Very cute, adore the art style. The music is like peak 90s Sonic CD energy, it's absolutely great in small doses - unfortunately it's on a pretty short loop and the same track will be used over multiple levels, meaning it gets old fast.
I have two complaints about the gameplay that made me put it down. The first is... it's Grapple Dog, but it doesn't seem to be sufficiently about using the grappling hook? There are long platforming sections about wall jumping, or swimming, or whatever, where you can't use the hook at all. It is only compatible with specially designated blue blocks. It's like a Spider-Man game where you spend more than half your time running at ground level.
The other issue was, I just found it frustrating when the difficulty ramped up. I repeated sections multiple times, trying to loop around for the purple gems and scoop up 100% of the fruit, but getting nicked on spikes and death pits, and it just had that feeling of "I can't believe I have to do this huge diversion to get the gem AGAIN". Contrasts poorly for me with Pizza Tower which also incentivises you to zoom through the level collecting all the stuff ASAP but is much more generous with player durability.
I have two complaints about the gameplay that made me put it down. The first is... it's Grapple Dog, but it doesn't seem to be sufficiently about using the grappling hook? There are long platforming sections about wall jumping, or swimming, or whatever, where you can't use the hook at all. It is only compatible with specially designated blue blocks. It's like a Spider-Man game where you spend more than half your time running at ground level.
The other issue was, I just found it frustrating when the difficulty ramped up. I repeated sections multiple times, trying to loop around for the purple gems and scoop up 100% of the fruit, but getting nicked on spikes and death pits, and it just had that feeling of "I can't believe I have to do this huge diversion to get the gem AGAIN". Contrasts poorly for me with Pizza Tower which also incentivises you to zoom through the level collecting all the stuff ASAP but is much more generous with player durability.