I've played though the start of Animal Well this week. I have some thoughts:
- It's a very creative Metroidvania, I like that there's not really combat it's all puzzle based
- The items you get to solve the puzzles are fun and weird
- The art style is stunning
- The game runs fast, when you transition between screens it's instantaneous and just generally animations are fluid
- Big Mode and videogamedunkey are doing some great work as a studio, I'm happy to support publishers like this
- There's no tutorials, you just play and have to intuit what to do
- Arlo's spoiler free review video is a good one, he talks about how the world is a delight to traverse though which I wholeheartedly agree with
- One thing that I love about this game is how water looks and sounds, it really has this beautiful realistic feel to it, same applies to the smoke effects as well, the game was built with its own custom engine so I guess this makes sense as to why these kind of aspects are so unique
