donderdag 18 juni 2015

Squishy the Suicidal Pig - Cute, fun, and frustrating.


It sounds SO easy: Get yourself killed while platforming.
And it is easy; if you figure out how to do it....

Story
Squishy and his parents are living piggily happy on a farm. Suddenly, his parents get taken away to the slaughterhouse...

Squishy feels very sad and alone, and decides to commit suicide in order to  be reuinited with his parents in heaven.

However: Suicide is a sin, and therefore Squishy ends up in hell instead...

Luckily for him, the devil is bored and makes him a deal: If Squishy loses all his lifes and manages to find the Devil, too, he will be send to his parents in Heaven.

Okay, granted: This story does sound quite dark/grim, but the game itself is quite fun, bright, happy music: For some reason it keeps on reminding me of, for example, Mario 3 on the ancient Snes. The same platforming vibe is going on!

Gameplay/etc.
Because the games looks so overly happy, it looks deceivingly easy: It\s not as easy to get yourself killed as you may think, and in other levels the solution is so easy/obvious you simply don't see it at first, because you start thinking about the other places/stuff the developer placed in that area first.

So, ye: I suppose this might be seen as yet another frustrating. rage invoking, game. And for some reason I just seem to enjoy those games!




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