Olija

• Genre: Action Platforming
• Time Played: ~5 Hours
• Too Short/Long: It was fine, I wouldn't have minded a bigger game that explored the mechanics a bit more.
• Pleased/Disappointed: Pleased, it was pretty fun.
• Why I played: I had started it awhile ago and only just decided to pick it up to finish it, not exactly sure what got me started but maybe because it invoked Another World to me.
• Recommend to others: Yeah, it's worth playing.

Olija is a pretty cool game that despite being more action oriented I think has some pretty obvious inspiration from Another World, though only Prince of Persia is cited as a source of inspiration, though I can see that too.

It's pretty solid, the main mechanic is you have a harpoon you can throw and then teleport to if it sticks into stuff/enemies. It just doesn't stick into plain walls and the ground. Later you get a sword that sticks into the ground you can teleport to, and while they do a small handful of puzzles with these, I would have loved to have seen that explored further. They could have done some pretty cool stuff with it, like an auto scrolling sequence, or some more involved platforming challenges. That said, it's pretty tight as is and maybe going into all kinds of other stuff would have been dragging it out. I had fun with it.