Sweeping leaves isn't always thought of as the most enjoyable thing you can do, but it's the premise of new indie platformer Dustforce (though shouldn't that be LeafForce?!) Anyway, you have to run, jump, slide, attack and generally sweep your way through a host of levels.
Graphically Dustforce is an impressive game, its style looks deceptively simple at first but once there's a lot happening on screen, you'll realise how nicely designed the graphics are, and the animation is top notch. The music is excellent, I could load up this game purely to listen without playing (although the soundtrack is actually available to buy separately). The controls are quite simple though I did find them a bid fiddly at first (on the keyboard that is... one of these days I really am going to have to get myself another joystick!!).
After a tutorial level you get into the game map, which is like one huge level itself. Completing levels and getting good scores will give you keys to open up other levels. Some of the levels are quite small, but others look huge, and the level of challenge to complete each level varies widely ? as does the skill needed to merely complete a level compared to getting a very good score on it. For each level you get a score for technique and cleanliness (at least I think that's what it is!) as well as completion time, which gives you an overall rating ? you are instantly ranked against all other players' times. I tended to be somewhere around 18-20 thousandth (out of about 21,000!) - the best I did was about 15 thousandth. From this you can probably tell that platform games are really not my forte. I did enjoy Dustforce though, it's beautifully presented and plays very well, and there's a lot of variety and challenge there for platform fans.
You can choose from 4 different characters, though apart from aesthetic differences I wasn't sure if this made any difference to the game, and you can unlock more difficult levels when you got a ?perfect score? in any one level. Needless to say I have yet to achieve this... There's also a multi-player feature, which unfortunately I haven't been able to try out.
Basically, I suck at platform games so I didn't get as much out of Dustforce as it's possible to get. I think that if you're a fan of the platform genre then this game is going to keep you happy for a very long time. It's beautifully designed, the online high scores for each level will keep the best players compulsively returning to get a better score and trying to get into the worldwide top 10, while most platform gamers will simply enjoy the game.
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