I keep stumbling over character names seren or similar. I can't explain it. moon's haunting me.
I wasn't exactly planning on playing this game, but it was the most appealing third game in a bundle that I picked up for one of my 13-for-13s, since I'm a sucker for ice environments (both aesthetically and mechanically). it's a cozy platformer about searching for ila's cat while jetting around on a skatebroom. I 100%'d it in about 3 hours.
the premise feels weirdly similar to an infamous tweet about, of all things, disco elysium:
I want a game that uses Disco Elysium's same insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing...
...but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour's cat in a small village in the Alps.
I don't know what to do with this thought, really, because I don't think this is at all related or reflective of that, but it's nonetheless swam around my mind as I traversed this mountain. similarly, I could compare said mountain traversal as a journey for the main character to learn something about herself to celeste, but I don't like that game enough to have beaten it the dozen times I've smashed my head against it, so I wouldn't have anything meaningful or personal to say.
this is too short a game to have really potent emotional beats for me, but it still made me happy when I reached the top of the mountain and I finally found ila's cat coco. a message waits for ila when the sun sets at the peak. "you were made for the snow... and for anything you put your heart to. I love you." her path is her own now, the journey spent pondering what school of magic fits her best, and weighing on her fears, doubts, and capabilities. her mom's legacy lives on in her, and alongside her, as coco was a familiar to both of them.
the reunion with coco is cute, by the way. he ends up in a little slipper sidecar and, as of a recent update, helps you hunt down collectibles. very good.