#Luciform bdo trial#
While in principle this element adds a sense of urgency to the climbing and jumping, in practice it makes each level an overly stressful gauntlet of trial and error. You see, you have no direct control over your character’s movement they proceed in whichever direction they’re facing until they hit a wall, and they can not rest in place.
This is a fairly novel concept, and one given due exploration by the game’s inventive level design, but Luciform’s other big idea saps this color-switching mechanism of enjoyment at almost every turn. For example, if your character is blue, they’ll fall through green platforms, but land on blue ones. Throughout its dozens of levels, Luciform asks you to constantly switch between three colors – red, blue, and green – in order to interact with platforms of the corresponding hue. Seeing as this is an indie platformer, I’d assumed going in there would be some back-of-the-box, pitch-ready mechanic on offer to set it apart from the admittedly enormous pack, and I’m very self-satisfied to report that I was correct. Pressing L2 inexplicably quit the game, while flicking the left stick upward did nothing at all, and after about ten minutes of plugging in and unplugging my DualSense, I threw in the towel, deciding keyboard controls would have to suffice. Even navigating the menu with a gamepad made me feel like I was going insane. It must be said that it’s entirely possible I’d have enjoyed Luciform exponentially more had I played with a controller, rather than with a mouse and keyboard, however the game made this functionally impossible. For these reasons, precision platformers are often the go-to for beginning game designers, and while Chaos Minds’ Luciform presents some interesting mechanics and levels, the inconsistency of its aesthetic and its frustrating difficulty make it feel like the developer’s practice project the larval stage of something more refined.
To a developer, this style of game presents a unique challenge an opportunity to flex their level-design muscles and focus solely on making a meticulous arrangement of blocks and walls intrinsically exciting to jump around on. From a player’s perspective, the genre offers unrivalled mechanical purity, unfettered by such trappings as skill trees or enemy combatants. There is an undeniable allure to the precision platformer.
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