If you don't run over some dirt for a few seconds, the number dramatically drops out of the bottom left corner of the screen. Combos are pretty simple - you can't let too long go since you last swept something. The real goal here is to get through the level, sweeping up every scrap of dust, without letting your combo drop. Instead, the goal here is to sweep up every scrap of dust along the way. While there are a few levels that make that task alone pretty tricky, most you'll be able to run through without too much of a struggle. Just played as an A-B platformer would be to wildly miss the point of Dustforce. Impossible, you'll declare, before figuring it out, and getting stuck on the next challenge. On your first go through you'll make a few jumps, see what it expects of you, and wonder at the ceiling how you'll ever be able to finish it with your combo intact. The dust are the targets to hit, automatically collected as you so elegantly swoop over it through levels, skipping off walls to dart along ceilings, double-jumping between floating dust beasties who you bash to bits, and swooshing down steep hills to make spectacular jumps into seemingly unreachable gaps.Ī few dozen levels are scattered around a peculiar hub of various themed areas, some open from the start, others unlocked by perfecting previous challenges, each offering its own gravity-ignoring assault course to tackle. But forget whatever images of a game that conjures up in your mind - the dust, be it leaves, fluff or green chemical goo, is the motivation to perform some of the most rewarding platform parkour I've ever seen. With the engagingly silly premise of a 2D side-scrolling platform game where you play a janitor, the overall goal of Dustforce is to sweep up all the mess in a level. because you just do! That would be Dustforce. And it's always exciting to have a game that compels you to play the same levels over and over and over and over and over, despite the fact that it's over two hours since you needed to go to bed, and your hands hurt from thumping your desk, because you have to get a bloody 'S' on this level because. It's pretty exciting to already know one of your games of 2012, midway through January.

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