Tripped | Submitted by the99th on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 20:03. |
Cactus tries to take Nifflas's crazy-platforming throne, and succeeds at doing something weird and beautiful. Move with the arrows, jump with the up arrow, do things with the z button, and be different people. At the end, you'll get the feeling that you've played through the interactive equivalent of an absurd short film, and that's awesome.
Space Barnacle was created for the TIGSource B-Game design contest (a reference to B-Movies). The history of the game's production is pretty interesting, you can read about it here.
The first thing I noticed was that this isn't a bad action platformer. Especially its controls: I had just the day before played the demo of Jasper's Journeys, which was very hard for me to control, so this felt wonderful in comparison. Jumping, walking around, shooting, it reacted instantly and felt right. I think that the main pleasure of a lot of games is just controlling the character, in the Nintendo 64 Zelda games I remember just moving Link around slowly, climbing things, and it felt good. Some games just feel good to control for me, and Space Barnacle is one.
Nice. Any sign of an
Nice. Any sign of an alternate ending?
Just...no.
This game is, honestly, pretty stupid. It makes no sense, is too hard, and is not at all satisfying when you finish it.
Pointless
This game was too hard, or too poorly designed, or something. I couldn't figure out how to get past the screen pictured in the review. There's no way to get to the other side like the guy asks you to.