Primal Light

A very simple and short action platformer that doesn't do anything special but isn't too bad overall. It's rough around the edges, as far as the combat interactions go, but it's an alright game once you get used to it. Nothing that's necessarily worth seeking out, but it's not awful either.

Primal Light scores points when it comes to the visual ambiance and art style portraying a horrific, evil world. Its level design is less thrilling, though, and combined with enemies that get tiresome too quickly, the levels end up feeling like a burden, with the bosses providing a welcome highlight. Its punishing difficulty will put off less experienced players, though.

A great pixel art look gets dragged down by decidedly old gameplay sensibilities and aggravations

This is how nearly every combat encounter feels, and changing the difficulty does nothing. The bonfire-like checkpoints offer no help either, as they don't restore any health or allow Krog to buy extra lives. All these things really bring down what is otherwise a great game, and its best features are its level design, art, music, and platforming. Much like the original release of Primal Light, there are some who will see these shortcomings as challenges and have a blast trying to overcome them, but most will likely find the overall experience a frustrating and disappointing one.