1 on the leaderboard. After introducing the concept, no time is wasted in ramping up the difficulty, and similar to Melee, WaveLand might be treacherous for the casual gamer. Those hungering for a chal...

I first saw this game when it was a kickstarter title and was interested in it Now that I've finally got to play it I can definitely say this game would be good If it wasn't omnidirectional This game is based off the air dodge system in Melee, and I am an avid melee player, and this game is simply too inaccurate for me. Wavelands and jumps don't respond, making the game's style element completely frustrating. In melee depending on where your control stick is, you can get a closer or farther wavedash, in this game, if your control stick is aiming mostly downwards and you angle it up slightly to be more towards down right, not even close to just the right input, the game will input that as a right input, completely messing up the wave dash or killing you. That small mechanic of the game inputing your control stick slide as a completely different direction completely ruins this game for me. This game being omnidirectional is fine, but the way is handles inputs as either Down right, or rig...

Really good, you dont need to have played melee and such to have fun with this game

Plain and simple, this is a joy to play for those interested in speedruns, going fast, and agile acrobatics. The versatility and possibilities in the movement is darn near perfection. Other than that, what you see is what you get - clean and clear visuals with a signature flair alongside a powerful OST. The level design is fun and unique, with the hub world just as nice as each level included in it, and the atmosphere, while very cryptic, is interesting and inviting. Even with the abundance of references to Melee both from players and the game itself, I actually felt it played a lot like a spiritual successor to Dustforce, another speedrunning platformer which is amazing, obviously with a few key differences. I've played my own large share of many Smash Bros. games, but I was never interested in the intricacies of high level movement. Given all of the time spent in those games and a large number of other platformers, speedrun-ny or otherwise, this game still feels like it has a l...

Really fun game. Speedrunning platformer based around an airdash. Simple to understand, hard to master, very enjoyable. Played beta and this didn't dissapoint. Edit (Oct 2020): Its og Celeste

This game controls well, is relatively intuitive, and a lot of fun.

I would like this game more if you could map your jump key and movement up key as the same.

i wish wavedashing were real

I love the idea of a platformer focused on speedrunning, but the main movement mechanic is so uncomfortable and awkward. Basically, you have to rapidly alternate between mashing left trigger and A to move quickly. It's awkward, unintuitive, and will give you hand cramps. Not for me :(

this game is actually just amazing. phenomenal movement and amazingly designed levels, it really is a treat the community is small but somewhat active, even if records aren't being improved all too often seriously my favourite game of all time, and for this price? just buy it