A nicely consistent experience with some nice design principles.
PROS:
- The layered 1-bit pixel art is a striking visual and a nicely mature visual design.
- The soundtrack is very catchy, fits the theme well, and blends in nicely with the experience.
- Puzzle design really comes into its own towards the end, with some very engaging sequences.
CRITIQUE:
- The colors chosen for the layered 1-bit definitely let each layer stand apart from the others, but might be too stark contrast for some viewers. My wife and kid were watching with me and mentioned their head heard during a couple parts from the visuals.
- It's not obvious and a little confusing at first that the unlocks aren't all available everywhere after they've been acquired once on any given level. Especially since the state of the conveyer speeds WAS persistent between levels.
- I managed to get into a bugged state where I froze the water as I was just touching the water. I ended up stuck in swim mode so I wasn't able to activate the freeze again to "get out" of the swim state. I was able to just reload from the world map to get reset properly so it wasn't too game-breaking.