Excellent style, good platformer

(Pros and cons at the bottom)

This 2D platformer has an atypical setting, one obviously inspired by jazz in its infancy. This setting is the strongest part of the game, which includes the music and graphics. The games production values are great in this regard, but how about the platforming mechanics?

Each level has 80 notes and 10 pictures to collect. As an experienced lover of 2D platformers, I found collecting everything rather easy, and mostly enjoyable. You move left and right and can jump... with two very awkwardly placed buttons for climbing when you come into contact with a ladder. The left-right movement is sometimes a bit unresponsive, but overall not too bad most of the time. However, those awkwardly placed climbing buttons are just obnoxious and were really the only thing about playing this game that annoyed me. Most of the times I would mess up were just related to these climbing buttons being positioned unintuitively (both up and down are placed right above left and right, instead of down being below left-right). I would suggest the developers patch to give us a full dpad or something, because there really is a fair bit of climbing up and down to do.

That aside, it was an enjoyable experience and I still give it 4.5 stars for being otherwise fun, relaxing, and having a pleasantly unique aesthetic.

Pros:
+ Excellent graphics and music
+ Has a storyline that unfolds between levels, which many iOS platformers dont even bother with
+ Stuff to collect

Cons:
- Quite easy (less so if you collect everything, though)
- Annoying placement of climbing buttons, feels awkward

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