Arise: A Simple Story

100% oh so touching cliché. The art design is minimalistic but beautiful (though simply not my type). The story is minimalistic and cliché (and also not my type). The gameplay is okay but lacks precise controls. The music is rather generic piano/strings music supposed to create emotions in a rather dull way.

One of the few games I gave up on relatively quickly due to the awkward, imprecise, clunky controls and nonsensical, annoying camera angles. The camera angles cannot be changed, nor can the keyboard controls. The result is a platformer with climbing and jumping passages where you often jump into nothingness off-screen, miss your target or slip to your death even from low heights, forcing you to try many passages over and over again. I quickly found this boring and tedious. That's a shame, because I thought the presentation of the game was beautiful and some of the mechanics were interesting. I really love short, narrative and emotional games but this game quickly turned from fun into frustration for me.

it is an incredible beautiful game with a very emotive theme, it is a feeling journey, like Gris or Neva, dont expect Mario bros, this is for the soul.

the game mechanic is cool and the ending nearly made me cry, but the controls can be so infuriating to the point where i didn't really have fun playing, and you also can't skip the cutscenes when replaying levels

The game plays with time, weather and light in a way that I haven't seen before. That also means the controls are unlike most games, which -for me as a self-proclaimed sucky gamer- leads to many deaths. But fortunately, dying doesn't do much so no biggie. I like it, I enjoy being an old slow backpainy dude who falls on his ass and grabs his back after the slightest physical strain. Even though I am not an old backpainy dude, I can relate. I am more affected by some of the story than I would like to be, it grazes mental health and it's done very effectively. That leads me to be even slower in my progress than anyone would think possible, but -as I said- I am a sucky gamer and am fine with my level of suckiness. Does this review help? Probably not, but I enjoy it and I think most people in the puzzle platform universe would.

This is such a cute game. I wish they would allow you to remap your keys, (I have an AZERTY keyboard). But it's well worth finishing, even for someone who generally doesn't like (and is bad at) platformers.

Beautiful.

Emotional, Heartbreaking, and Beautiful Cozy Game. I enjoy short games like this to beat over a few days with my wife.

beautiful game

Relaxing game.