Ameagari no Hanaby is a marvelously polished and adorable little platformer. Graphics are incredibly cute and colourful, animations are smooth, characters are well defined and varied and each different world has a great, varied theme. From the starting forest, to a giant Christmas tree, to a steamy sauna filled with bathing bunnies, level design is unique and memorable with plenty of exploration and secrets to find. There are a variety of nice, firework based attacks to blast enemies and assist with traversing levels, the entire game is like one big carnival fireworks show that's a reat treat to play through.

The sountrack is also stellar, fitting and thematic. Many of the tunes are quite catchy and it's tempting to buy the soundtrack for the pleasure of listening to them at leisure.

Control is of paramount importance in any platformer and there are no letdowns here. Movement and aiming are tight and fluid, momentum and physics are right on point. If it have any gripes it's that the control can be a little touchy at times, meaning you can pop in and out of the same door more than once, or end up talking to the same character a couple of times in a row, however this is in no way game breaking and is a trifling inconvenience in an otherwise fantastic game.

I can report that the game also has full english localization, kudo's to the Dev for the added extra work for his English speaking fans.

Levels can be replayed in the search for more secrets and to farm in game currency to buy extra moves and powerups in the various shops found in the levels. However the game is a little short and easy on the initial playthrough, only taking me two and a half hours to complete. This is remedied somewhat by the inclusion of a dedicated speedrun mode as well as an increased difficulty replay mode, so there's value for your money to be found in replays and this is the sort of game that's just right for it.

So in this day and age of deliberate difficulty, controversial design choices and vast quantities of gore it was a real pleasure to play a cute, relaxed and entertaining little platformer like this.

A gem among the indie games, Ameagari no Hanabi is a cute game where you play as a squirrel who wants to grow up and become a fireworks master! To do this, she sets off on an adventure to investigate a mysterious rain.

You will travel through 8 cute and colourful worlds in search of the cause of this rain, and new types of fireworks. Each firework is a new weapon that shoots in a different pattern. You can even hover in the air using fireworks! There are a lot of different types to discover and enjoy, making the combat in the game fun.

The visual style is one of the best I've seen. It features hand drawn 2D graphics and a lot of super cute character designs. On your journey you'll meet dogs, cats, foxes, and many more anthropomorphic animals who need your help. The

The one issue I have with this game is that it's pretty short for the asking price. While it is a high quality title, some more modes or levels would have justified the 20$ price tag. Also, any parents who might think this is a good game for their children to play from it's appearance should be aware that there is an area late in the game that involves a lot of sexually suggestive scenery that is not suitable for younger players.

I recommend Ameagari no Hanabi for it's cute characters and the way that it manages to stand out in the platformer genre. It's worth a look for sure!

One of my favorite games, for some reason. Hanaby is an action platformer with a story theme of growing up and a gameplay theme of fireworks. There are several different fireworks to use against enemies, currency to collect, and hidden health and star upgrades. Each firework uses stars: The more powerful the firework, the more stars it eats up.

This is not the game to get for only a single playthrough, as my first blind run was only about an hour and a half long. There are 8 worlds, but these are not full worlds, they're only levels. The main content here is the game's replayability. For each round you clear (new game+), you will take additional damage from every enemy and obstacle. By NG+8, everything in the game will 2 shot you, and by NG+15 everything is a 1 hit kill. Alongside this optional challenge (there’s an achievement for beating round 10), the game also has a built in speedrun mode. I normally don’t speedrun games, but this is one exception where I've always strived to get better times and had fun routing it out and discovering new things.

I think the single most important thing about Hanaby is the firework hover. This is done by using a handheld firework while airborne to slow your descent, and also leave a lingering hitbox below you. Just this one tech adds so much to the game - it gives you a fun movement option that also allows for skips and big time saves.

The graphics are colorful and bright, and the characters are cute. Most of the music will end up sticking with you too. Even the story, while underwritten, has grown on me. At $20 (it's down to $14 now), I wouldn’t recommend this game to someone looking for a lengthy experience, but I would recommend it if you’re a completionist and like replaying simple, but charming platformers.

Like I said, this game is one of my absolute favorites. There are VERY few players currently, and it's hard to say exactly why I love these games so much, but I hope more people can find them in the future.

This is a fairly great platforming game. The story of it is short, but not close to non-existent, and I find it amusing. Dialogues are funny, with a hint of adult humors, especially one level world where it's full of it (World 7). Gameplay is casually challenging, one in particular is the final boss, where it's near-impossible to beat without plenty of HP and MP upgrades, and numbers of weapons you will change very often during the battle.

Worth the money for casual gameplaying, up to the point where you have to fight the final boss... But, your mileage may vary.

Quick Edit: The "New Game+", where the difficulty increases by having the player taking more damage from enemies, is sort of, not for most players. Unless you like challenges, 1 game completion is enough.

If you've never heard of Ameagari no Hanaby ("Hanaby After the Rain"), I don't blame you. This fireworks-themed indie platformer is buried so deep in the Steam store that it's practically invisible, and I came across it by chance on the soundtrack composer's Bandcamp page. It's a shame Ameagari is so overlooked because while it's nothing revolutionary, it's a pleasant and charming way to spend a few hours.

