My positives

• The chiptune soundtrack used during the game is pretty nice, a bit repetitive, but nice; looking at the local files of the game, these aren't original music that was made for the game, there are from a music composer named Vibe/CRC, who released the album "Essential Chiptunes" on 2008. The files have metadata that shows link pointing to https://silentowl.bandcamp.com/ - for which there is an album page being https://silentowl.bandcamp.com/album/essential-chiptunes - which even the page explicitly mentions the name of the game that uses said songs, most of them from the album.
  
• The amount of obstacles to face, equipment to use, and bosses to defeat keeps it feel from feeling too dull, as they feel novel without overstaying their welcome.

My negatives

• There are levels that are determined by luck more than skill when trying to finish them; starting on level 5, you are introduced with brown boulders that fall down onto the bridge at random that harm the player upon just touching them, including the fragments of the boulders. Due to not being able to turn around in that level and only jump while moving forward, the lack of control due to relying on luck makes it feel less satisfying when finishing them, these unsatisfactory feelings worsen when focusing on collecting 3 green treasure chests on such troublesome luck-based levels. The following levels are considered to be luck-based overall: level 5, 14, 16, 18, 21, 26, 29, 35, 44, and 49. Out of 63 levels, 10 them are luck-based levels and they stand out in comparison.
  
• Board signs that have a blinking exclamation mark during the levels cannot be reread again; I can understand not being able to have the text pop up to interrupt the gameplay again, since you already read the text when first encountering them, but there is no way to be able to re-read them besides having to create a new save file to get to that level to be able to re-read the text. This seems to be a minor thing, but I enjoy reading through the text and accidentally skipping it makes me feel bad when I missed out.
  
• The volume strength for music and sound effects when setting it to 33% is too loud especially when wearing a headset microphone; excluding muting, there are three being 33%, 66%, and 100%. There is no way to lower it down further while still being able to hear the audio without having to adjust the volume at a computer system level.
  
• There are no Steam achievements to keep track and validate how much I played through the game

My eehs/neutral feelings

• In the options menu, the typeface and color scheme can be changed; I didn't try them out after finishing the game, I guess it would be pretty neat for some form of replay value on seeing how the levels look like when it deivates from the original default settings.

Sadly, I honestly don't think I would recommend this overall to others, even within the puzzle platformer video game genre, mainly because of the luck-based parts of the game that don't feel good to play through when encountering them, since you spend more time than necessary to finish them through. The people who made the game and the levels appear to have realized this since the some of the later half of the levels, there is some control over the obstacles to overcome and bosses to defeat that are normally luck-based, by being able to perform actions to dodge from being harmed. Level 64 can't be finished since it's the end screen, saying there will be more levels to come through updates; unfortunately, there hasn't been any more updates since then.

Top-notch runner/platformer. Very well-designed and creative; Lots of variety in the levels; Quite challenging and frustrating at times but always interesting and I never had the urge to quit (maybe my wife would have preferred that I did during a couple of the stages near the end). The boss stages were all fun and actually less challenging than the rest of the game (always a welcome reprieve). My only complaints relate to the random events (these can often, though not always, be overcome by tinkering with the player's speed in options) and the lack of achievements, but I can get over that. Those issues aside, this is honestly one of the best games I've played recently, and I've been blasting through a huge chunk of my backlog lately. Great game, devs!

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If you like calculator-style games, with exploration, puzzle-solving and action, this game is for you. Simple, but quite interesting.

Enjoyable graphics and music aside, the game lacks any kind of momentum in movement and the fact you can't control your forward movement compounds problems that wouldn't exist otherwise. Having to slow the game speed via the options to make level 26 feasible? Not good. The game is also hilariously short to boot. It's got a lot of unique qualities, it's a shame that some of those are what make it not fun.

I almost recommend this game. Almost!

I like the graphics, it's ASCII-Art imitation of a text-based display, but with smooth movement outside the grid (which means it's clearly not a text-based display, but also means smoother visuals).

The gameplay is one button: start moving, and then jump. Your character (or, dare I say, 3x3 grid of characters!) moves automatically to the right, and can climb stairs if you jump onto them, and switches direction (lef/right) upon hitting the arrows. Thus, the levels are half puzzle (figure out how to traverse the level with such limited controls) and half reaction (I must press jump at the right time). These restrictions make the gameplay quite interesting.

However, the game falls apart at later levels, where you either need perfect reactions or a lot of luck. Let me give some examples (minor spoilers):

- 26: Random deadly objects fall from the sky, but thankfully random clouds move horizontally to protect you. However, you move too fast, you will out run those clouds, and die. And die. And die. Until you realize that you can change the movement speed in the options screen. (WTF!)

- 31: You have to jump perfectly in a tight space to leave enough holes to let some debris fall through, while leaving enough floor for you to jump on. Then you have to hope the random-ish nature of the physics simulation will not leave any debris in the path. Then you have to execute perfect jumps. Well, that's what I believe is the solution, and I watched a video of someone playing this level many times trying to perfect the movement. The person had more patience and more luck than me: I gave up.

It's a shame, I mostly liked the game, but some terrible levels ruined my enjoyment.

The simplicity of game mechanics is absolute (you literally only have one action button) but the gameplay is deep and diverse.
The level design is amazing, the graphics is beautiful. Relaxing music balances the hardcore nature of the game's puzzles (and yes, it also means you will die a lot). The latter is not a big problem because each level is compact and can be replayed / completed quickly once you figure out the logic.
Highly recommended!

Good

The ASCII art and overall conceit of the game were enjoyable, however the inclusion of random-pattern obstacles/enemies in a game where you have little to no control over forward motion was a grave mistake. Roughly 1/5th of the levels require good luck or brute forcing to complete due to your survival being partially at the whim of some randomly patterned element. Additionally, it is rather short for the price. I completed the game in about 3 hours despite the random based frustrations for a few levels.

Too simple. Music is too loud. Graphic choices are bad, for example the fire on the ground that kills you, which has the same graphics as torches on walls that you can safely pass through.