Cloudberry Kingdom Review | Hardcore Gamer

Platformers tend to be exploratory affairs, where peeking into hidden corners pays off with extra goodies or new challenges. Even the more action-oriented ones like Sonic reward slowing down and seeing what you can find, and while speed and careful touch on the gamepad might be necessary towards the game’s end, for the most part they move at a measured pace with a middling challenge level. Cloudberry Kingdom isn’t having any of that, instead opting for a pure arcade twitch-fest that needs split-second judgment and good reflexes to complete. It’s also got an effectively infinite number of levels ranging from walk-in-the-park simple to “HAHAHA oh god no!” hard.