Play Fell

it's fun and short and free but the movement leaves something to be desired. overall, the movement concepts are good and after about 20-30 minutes i felt pretty comfortable with them, but i consistently had some trouble predicting what my vertical speed would be at any given point in time.
the main issue stems from, as another review said, the character "falling like a rock" whenever they are not moving up—that is, they immediately (or at least very quickly) reach terminal velocity. this on its own isn't the worst thing in the world, but when combined with the finicky physics involving wall sliding (primarily not being able to tell at what exact position i'll be latching onto the wall) it makes for a system that feels overly precise in unintended ways.
additionally, something more subjective is that i'm not a fan of how, when jumping, you move at a constant velocity upwards, à la the robot from geometry dash. i prefer some acceleration when jumping, but that might just be because that's what i'm used to.
overall fun game, and i'd be interested in seeing more from the developer in the future

When I first found out a celeste inspired platformer named Fell was coming out, I knew I had to get in on it.

As a former top level celeste speedrunner, I do like the inspiration that this game takes from it, but does enough with the movement and the art style to firmly define itself as it's own thing. It is a very short game, and anyone who is experienced with platformers will be able to finish it front to back in under a half hour, but it is also free! So the length doesn't feel like a deterrent at all. It is really just a cute and fun game that I would recommend!

I do have some feedback on the game that the developer can hopefully use going forward!

When it comes to platformers, feel is everything. There were a few distinct cases where I felt that the "feel" aspect of the game could be improved by having slightly different physics.

- The first one is the feeling of falling, in a game like celeste (not to say every game needs to feel like celeste), your character takes time after jumping, dashing, etc. to accelerate into terminal velocity. This gives the player that split second to breath after taking an action so they aren't forced into doing a super input intensive sequence or a sequence where predictive inputs are required. In Fell, it often felt like the character was dropping like a rock between actions and gave even someone like me, who is extremely used to high input platforming, a bit of trouble to figure out and I didn't love how it felt in the end.

- The overall level design of the game is very fun! I can only think of two jumps that don't feel good/consistent to me so far, and one of them is the last jump coming back out of the final room. However, I did notice a pattern throughout the game where the main feature of the room was oftentimes preceeded by, or bookended by, a couple of spikes on a cycle. I don't think they have no place in the game, but having to take my time to walk through the prologue to a room each time I died in it gave the feeling of padding, rather than creative gameplay. As a remedy to this, I suggest making longer feature sequences instead of padding the start and end of rooms with cycles.

I will definitely be giving the game a fair go for speedrunning and I am excited to get started on that! Definitely recommend Fell if you are a fan of indie platformers

Sure, neat little platformer, and about the right... length....

...I'm sorry, I'm writing this review, and I just noticed that the description says to beat the game backwards after you reach the end, and... I guess I'm not done with this! Anyway, yeah, good game.

One criticism; the default keyboard controls really overload the left hand. I can't actually remember if they're remappable but, either way, may be worth moving the default controls to split left/right movement and jump/dash so that they're split between hands.