Youropa Reviews

A gravity-bending puzzle-platformer with a twist, Youropa puts you in charge of a living statue inhabiting the now-floating chunks of Paris. You'll be slowly unlocking new areas and new abilities to traverse the world, some of which seem stupid and arbitrary at first, but actually well-thought-out in hindsight. The progression is excellent, with the game designed such that you won't get new abilities until you've proven your mastery of previous ones - making actually getting that progression feel all the more rewarding. All the while, you'll be dealing with some simple rules, firstmost of all being while you can climb [i]connected[/i] surfaces, your jump and any objects will always fall in the same direction of gravity - handily indicated through various, clear means. Also, after a short-but-clunky tutorial, you can build not just your own levels, but entire interconnected worlds just like the campaign, even being able to limit what abilities a player has on a per-level basis. It even has two means of unlocking the building blocks provided: prove your skills by collecting cassette tapes in the main game, or unlock them immediately at no cost to your progress or achievements. The actual editing is a bit clunky, as while you can freely move around levels when editing them, you can't manually change your orientation relative to gravity, meaning if you want to design some truly mind-bending levels, you'll need to switch between free movement and actually walking around the levels you create. Actually connecting logic signals between parts is equally-clunky at times as, depending on the viewing angle, the game can have a hard time determining whether you want to select an object's logic node or the object itself. Furthermore, some parts don't have logical connection points, such as pipe not connecting to their actual ends. If you can get past all that level-editing jank, you're quite capable of making mind-bending puzzles more difficult than anything found in the main game. Overall, a fantastic game I can definitely recommend!