5 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 9.8 hrs on record
Posted: May 1, 2024 @ 6:41am
Updated: May 1, 2024 @ 6:45am

A better Q*Bert with more varied level design, ennemies, items, and Dreamcast / 200x years vibes.
One of the main attractions of the game is that levels are full 3D, with some fun level design. It plays exactly as in the trailers - it works well with no camera issues.

A really nice game overall, my main and only gripe with it is the nature of the difficulty. You are at the mercy of the RNG and level design (RNG is seemingly configured/tweaked per level) for ennemies and items spawn rate. Which means some levels are crowded with ennemies with few items to get rid of them, which may feel so difficult it can become frustrating. It feels unfair that things get so hectic in "easy" (!) mode, especially in the later worlds.
Game provides easy and hard difficulties, I switched to easy early (world 2 or 3, maybe) and never tested hard.

With that said, the game hopefully offers a pause (with a free camera mode), which helps planning, and the main character is very manoeuvrable, so things aren't totally unfair or unmanageable.
If you are bad at these games, you should still consider playing since you will definitely be able to have fun in easy mode for a couple of hours until you reach the later worlds (there are 9+1). It took me ~8h30m to beat every level in easy mode.
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