TetherGeist is a 2D Precision Platformer about Mae, a young villager with a mysterious illness that has turned her right of passage into a treacherous journey. Join Mae in her struggle to prove herself as you make your way to a mystical temple using powers of astral projection.
One of my only complaints is that sometimes the level of precision the game requires can veer into feeling unfair, but fortunately those moments aren't very common, and with the frequency of checkpoints the frustration is kept to a minimum.
As a massive fan of Celeste, I believe TetherGeist earned the comparison the developers made to it, but more than...
After completing the journey, my save file in TetherGeist shows almost exactly ten hours of playtime. Ten hours in which I bounced through the seven chapters and steadily sharpened my abilities as a shaman. The individual sections are concise and consistently motivating, and thanks to the different traversal abilities, the game requires not only precise...
TetherGeist ended up being a really pleasant surprise. It takes a genre that can sometimes lean too heavily into frustration and balances it with thoughtful storytelling, approachable checkpointing and movement mechanics that feel rewarding to master.
Now, make no mistake, this is still a demanding precision platformer. If games in this style have never...
Taking the side-scrolling precision platformer and adding a variety of traversal skills to the mix amps up the difficulty and variety, so be ready for some frustrations
Fast-paced and challenging 2D platformer on Switch
