Sadly, Dustforce stays true to the classic platformer recipe, as its levels may seem relatively easy, in case you just try to complete them, but are actually extremely complex, if you try to ace them and get the ‘S’ rating in the two scoring categories, Completion and Finesse.Īs such, expect some levels to really get your blood boiling, requiring sharp muscle memory and split second reactions from players, much like classic titles including Sonic the Hedgehog or more recent ones like Super Meat Boy. Besides the actual debris, these levels are filled with enemies that will attack you so you need to fight back by using your brooms, dusters or vacuums with light or heavy attacks.
You have four basic areas, a forest one, where you need to sweep leaves, a mansion one, where you need to sweep dust, a city one, where you need to collect garbage, and a laboratory, where sludge needs cleaning up. Once you actually start the game, you’re simply thrown into an overworld of sorts, called the Nexus, which you need to navigate in order to find levels you can tackle and levels you can unlock. While the aforementioned characters are definitely an odd bunch, they all have a variety of animations and moves that will help players throughout their cleaning adventures. The first is the blue janitor, a simple guy with a broom, followed by a red woman, with a slightly different broom, a purple little girl with two pompom-like feather dusters, and a green old guy with a vacuum cleaner on his back. Dustforce kicks off with a great cinematic showing off the acrobatic abilities of its four main characters.