Anyone here played Animal Well?
Anyone here played Animal Well?
Warning: very mild spoilers for early game
Animal Well is a new 2d platformer by the renown youtuber Donkey. It got good reviews so I decided to download it. But I find it really difficult. It is a bit like a meteoidvania in the sense that it is set in a single large world and access to areas is gated by the need abilities/items acquired by progressing the game. But I get lost so often it is really frustrating. I'm really bad with directions in general which is probably why. I got to a part where I couldn't jump high enough to get on a ledge and also a large beautiful kangaroo beat the shit out of me. I went there again after I died but the kangaroo was somehow gone. I think that's a bug for sure. I did some pro gamer shenanigans with the disk item to reach the ledge and went ahead. What's bothering me is that I don't know if the game expected me to do the disk shenanigans or if the I was supposed to acquire some other ability/item before proceeding. After a while, I am stuck again and this doubt is gnawing at my mind.
Anyways the game looks and plays well. Just wanted to talk about my frustrations. Thanks for reading.
fwiw the game isn't exactly "by" dunkey, he (and all his staff at bigmode) just published it, Billy Basso is a genius and deserves credit here - just a light PSA
I pretty much ignored the disk until it became obvious that I absolutely needed it. If you hit a dead end just make a note of it and try somewhere else. You'll eventually stumble onto a new item or area. Have you found the map?
If you want minor (vague) help:
light kangaroo spoilers
There is counterplay against the kangaroo. Try using items.
Kangaroo is gone. I didn't get the chance to defeat it. I think it's a bug.
It will appear throughout the game until spoiler spoiler spoiler