#rain world
#rain world
by Omar (@siegarettes)
I don’t enjoy Rain World. I don’t appreciate its hostility, the way it alternates between small moments of wonder and long stretches of frustration. I don’t enjoy the way it disrupts exploration, forcing you to inhabit the same area for long periods, feeling away on the edges of it until you can decipher its obtuse demands and wander into a solution. Its environments are filled with visual noise, making interactable objects difficult to spot. The platforming is imprecise and often unreliable, a constant liability when hounded by the threat of predators and rain. And its map is laid out in a sequence of sewer-like piping, areas twisting into each other that make it difficult to create an internal sense of direction.
I also find it hard to fault Rain World for any these aspects, as they all form a coherent, intentional core.