Review: Luminous (2018)

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Luminous (2018) is a retro-style platformer starring a BIPOC protagonist who has to save the world by rekindling the light. It's got a great style with very strikingly stark colors and pseudo-1980s graphics, plus a really good soundtrack. Plus: the story is not as straight-forward as it seems at first, with some unique twists to the genre/game style.

However, I couldn't finish playing and eventually gave up after about twenty minutes. I had a few problems: one, the light lines-on-dark background style actually made my eyes hurt after a while. Two, I have no patience for trying to jump onto a ledge exactly right in order to move forward in the story and that's basically the whole game. And three, I had a SUPER difficult time killing the monsters– not sure if that's on purpose or if I just can't get the hang of the controls, but it was annoying.

If you're good at platformers, you'll be fine. And I think the style and unique story elements make it worth checking out!

Price: $1.00

Available for Windows and macOS. I played the Mac version.