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Leaf Me Alone: The Lourney of the Leaf
- screamaid
- Jan 2, 2015
- 2 min read
Developer: Mark Foster and David Fenn
Publisher: Nickelodeon Addicting Games
Format: PC (Browser/Adobe Flash)
Leaf Me Alone is a neat little 2D platformer in which you are a sort of sentient tree-being guy. You travel to all sorts of places, doing all sorts of things and gaining all sorts of abilities. It was originally created for the Ludum Dare 26, but was expanded upon afterwards. It's an intriguingly unique experience, with an atmosphere that is really well put together in almost every way.
You start off with just the ability to walk and jump, but soon come across a leaf that allows you to do a type of hover. This open up another path, and as you go through various puzzles and platforming feats you end up getting a cloud buddy. This guy is one you can just pull out at any time, kinda like a pokemon. He does two things: follow you and rain. This allows you to grow plants, leading to even more puzzles and and platforming feats. There's more, but screw it.
In short, the puzzles are neat, and not obnoxiously challenging. The platforming can be a pain, but not always. The one thing it does wrong is conveyance. The game has a really open-ended feeling about it, but really is linear due to you having to go through one pathway to gain an ability to gain access to the other ones. You can spend a lot of time in an area you can't even get past, or just be wandering around, looking for something you have to do when didn't realize you didn't do something else. It's hard to be expected to figure out some of these things, seriously.
The music is a neat when there. It's got a really noticeable nature theme, utilizing flutes and other instruments of that nature. The aesthetics are a really fitting 8-bit style, really making the world look pretty and interesting. It uses a color pallet that you'd expect from a game where everything is natural, using plenty of greens and browns.
It's got a really unique atmosphere it gives off because of all these things, be it the puzzles, the aesthetics, the music, any of it. It can be a confusing experience, and might require a walkthrough to figure out where to go next, but it's a good experience if you can get into it. If you're always on board a good puzzle platforming adventure, Leaf Me Alone is a game to try out.
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