Balthazar's Dream

I know the creators from their involvement in a facebook group, and for the />/ Asked for this Easter Egg (found it first try). I also love dogs and any game about dogs. any attempt to make an unbiased review would be futile. the game is very fun as a platformer and its story is quite adorable. I advocate you support these devs and try this game out if you enjoy dogs, platformers or cute stories.

This game almost got a thumbs up...BUT.... The main core mechanic, which is ..well..platforming...sucks. The controls feel floaty and annoying and just generally induce rage. Also theres this weird 'fear' mechanic which just sends you running off into pits of doom. Feels like early broken alpha release. Everything just floats around the screen, feels like they smeared the physics engine with butter. A real shame since I really do like the premise, pixelart and music It has charm but sadly its not enough. It shows the developers put alot of effort into this, but I have to judge this game based on how enjoyable it is to play and not just for development efforts. The game is just A$$ to play. I think this would have worked a whole lot better as an adventure game instead.

10/10 Would pet that dog again. What a good boy!

Great pixel art and what looked to be a touching story about the relationship between a dog and his boy initially drew me to Balthazar's Dream. It being an indie title with a lot of heart put into it by a small team also made me want to show support. The game as it is, unfortunately, is a clunky, average platformer lasting a brief 100 minutes; its touching story is ham-fisted and poorly-written; the level design and mechanics range from solid (bouncing around, general platforming) to nearly broken (throwing items, using 'instinct' to long jump). I think the story was the biggest letdown. It starts off well enough, if a bit predictable a scenario -- you're playing this for easy tears, right? Your master, a young boy named Dustin, is hit by a car during a game of fetch. You -- Balthazar, his dog -- stay with him in the hospital as he slowly passes, keeping him company on his journey via a shared dream. For the most part, it's told in a barebones and surreal fashion, but then the ending ...

I could not understand or get the hang of the game mechanics at all. Something about using fear and depleting smart bars or whatever. The 6-7 checkpoints I made was through sheer luck. It only took me 200 attempts to beat the first vaccum cleaner. The part with the ball is where I decided to stop trying after another 500 attempts. Very disappointed with this game.

A game that feels like it was made with a lot of love and very little skill. A platformer that has a lot of small challenges that it presents to you to overcome to keep it fun. The problems arises when in the technical execution of the levels and the challenges. Things like, when you are afraid you can jump farther to make it over large gaps. But the problem is you stop being afraid if you get far enough away, such as, halfway across the gap when you suddenly fall like a rock. It also has a habit of pilling on multiple small challenges together to create a larger challenge that requires you to put full trust in the game while also repeatedly proving why you should never trust the game. Overall, I want to love it, but it's a very flawed execution.

Really fun platformer about a boy named Dustin and his best friend Balthazar. Dusting fell in coma after he got crashed by and ice cream truck. His best friend Balthazar sleeps by his side, and in his dream, he tries to find a way to wake Dustin up as he doesn´t have much time left and is almost about to die. The Ending: [spoiler] After defeating Evil Presence, Dustin is dead. But he eventually comes back to life, and Dustin wakes up with ability to talk with Balthazar and also understand him. [/spoiler] I give this game 8,5/10. There were some spots where you get a little FPS drop, but still not that bad. The game is actually well-made and fun to play, but I find music a little bit repetetive and boring. Bosses are all easy [spoiler] Linux (Furcat) is still the hardest of them all in my opinion [/spoiler]. I find that part after [spoiler] talking to Laika the space dog that flying around some obstacles and trying not to die [/spoiler]. One huge con is in 10th chapter. If you manage...

Absolutely love it, love the art-style. the controls are tight, jump is on key-down and not key-up (so many games muck this up). The game is endearing, it grabs you right from the start. The game play keeps varying, plenty of different enemies. Nice little cut-scenes. And for the price it doesn't have to be long, I think it's a steal. I'm surprised this game has negative reviews, this is one of the best platformers I've played for a long time. You will die a lot, this is balanced out by there being regular check points, when you die, you don't go back far. A small criticism is that there are many leaps of faith, but that's just the style of the game, you run, die and you learn how not to die.

I wanted to like this game, but right out of the gate it controls very very poorly. The timing is bad, and while graphics and sotry felt great, I couldn't get over how small feedback you are getting from this game while playing. The "smart" bar idea is just bad design, it just artificially limits your basic abilitis like rope climbing resulting in a lot of dumb deaths. Feel like early platformers that hadn't nailed down the controls and game feel yet. I don't recommed it to anyone who is looking for a good platformer.

I'll start off with the cons, because that's how the game starts: the very first chapter (out of ten) is undoubtedly the worst. Even though the story, music and pixel art are already great from the very beginning, the gameplay feels unfinished and almost unbearable. Luckily, there are many checkpoints and infinite immediate respawns. But still, I almost gave up on the game (like many did, if you check the negative reviews). But I'm glad I didn't, because it does gets better in both gameplay and story - and the later sections and ending are surely worth the while. To my own surprise, I actually ended up finishing the whole game in one sitting (which took me around 3 hours). The game is weirdly divided into 10 so-called "chapters" of varying lenght, but there are actually around 4 "levels". I'll try not to spoil them, because the third one is especially great (both gameplay and storywise). But it goes like this: 1- HOUSE LEVEL: the very first, supposed to be a tutorial of sorts but act...