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Petrichor is the smell of rain. You wander the forest, breathe in the damp air. Eternal rain leaving puddles. You light a fire under a ledge to stay warm. In your pocket is a damp note you found in the mud. "Remember The Sound Of Now - Δ" You tightly grip the handle of your umbrella as you toss the note into the fire. It turns to ash and its fragments rise into the air. The path calls you back. This free point 'n' click platformer's visit to a rainy forest is delightful. Do put on earphones or crank your volume to play, and maybe turn the lights down, as being surrounded by the drip-dripping and tap-tapping of forest rain eases one into the right spirit. Petrichor's slow and deliberate, and you should be too. While technically it's a platformer in that you jump and run from platform to platform, it's not twitchy. Jumping, climbing, and your other movement tricks are all at preset points, with buttons to click to perform them, you see. It can feel frustrating at first, but it's forcing a careful pacing. Puzzles are fairly simple, with a fair bit of backtracking, but hey – it's not a race. You learn new moves by collecting wet pages then sitting by a fire to dry them. |
