Spirit Roots Reviews

Thoroughly charming.

This game is cool but also very frustrating. It's a Rayman-like, fun and challenging little platformer with great graphics. Really, visually speaking it's kinda perfect. Plus, music and sound design are quite good. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy when those little games are not too easy, learning from your errors and retrying is kinda my thing. But in this case, it's not just the difficulty that makes it frustrating. First, there are some little annoying bugs and bad choices : - in Dark Woods, the Grim Reaper-like enemy is not working properly, causing multiple raging deaths. - the fact that you automatically climb on a platform when you're close of it is so painful. - the camera doesn't allow you to see beneath you, not even a little due to the lack of crouching bind Secondly, some levels are way too repetitive and since you have a good chance of restarting the whole level it can get really annoying re-doing it just because patterns suck. Given to the mobile-friendly UI and it's price I guess it was developped for mobiles before PCs so maybe it's less glitchy and frustrating on phone. I'm not regretting buying this game but next time I'd rather pay 3 times the price to have a well ported game.

Fun little game. Reminds me a lot of Rayman with its colorful graphics, platforming and, unexpectedly, difficulty (though it's not unfair). The controls are responsive, so running through maps is enjoyable. And that is good, because for some reason I really wanted to complete every level 100%.

You know what? After all the negative reviews I read I was going to write a positive review for this one. I really was loving it. Sure I was having some issues with achievements dropping. Die 30 times. I did. No achievement. But eventually it dropped. Defeat the cornthrower. I did. No achievement. No problem. I just went back and beat him again. Achievement granted. But when I got to world 5, level 7, it took me like 2 hours to beat the level (and on easy mode--that's how hard I found the level to be), and I was still missing like 15 coins. Ok, begin again. I finally found the secret ledge off to the left near the beginning of the level, and after about another 1/2 hour I finally hit all the rewarded landmarks for each level: finishing the level, defeating all the enemies, and collecting all the coins, but the game had the gall to tell me that after about 2 and a half hours on a single level, that I had not collected all the coins! 115/115... that seems like all of them to me!!!!! I fumed! Thumbs down, uninstall, hide this game, ignore this game... Steam does not have enough ways for me to show the amount of contempt I have as a customer who is punished for their dedication to a seemingly fun purchase. I am probably so mad, because I WAS having so much fun with this game, until I hit my breaking point on that level. F*** this S***!

This is a game that seems fun at first, nice colorful graphics, and the level design initially seems like it would be a lot of fun. The more you play the worse it gets, this is one of those games that is not hard, but when you do die it is for all the wrong reasons, like you are walking and something you couldnt see falls on your head, you jump over a pit and land right on an enemy who you couldnt see, stuff like that, so the only challenge there is trial and error based. This game also has the worst ice level I have ever seen in any game in my entire life, it is completely impossible to control and is full of blind jumps, invisible hazards, and terrible momentum based gameplay. This is not the worst game I have ever played in my life but it is also not fun, there are much better platformers on steam.