11 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 123.9 hrs on record (128.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jun 30, 2013 @ 1:46pm
Updated: Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:33pm

Fly'n is a beautiful game and in this context beautiful is referring to the visuals of the game. No matter how you look at the game and even if you don't like platformers you have to admit that the complete game is looking fantastic.

The story is told fast: A hairdryer called Dyer is attacking the world trees in order to rob their energy the "Helys". To prevent this, the world trees have created the buds to stop Dyer polluting the trees even more.

Fly'n is a platformer. You are trying to reach the top of the different trees and fight the specific world boss there. Every world consist of 7 levels plus one boss level and three bonus level (exception is the last world with only one bonus level) so there is a lot to do and the game is gradually getting harder. You have four different buds and every bud has its own special ability. Fly'n can sing and activate the Helys and revive the inhibitants of Helica, Lyft can stick to any (unpolluted) surface and crawl on them, Ywok can transform to a ball and bounce around and Nyls can propel himself (up to three times). And all Buds can jump, double-jump and glide. You can not change the buds freely everywhere, only in the specific checkpoints which is a good thing because you don't have to think too much with whom you have to solve a specific part of the level. Additional to all the abilites the buds can also change between two visions which may make different parts of the level solid and/or accessible.

As for the difficulty: If you only try to reach the exit it should only need patience since you may die as often as you "wish" and you will restart from the last checkpoint. But you should notice that the game has been tagged as "hard" so keep that in mind. It may look cute but you need to know what you are doing. For those looking for a higher challenge there are different options: You may try to "complete" the levels which means you explore more and collect all the Helys and pollen which are hidden. If you are still not satisfied you can try to play the levels without dying. And for the motivated there are the Leaderboards where you can compare your points to the rest of the playership.

All in all I think I can't recommand this game enough. I bought the game on release day and never regretted it. I put more than 100 hours into this game which says a lot. The buds are lovable and each world has a different beautiful design. If you like platformers you have little to no reason to not buy and play Fly'n. All this is rounded up with a beautiful soundtrack which you can and should buy aswell.
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3 Comments
☽ Coraline Castell ☾ Aug 8, 2015 @ 12:17pm 
That's good to know, thank you! Also, it's okay to forget some of the game's mechanics (don't we all, all the time?). :geosbutterfly:
Adelion Aug 8, 2015 @ 4:30am 
Thanks. Glad that you liked it. I noticed that there is missing information so a small but maybe important addition: You don't have all the buds at the beginning, you get a new one at the beginning of each world (except 5). So for the first world you will only play Fly'n.

Also there are two or three cheaters which takes several topspots in the leaderboards (you can identify those easily if they have more than 300 collected pollen or more than 4 blue orbs, although there is one level you can legimately get 5 orbs) but for most people this shouldn't change much. It may be a problem for speedrunners.
☽ Coraline Castell ☾ Aug 7, 2015 @ 5:34pm 
Awesome review! Thanks for giving me the link to it on steam gifts! You write very well and certainly made me want to check out the game even more (:

Cheers! :geosbutterfly: