Jumpy (Android, Apple)
"Retro platform app inspired by Super Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog."
Jumpy is another great platform game brought to us by designer and developer Orange Pixel. The game is inspired by old-school platform games like Sonic The Hedgehog and Super Mario. This can be seen throughout the entire gameplay experience.
In Jumpy you control a white marshmallow-like creature through colorful worlds. These worlds each contain a specific theme. Jumpy has four worlds containing each three levels to play through. If you're an experienced gamer you'll be done with the game in a hour or so. Even though the game might be short , this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Three levels a world is just long enough a ride before you get bored with it and the new design of the next world is a refreshing sight. You will most definitely see the resemblance to Super Mario, with big, pixel-like blocks that have been smudged. The worlds reminded me a lot of old-school Super Nintendo games.
For controls you get to decide. Jumpy gives the player the opportunity to choose between control-schemes, which consist of standard touch-buttons for movement and jumping, tilt-control and some other external set-ups. I've played with the normal touch-buttons, because I think it's the most accurate and the most fun. This worked perfectly. The controls are very sensitive but never too sensitive and the jumps are high and long which gives the player time to consider its landing. There's also rings to collect in the game, which grand you an extra live once you've obtained a hundred of them. Then there's the scores, which you can upload to Feint and the achievements you get for particular skills carried out in the game.
Jumpy is a short but thrilling ride - but certainly not flawless. The levels are sometimes glitched when it comes to collisions with blocks and sometimes the camera gets out of perspective and you can't even see the end of the next gap. This can lead to frustration and undeserved punishment. There's also a few enemies around, with only one or two new ones a world. So don't expect too much variation in the game - After all, it's a platform game. Then there's the soundtrack, which basically isn't there.
In the end Jumpy offers an amazing, old-school platform experience with cute Nintendo-like graphics and good controls. The worlds have great themes, like stone-age and more psychedelic levels - even though you won't see any variation in the levels themselves. Sometimes they even look auto-generated and you end up at places you don't remember.
In the end Jumpy offers an amazing, old-school platform experience with cute Nintendo-like graphics and good controls. The worlds have great themes, like stone-age and more psychedelic levels - even though you won't see any variation in the levels themselves. Sometimes they even look auto-generated and you end up at places you don't remember.