First off, on simply the surface level this game is beautiful. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous-it is clear that the game designer really was working on a labour of love. The music is perfect for the game, and helps to add to the immersive emotional experience. The characters themselves are whimsical yet austere-they can be silly, but not in an annoying way. In particular, Fidget-the protagonist’s sidekick, is a delightful contrast in innocence to the world. Her experience gradually grows her character in extremely subtle yet real ways. Yet, this is often unnoticed beside the delicious character development of the protagonist himself-Dust. Dust is a warrior with an unknown past, which is gradually revealed. Even this plot usage, which can be a bit prosaic in some games, gets a marvelous face-lift.
The story is entrancing, as is the world that it takes place in. You quickly forget that you are playing a side-view platformer, and the style makes it easier to fall into the world due to the easy-to-master controls. The fighting is tight and responsive, with enough variety to make it continually interesting throughout the game. I would recommend the use of a controller (that is what I did), but a friend of mine used a keyboard and mouse and he has told me that he found the same thing. Very responsive and tight controlling. You will not die because of the controls, you will die because of your own inabilities.
The con to the game that I can see is that the boss battles become fairly simplistic once you realize that you can simply dust-storm back and forth (for the most part) until the boss dies. This, however, does not bother me a great deal, as I am more interested in story than challenge. The game does provide a challenge for those who need it, however.

Conclusion: This game is certainly on my top games list, and sits at the top for indie games I have played. It is a masterful work of art that should populate everyone’s games list.

A 10hour platformer which is not groundbreaking in any aspect, but still is pretty enjoyable, especially if you like easy games to relax with your gamepad. You follow around a dude with the classic case of amnesia, with a classic funny gimicky companion while doing classic jump and attack stuff.
The story is decent, while it is kind of childish (it does seem like a game is geared toward the younger audience, there is not much text in game, the quests are straightforward, even the “hidden/secret” puzzles are extremely basic, and most of the time are just solved by getting further in the story and getting that upgrade to your jump that you were missing)
The fighting system is responsive and fun, though it is pretty basic by most standards, there are basically 3 types of attack + 3 projectile attacks and 2 combos. That’s it. The timings are forgiving, the opponents are mostly tank-n-spank with some variations.
There is leveling and equipment system in place, which is robust enough for a platformer game, still in itself it is again very simple at it’s core (items do not posess much unique qualities, if the armour costs more and was found later in the game it gives more defence and is straight up better, same for the rest of the items.) There are crafting materials and crafting, though to craft highest end stuff in the end of the game – you actually have to grind materials (which I wouldn’t expect to find in a platformer and was never inclined to do so)
The art in the game is awesome, characters are monsters have decent design effort put into them, though most of the time the designs were reused throughout the game, which is not that great for such a short game anyway.

All in all I don’t think I personally would recommend this game over, say, Guacamelee. But it is still quite ok if you liked what you have read.

PS. ♥♥♥♥ unskippable credits at the end of the game so hard.