I recently beat this game and had a blast with it. It's certainly not for everyone and I can see that, it's a bit more slow and methodical making it more of a puzzle platformer. I personally LOVED it and felt that my $20 was well spent on this game. =3 It's not the greatest game I have ever played, but for what the game sets out to do it does it well. You play as a snake named Noodle and he has no special abilities. You slither like a snake, you climb bamboo structures like a snake and that is the basics of the game. It's such an interesting and creative game which may be what I liked about it. There are other games you play as a snake, but this is likely one of the only ones that make you control as a snake.

Many reviews for Snake Pass mention "a steep learning curve" and "a difficulty spike," however if you play the game in a certain way both of these issues are mute. In every stage there are 20 whisps (basically glowing crystal ball looking things) and 5 golden coins, if you go out of your way to collect all of these things you are forced into trickier locations. So in turn the game is actually encouraging you to collect these things so you will come to grips with the controls. I felt that in just two stages I had already gotten used to controlling Noodle. So "steep learning curve?" Not in my opinion, if you want a steep learning curve try and play Kid Icarus Uprising for the 3DS, now THAT is a steep learning curve.

Also since I went out of my way to collect all of the golden coins, which are in more difficult areas, by the time the game required me to do these difficult challenges as part of the normal stage progression I was used to them. And as for the game's difficulty, well for me since I was collecting everything it wasn't until the final two stages that I would truly say the game ramped up in difficulty. Those final two stages really went all out in making sure you were used to how Noodle controls otherwise you would be having a difficult time.

Now the camera is not perfect, it does some odd things at times. Those times when you're dangling from a pole with nothing more than a bottomless pit under you it's not fun when you can't get the camera in a good position. But the camera was not awful, I have experienced worse cameras in better games, so I was able to deal with it.

The framerate did sometimes lag here and there, but no big deal.

There was also some pop in here and there, but it didn't effect the game in any way.

Anyway, if you like a game with a creative control scheme like slithering a snake around I definitely recommend this game. If you were to play this game I would recommend going after at least some of the golden coins as they are what help you get used to the game.