plok is a strange little game. i love it.
its a goofy platformer with so much personality and some questionable ethics when you really think about it. our main protagonist and player character, plok, commits genocide and makes an entire species die out because they stole his flag. and he got angry.
still, the game's very charming and the art and atmosphere is wonderful. i love the "crafted" or really "hand-made" feeling it gives off, like an elementary school art project made out of clay and felt.
i wasnt able to finish it yet because the two difficulty options create such a difficulty spike that one is too easy and the other is too hard. i get it was marketed towards children, but come on. this is something you should expect from nes/snes/gamecube era games though, so its not a major complaint on my part. i guess i just have to get good.
other than that, the soundtrack is also amazing. i get that theres a whole meme around the follin brothers musical prowess, but tim genuinely outdid himself with this one. its so perfect. my favorite track is probably beach just because it gives off undertale end credits energy, if you get what i mean.
the gameplay is also phenomenal. its a sidescrolling platformer but manages to have its own quirks and gameplay mechanics that make it stand out like the limb system and those clotheshanger machines that take your limbs and open paths for you. whatever those were called, i genuinely forgot their names.
overall interesting game with an extremely interesting concept, good engaging gameplay and a silly story to wrap it up nicely. it obviously has the faults of every game from the 90s, but its an extremely impressive game for its time, hardware limitations and target demographic.
its a goofy platformer with so much personality and some questionable ethics when you really think about it. our main protagonist and player character, plok, commits genocide and makes an entire species die out because they stole his flag. and he got angry.
still, the game's very charming and the art and atmosphere is wonderful. i love the "crafted" or really "hand-made" feeling it gives off, like an elementary school art project made out of clay and felt.
i wasnt able to finish it yet because the two difficulty options create such a difficulty spike that one is too easy and the other is too hard. i get it was marketed towards children, but come on. this is something you should expect from nes/snes/gamecube era games though, so its not a major complaint on my part. i guess i just have to get good.
other than that, the soundtrack is also amazing. i get that theres a whole meme around the follin brothers musical prowess, but tim genuinely outdid himself with this one. its so perfect. my favorite track is probably beach just because it gives off undertale end credits energy, if you get what i mean.
the gameplay is also phenomenal. its a sidescrolling platformer but manages to have its own quirks and gameplay mechanics that make it stand out like the limb system and those clotheshanger machines that take your limbs and open paths for you. whatever those were called, i genuinely forgot their names.
overall interesting game with an extremely interesting concept, good engaging gameplay and a silly story to wrap it up nicely. it obviously has the faults of every game from the 90s, but its an extremely impressive game for its time, hardware limitations and target demographic.