Mountain Climber: Frozen Dream

It’s motivational in the sense of body positivity and showing that you don’t have to live up to any expectations but your own that you make. Also motivating in the way that you can do whatever you want as long as you have the will then you’ll find a way, and the music oh my goodness so mystical and soothing. All around beautiful and wonderful game I just had some issues with the controls so I kept failing over and over but again all around Gorgeous game keep up the great work Ruben♡

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It’s no secret that this game is meant to be a straight copy of Celeste. It basically reuses the exact same artwork and puts a calming piano song in the background. Problem is, this game fails at copying one thing about Celeste, that one thing being that Celeste is a good game, while this is a major cash grab meant to be as unfair as it can be to force you to pay money. To give credit where credit is due, I do not think the programmer did a bad job. The physics work mostly fine, but I think that’s the only thing that’s just ok in this (I still wouldn’t be surprised to discover the physics were not written by the programmer). Now onto the big issue with this game, is it isn’t meant to be fair. You are given limited lives, you die if you fall below where you previously were, and spikes have unfairly massive hit boxes. On level 3, if you dash in an area with moving spikes, you are dead. I thought something seemed weird, so I screen recorded, and sure enough, I died even though there was 0 spikes around me. If you wanted to play a pixelated platforming game, pick up Celeste. It’s gonna cost you a lot less than this game is forcing you to pay and you’re gonna get a lot more game. I wouldn’t say this game is worth installing.

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Pretty good game but the amount of advertising in the free version is obnoxious. Ads are inserted into the gameplay in three separate ways: banner ads, ads when you lose all your lives, and then randomly after any death. One of these might seem fair, especially the 30 second ad you have to watch after you lose all of your lives, but the other two—the banner ad that runs constantly on the bottom of the screen, and the random forced ads when you die (but haven’t lost all your lives yet)—are awful and annoying. One might see this and purchase the ad free version but this level of in game advertising is so reprehensible that not only will I not pay for the ad free version, but I will abandon the game entirely because I’m so soured by the grossness of the in game advertising. Why would a developer accept this level of adulteration to his game?

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It rips its art style and game mechanics straight from Celeste, but without the decency to make it a good ripoff. Instead of an actual decent platformer like its “Inspiration”, it’s just an auto runner that rips off the dash mechanic. Not only does it rip off Celeste’s art style and mechanics, but the very first conversation in the game is also ripped straight from Celeste, with a bit of Undertale thrown in for whatever reason. Actually, they don’t only throw in an Undertale “reference” in the first conversation, but the death screen also seems suspiciously like the six souls or whatever. Point is, it’s a shameless ripoff, and not even a fun one. It’s just a dime-a-dozen auto runner that’s been done a million times before in much better ways, which is also infested with ads. Just don’t get it.

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This game is promising in concept. A simple platformer with only a few basic controls. It has great pixel art and ost, but has 2 major flaws that make the game much less enjoyable 1. It is riddled with ads. It gives you ads when you die, it gives you ads when you succeed, it give you ads whenever it feels like it. (It also seems to increase the amount of random ads it gives to you the more you play). I would honestly prefer it to cost money rather that have ads that ruin the game. 2. The writing isn’t great. Half of the game seems to want to be deep and emotional, the other wants to be comedic and lighthearted. This combination can be pulled off beautifully, but it just doesn’t work here, it ends up with a weird vibe. Tldr: it seems like a simple indie game at first, but ends up just seeming like the developers gave up half way through.