Giana Sisters, I am not sure about difficulty or level design, as I have not played it myself.
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That's what I thought too, but it may be a bit difficult.
But my vote is for Trine
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Dust an elysian tale it has furry animals and I've played in on hard and it was challenging but my sister played on easy and she had no troubles at all. Also, Rayman origins is pretty fun. Try also battleblock theater or any Lego series.
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Dust isn't much of a traditional platformer though. But Rayman and Battleblock are wonderful games
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I always enjoyed Prince of Persia. The Sands of Time might be a good start. Its not a side stroller, but platformer is the core of that game.
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I don't know how much of a platformer I'd really consider it but there is Dust: An Elysian Tale or Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
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She's played brothers. I can't remember if she finished or not. But the two stick thing was a challenge.
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Ah, I really enjoyed brothers, sad story though. I think it helps with a controller over keyboard for sure but you do have to get a bit used to if if you don't use controllers often.
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I'm terrible at platformers. Here's some that I found easy:
- Dust: An Elysian Tail (Platformer with RPG-features. Being able to grind for levels whenever I got stuck made it easy enough.)
- Freedom Fall
- Terraria
- Trine
- Starbound
While the last three aren't standard platformers, they do include enough platforming-elements and might work for learning purposes.
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i would second freedom fall - it´s not really hard, the levels are not that big and there are enough savespots inbetween harder passages.
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Yeah, I feel like those are something else build on the general control scheme of a platformer. (In my library they're in my "mutable world" category, not any of my platformer categories.)
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Hello ! I'm not sure you would appreciate the theme, but for example Freedom Fall is not too hard.
Toren is easy too but it is short and some players can find it boring.
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Never Alone
http://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/
Simple platformer for beginners with an engaging and educational story. :)
Also would allow you to co-op each as a different character but can easily be done with one player switching between the two characters as necessary.
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She is literally in the living room playing this as we speak. (It was my concern that the co-op nature of it would eventually be a hindrance that made me post the thread.)
But I feel like that deserves some sort of recognition. :)
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Make her lay the entire/most of the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise, in the second and third game you can play Tails and she can play Sonic if you have the controlers for it :) the co-op part i hope is only optional, surely you could let her play by herself while you watch. Also why only platformers :o ? Old, new and classic beat em ups, racing and strategy games could be good too, no? In that field I got lots to recommend/suggest, otherwise you could easily search up platformers on internet and steam if you invest the time into it, its not that hard to find games you deem apropriate.
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Hmmm, I suck at platformers, the only ones I completed (as in got to the end, not 100% with all achievements) are Deadlight, Nihilumbra, LIMBO and Albert&Otto.
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Yeah, a lot of the ones I play tend to be puzzle games too: LIMBO, Nihilumbra, Braide, Fez...
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VVVVVV can be completed with basic platformer knowledge, however you will need a lot of skills if you want to complete it while collecting all trinkets :)
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This. iirc VVVVVV is not too hard to complete, albeit without hundred-percenting it. It's also very simple to control.
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That's actually the main one we've been playing together. It's a really great game.
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Ah, Okay. Marvin's Mittens is another game I would recommend. It's a cute game with no deaths.
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Oozi: Earth Adventure - http://store.steampowered.com/app/257990/
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DuckTales: Remastered? I found it quite easy, dunno what she'll think about it. It's a very nice game though. :)
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Never Alone is a brilliant platformer! The only one I can think of at the moment that I enjoyed! One I recently enjoyed was Ori but like you said that one is not easy in a few places :P
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I was reading somewhere that Castle of Illusion isn't too hard. But haven't played it myself.
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Super Panda Adventures!!!!
Has a little backtracking but it's so good.
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Rayman Origins and Legends are easily two of the best platformers of the past decade. They do become quite hard towards the end but both games have a steady progression in difficulty, so they start extremely easy and steadily introduce new things to challenge you. Plus both games have local co-op so you could help her with the more tricky sections. It's also really cool co-op, as if one player dies that doesn't end the session for both players, the surviving player can revive the other as many times as they want.
Levels are simple in design and includes furry animals. Both games are gorgeous to look at and generally just put a smile on your face. I'd say they are perfect!
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This so much! My 6y old sister is totally in love with those. You cant go wrong with Rayman.
Disclaimer: Rayman: Legends contains remade levels from Origins (all of them) so Legends seem like better choice.
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Battleblock Theater. It's got great humor and art and is kinda cute. None of the platforming is too difficult. There might be a collectible that requires slightly more skill to get/ get 100% on the level, but to just finish the levels are quite easy. It goes on sale for dirt cheap pretty regularly as well!
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I'd like to second this. It's a very enjoyable game, with some humor mixed in.
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For no bonus points, Xeodrifter is a really short and sweet metroidvania that took me about four hours to complete and is quite charming. I'd also recommend Mutant Mudds Deluxe. My last recommendation would be to maybe emulate some classic games like Super Mario Land or Super Mario Bros. 3.
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Woolfe, Tulpa, Contrast - Great looking games but a little bit too easy (and short),
Deadlight - zombies :) Not really difficoult but have some hard moments,
Rochard - nice puzzles,
The swapper, Closure - more puzzles :) SOme of them brain melting,
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken - great for co-op, nice theme, funny.
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Refunct is easy. It's not a platformer though. But you can't die. And it's beautiful yet simple. But short. Took me 1 hour and I was playing around for 15 minutes to make some screenshots.
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Um... Super Mario Bros maybe? XD
I dunno, I generally would say that platformers are a... hard genre for people who don't typically play games (I myself find them easy but I've played games for so long that I don't even remember when I started anymore). After all you need quite a bit of spacial awareness and hand coordination to properly play most of those and they tend to be reasonably fast-paced so you need to be able to do it quickly. Since Super Mario Bros is as simple as platformers get (being one of the games to more or less establish the genre) it's a good first step. Plus nearly everyone's played it at some point or another. :D
Personally out of the platformers I've played on Steam I found Freedom Fall, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (on Normal difficulty), Trine and No Time To Explain to be super easy... But, again, I'm slightly more insane than the average person. ^_^
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I'm looking for a platformer for my wife to play. We've been doing some co-op stuff, but the disparity in skill levels is significant (that happens when one of you has spent hundreds of hours doing something and the other has spent almost none). I'd like to give her the chance to get better with a single player game she'd enjoy, but the stuff I have seems too difficult. 'Ori and the Blind Forest' for instance, would be frustratingly challenging.
So does anybody know of a good starter platformer? Points for having discrete levels rather than being a metroidvania-style game. Further points if it's cute or involves furry animals.
EDIT: Thanks for all the ideas, guys. I appreciate it.
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