You're Hanaby, squirrel girl and amateur pyrotechnician, on a quest to find what's causing endless rain to fall. (And also become an adult, I guess?) Your weapon of choice is a variety of fireworks, which you'll use to not only defeat enemies but also glide through the air. Levels are linear, but most have side paths with extra health and energy upgrades, as well as different types of fireworks to buy with coins gems "Rains" scattered throughout each level.

Controlling Hanaby feels good. Gliding while holding a sparkler underneath you is both fun and practical, since you can't just Goomba-stomp on enemies. Launching a skyrocket into a crowd of enemies and watching them disintegrate is satisfying, as is racing through a level holding a bottle rocket as everything in front of you melts. Hanaby's momentum after jumping off a moving platform can be a little finicky, but it's something you can get used to.

The biggest make-or-break point about Ameagari is its low difficulty. With frequent checkpoints and infinite lives, your first playthrough will be a breeze and won't take you more than two hours, even if you're thorough or a platforming beginner. The real difficulty lies in subsequent playthroughs, where you keep all your unlocked upgrades but take more damage with every loop you complete (to the point where by Round 15 everything is a one-hit kill). Take this as a warning: if you only plan on playing through Ameagari once, you might want to look elsewhere.

I love Ameagari's level design, but not in the way you'd expect. The platforming on its own didn't impress me much -- there's nothing inherently bad about it, but it's very simple and doesn't evolve much after the halfway point. There's very little enemy type diversity, and I didn't find any of the boss fights interesting or challenging (aside from the final boss, which rocks).

But where the level design shines is in its personality. Every level is designed like a little micro-world with its own history, amenities and landmarks, and unique NPC species. Platforming challenges are interspersed with towns and shops where you can take a breather and talk to the inhabitants. All of the environments are designed to be memorable and not just your stereotypical 2D platformer biomes. The desert world is home to a performing acrobatics troupe. The snow world has you facing off against a group of unruly students throwing snowballs. The sky world is run by dragon-like creatures that control the weather. The slippery "ice" world is actually a soapy bathhouse, which is so bonkers that the devs put a warning about it on the store page.

The store page also highlights the game's "fantastic musics" -- and damn, man, they ain't kidding. All eight worlds have a unique track that brings each locale to life, from the tropical steel drums in Wooden Walls, to the cozy Christmassy Snowy School, to the bubbly, dreamlike theme of Candy Clouds. Like Hirokazu Ando's excellent Kirby soundtracks, Ameagari's OST is fun and catchy and playful, but isn't afraid to get serious in the later levels. I wouldn't have liked the game nearly as much if it weren't for AAAA's fantastic composing, and shelling out the extra $6 for the OST is highly recommended.

I've got a soft spot for Ameagari no Hanaby. It's clearly a product of love, one with a very small fanbase and an even smaller English-speaking fanbase, and it got a 2019 sequel (Hanaby the Witch) which is also quite good. It's not going to set your world on fire -- ;) -- but its charming characters and worlds make it worth a look if you're in the mood for video-game comfort food.

Hanaby is cutesy, short and simple platformer that isn't particularly challenging or difficult.
There isn't much to say about it critically and I feel like I could simply call the game "Nice" or "Pleasant", but I can say it can be a bit surprising in places.
The soundtrack is pretty solid for a game like this, and all of the stages look nice and don't weigh on the eyes at all.

I can't say whether or not it's worth $14 for such a short game unless you decided to replay it a few good times or appreciate the effort and quality more than the length.

Overall, I had a good time with it and I wish it was a bit longer it's a "pleasant" platformer for sure.

This game is the definition of "hidden gem"
It's a cute platformer with kemono-styled characters, where you play as a squirrel girl that wields fireworks.
The commands are simple, the scenery is pleasant to look at, and the challenge is fair (that is to say, if you die, it's 100% your fault). Unfortunately, I wouldn't recommend this to children, because one of the levels has a VERY suggestive theme.
It's still one of the cutest and most colorful platformers on Steam, and I wish it had more visibility for more people to find out about it.

I really wanted to enjoy this game, but I cannot.
Why you may ask?
Well it's simple, when launching the game, a window opens, showing the game runs on Unity, then fades to white.
The OST and sound can be heard, but there's just a white screen, nothing else. Strangely enough pressing keys gives an auditory response and I *could* play the game, but I can't see anything.

I asked for help around, people told me to use a Japanese Locale, reinstall my drivers, run the game on compatibility mode, reinstall the game... The only thing that worked was to remove all graphical drivers, and somehow the game could run, but barely.

Being unviable to play that way, I cannot recommend this game, but being the only one visibly having this problem, I am sure others will enjoy it without issue.

As such, this review is a fair warning to fellow gamers that they may encounter the same problem.
And if the developer manages to find a fix to this, I'll gladly repurchase the game and leave a positive review.


EDIT : Game finally works!!
The fix was rather simple, if you're using a NVIDIA graphic card, use (or download) NVIDIA Control Panel, and there go open "Adjust desktop size and position", then enable "Aspect ratio" AND check the option that allows the setting to override scaling modes from any program or game. Save, and then launch the game!

This game is pretty cute, to be honest. That's all i can say. Fireworks, boom.

It had many levels to go on and play around, and was able to get fireworks. The characters was so adorable, and music was nice.
Artwork is the thing, what i liked about, and that's why i am playing this. (Love the artist, it's just so good! <3)

You should try this out, if you are into these type of games. It's cute. I recommend to play and buy this! <3

Cute and short game thats about fireworks. This is the first part in the game.