Light Fall Reviews
Despite the dark visuals of the game, the future looks bright for both Light Fall and Bishop Games.
A pleasantly challenging precision platformer with a gorgeous art style and fascinating mythology.
Light Fall is a simple platformer designed great for speed runners but with enough lore for any casual player to enjoy
This game performs well as a 2D platformer. It feels like a mix of Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog with the Shadow Core feature added into it. With your friend Stryx, you will attempt to save the dark world of Numbra from whatever comes your way. You will lose yourself in hours of gameplay and platformer fun.
Light Fall might not be reinventing anything but it definitely succeeds in what it aims to be. Exhilarating speed combined with a very reliable personal block can make even the most casual player feel like a champion. Its gorgeous aesthetic ensures that you never tire of it, and instead keeps you mystified enough to keep playing. And its most important mechanic, the Shadow Core, perfectly balances its role as a lifesaver and a stepping stone.
It’s simple, if you like platforming, you should play Light Fall.
Light Fall swiftly finds a spot among all the other Switch hardcore 2D platforming greats by offering not only a quality game wrapped in a beautifully unique atmosphere, but by successfully providing the player with a plot and characters that are worth investing, making the game very hard to set aside until you complete the tiny shadow-being quest. We found very little to complain about the whole package and as such have very little reserve in recommending you add yet another fantastic platform adventure to the growing list of titles already available on Switch.
Light Fall takes stunning, yet simple, artistic environments and showers them with relentless obstacles, devious traps, and your tears of frustration. The act of mustering through the stages proves to be a rewarding experience every single time. Undoubtedly, Light Fall is an adventure well worth delving into.
Light Fall is a fun and challenging 2D platformer with more than enough content to offer for its asking price. The difficulty curve feels just right, bumping up the challenge as you go at a steady pace without ever feeling overwhelming or unfair. It's a solid platformer on Nintendo Switch, and the secret rooms where you will find most of the yellow crystals to collect will test your skills even further as you try to use your cubed to defend from the hazards you find.
An enjoyable balance of innovation and fundamental oldschool platforming.
When Light Fall is firing on all cylinders it feels absolutely incredible, and it’s easy to see where it will be terrific for people looking to get their speedrunning put to the test. The ramping up of challenge from stage to stage feels just about right and the boss battles force you to put all you’ve learned to good use. I think it’s Act 4 and the pretty abrupt change in style that will divide people, with some people undoubtedly liking the sudden stepping up of challenge and others throwing up their hands at the rug being pulled out from under them. The shame is there are some great challenges to be had off the beaten path but the game seems intent on punishing you for checking them out without offering a sufficient reward in return. Light Fall has quite a lot working for it, it just feels like it gets in the way of its own success before the story is completed.
Light Fall is a fast platformer that isn't marred by poor controls or physics. The story is not anything special, but the gameplay is fun and enjoyable for any fan of platformers.
If you aren’t going to speedrun or discover the secrets hidden away, the game won’t last long, but I still urge you to buy it, explore it and test yourself on some of the harder elements to be found.
Light Fall is a traditional title in its structure but original in the playable element around which it revolves; the creation of a cube that will allow us to face all the challenges ahead. Dynamic, visually beautiful and with an adjusted and well scaled difficulty, it is a totally recommendable proposal for the platform genre fan. It has some problems with the narrative and some details that can be improved, but nothing that should be taken back when considering it as an outstanding option within the indies that have been launched this year.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Light Fall is a clever and artistically crafted puzzle platformer with a curiously compelling narrative and well balanced, steady rate of increasing difficulty that encourages you to try a little harder with each subsequent stage.
It's just all over rather quickly. I like Light Fall a whole lot and I could have stood for some more of it, maybe with some less spaced-out checkpoints and a less disappointing finale. As it stands, it's good game that ends a little too soon.
Light Fall is a quite short game that sums up in four acts. in its core, it's not as entertaining and artistic as games like limbo, but the fast pace of the gameplay and diverse abilities have made it a yummy experience.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Light Fall as pretty as it is dark, and with a few new ideas well fitted into older mechanics. It might be a little too difficult sometimes, but it's a 2D platformer with a story worth playing through.
Tricky platforming sequences prove rewarding, but most of the game feels old hat
Light Fall is a 2D Platformer that smoothly delivers on an innovative new concept but fails to live up to its potential.