Classic "Jump and dump" game!

Wishing there was a neutral option, but leaning more towards not liking this game than liking it, so not recommended will have to do.

Octahedron, has an interesting mechanic where you can create temporary platforms under your character in order to traverse its levels. This builds into the platforming puzzles.

• Any given screen is a mess to look at. It is colourful and retro, but not very practical.
  
• First time playing through levels, it is difficult to understand what can and can't kill you. That's fine, trial and error isn't unusual for platformers however this is yet another visual design choice flaw, and you can end up confusing yourself as you progress and more mechanics are introduced
  
• The default keyboard controls are terrible, if you plan to play this make sure to change them. "Control" for jump instead of "space"? "Y" is to change platform type along with "X", have the developers never seen a keyboard before?
  
• Speaking of controls, this character controls poorly, feels sluggish to balance the platform mechanic, and sometimes platforms are created slightly below the character, which doesn't seem like an issue until you try to create a platform and quickly jump, thus not being able to jump due to not being on a surface (this is hell for least time challenges)
  
• Challenges are not too difficult, but the least time challenges are hell. If you want to complete those, good luck, as they are are beyond unbalanced, you must play perfectly, no room for error at all. You will frequently find yourself failing by a few seconds because of this.

The only thing I can say I like is that the gameplay is somewhat interesting, but that's about it... I boot up this game every once in a while, with the intent of getting all the achievements, because that appears to be the most enjoyment I am getting out of this.

• Music is meh, nothing stellar and nothing I haven't heard before. It's bordering on generic.
  
• There isn't really a story, a man is sucked into a strange world, and is trying to progress (honestly the intro is so forgettable, that I sometimes forget that it even happened). So you just kind of progress through the levels, and the only real motivation is just to challenge yourself.

Overall a 5/10, it's not terrible or unplayable, but it could be better. I may have got it on sale, but the full price is hard to justify.

awful

there's no reason to do this to yourself

https://youtu.be/mq8vxjebB-M

Audio and Visual style is top notch but there is just something misaligned between the level design and gameplay to keep the game flowing a good pace.

This game is way too hard for me. I don't have the patience for it.

As much as I wanted to like this game, I cannot bring myself to recommend this to anyone. This game's art style is very nice to look at, but I find it difficult to notice safe platforms from obstacles at times. Also, I can't seem to click with this game's type of difficulty for some reason.

If anyone else enjoys this game, more power to you! But I don't really like this game at all.

This game hates epilepics

Octahedron is an ugly retro 2D minimalist neon platformer with a terrible electronic music soundtrack. Control some stick figure with an octahedron head because whatever. This is why developers really need to hire artists.

While there is support for 4K, it's hard to tell because the awful minimalist graphics don't really provide much in the way of discernable expression. Gameplay is pretty bad too. The price tag of $15.50 for a crappy retro platformer is just a joke, but I guess Squeenix thought their brand would let them get away with it. But as the saying goes, their brand doesn't make the game better, the game makes their brand worse.

This game started out very promising, but by the third level you can already see what this game devolves into - precision platforming without the controls to back it up. My favourite!

The premise of Octahedron is that you control your neon character through a visually appealing world, with blinking backgrounds fitting to the beat and plenty of stuff to collect. The gimmick is that you can summon platforms to appear under you to reach higher areas; you can also surf on those platforms for a short time before they disappear.

Now the problem is: this game has several medals you can earn for each level; one for collecting everything, one for only using a certain amount of platforms, one for completing it under a specific amount of time and so on. Especially the time medals are very frustrating to get with the controls of this game. If you just summon a platform under you while jumping, instead of just immediately being glued to that platform and able to jump (which would make the controls 100 % better), you are still stuck in the air for the fraction of a second before landing on said platform. It makes precision jumping a nightmare because you have to factor in the delay of you being in the air before your feet land on the platform, and with the amount of platforms you have to summon in quick succession, you are bound to mess up somewhere; especially considering you HAVE to do everything perfectly to even have a chance at the time medals.

The visuals of the game are also waaaay overblown. By the third level, there are already so many obstacles on the screen that are out to hurt you that mesh with the blinking background and the overbearing amount of visual effects - it is very hard to follow what is going on.

Long story short, the amount of patience needed for this game is just not for me. Everything visually meshes with each other in the worst way, and the platforming is clunky and delayed. Maybe it gets better later on, but I did not get past the third level.