#razed
#razed
by Amr (@siegarettes)
Razed hides a lot behind its difficulty. It’s easy to look past its loop of trial and error platforming with its near instant restarts, or forgive missed jumps as a mistake on your own part. But this hides a simple fact: Razed lacks the visual communication and consistency that you need to make a good platformer.
One of my immediate frustrations with Razed was its energy system. Life is tied to your speed, gaining speed increases energy and slowing down depletes it. Get too low and BOOM, you explode. Problem is, ANY action you do takes a huge chunk of it, including jumping. Ya know, that thing that’s the core of every platformer?
