From the creators of Clay Fighter comes a game about a shape-shifting ball of clay. You play as a boy named Clayton, whose father has developed a serum to turn humans into animals. However, an evil shaman desires this serum, and when he is denied ownership of it, he kidnaps Clayton's father and turns Clayton into a ball of clay. It's up to the unlikely hero to rescue his father, the serum, and the world!
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An interesting mascot platformer with puzzles after each level. The clay animal characters are very cute. The level design is strange and seems to have things scattered everywhere. It's the kind of design that makes me feel like I'm just looking at levels in a video game and not a cohesive world. I found the movement to be pretty fun, except in the underwater segments. The puzzles are a nice break from the platforming, but they become frustrating towards the end of the game. The music can be overly energetic and annoying at times.
An alright platform game with some creative ideas behind: the idea of shape shifting a clay (which is what the guy protagonist turned into from the witch doctor btw).
There are worse platforms, this plays pretty fine.
There are worse platforms, this plays pretty fine.
Another genesis gem that I loved as a kid but no one else ever talks about. I still love claymation to this day
Bad 2D platformer. Boring level design.
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While its certainly a mile ahead of the Clayfighter series it span off from, Claymates isn't really all that interesting either. Sure the gimmick of swapping characters for specific roles is neat but the levels are mostly long and kind of dull, the music just loops over and over in a really irritating fashion and the whole thing just isn't very memorable.
Its not horrible, the gameplay is solid enough and theres enough gimmicks to keep things moving like the overland menu having little pushing puzzles, the bouncing grid bonus game etc... but honestly its the sort of thing you would have rented way back if the actual games you wanted was out and unavailable.
While its certainly a mile ahead of the Clayfighter series it span off from, Claymates isn't really all that interesting either. Sure the gimmick of swapping characters for specific roles is neat but the levels are mostly long and kind of dull, the music just loops over and over in a really irritating fashion and the whole thing just isn't very memorable.
Its not horrible, the gameplay is solid enough and theres enough gimmicks to keep things moving like the overland menu having little pushing puzzles, the bouncing grid bonus game etc... but honestly its the sort of thing you would have rented way back if the actual games you wanted was out and unavailable.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!