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What this boils down to is it’s a puzzle game where you can either work with a friend or do the left/right brain thing solo to solve some devious puzzles. Doing this may require that you position yourselves in the way of streams of color to allow the other to pass, or as you progress you may need to grow yourself in order to survive quickly moving through a same-colored stream, hoping to get out before you’re reduced to nothing. These puzzles require thought and coordination but to a degree they can also challenge your sense of timing and dexterity, especially if you were to take it on by yourself. Each analog stick controls one of the characters and while you can get through it all you can expect to wear yourself out a bit mentally keeping track of which stick controls which character on-screen. Already having played quite a number of games with a similar set-up on Switch I’m sort of down the middle with Deru. Both in terms of the aesthetics and ambient music it is a subdued and even beautiful experience, which is a plus. The puzzles are certainly varied and some even may seem overwhelming at first as you try to figure out what you’ll need to do to get through them. Even once you have your plan in place execution is critical and this isn’t set up to be a cake walk by any means. However, in terms of overall creativity, diversity, and requiring outside of the box thinking to push you it isn’t quite in the same league as something like Death Squared, so it’s quite good but not at the top of its category.
Justin Nation, Score:Good [7.0]