Netflix games: a puddle of idle games and locked up older titles... that's what it was, until Poinpy walked into town.
GOD Poinpy is good fun. I played Downwell and knew the developer had the goods but literally making Upwell as a cute fruit collection mobile game with music from Calum Bowen was unexpectedly wonderful. The difficulty is just right, it allows plenty of room for assistance if needed, it has a proper endgoal and ending, and then there's even a puzzle mode and high score mode. It has everything, day 1.
My only issue with it was the sometimes frustrating hit detection. If you get a jump whose zenith overlaps with a platform, you're basically doomed to land on it before you can jump again. And so many times, I slammed into the ground 1 centimeter from an enemy instead of bouncing off of it, and I just felt like: come on, poinpy. Give me a break kid.
Lovely happy game. Play it to the end.
GOD Poinpy is good fun. I played Downwell and knew the developer had the goods but literally making Upwell as a cute fruit collection mobile game with music from Calum Bowen was unexpectedly wonderful. The difficulty is just right, it allows plenty of room for assistance if needed, it has a proper endgoal and ending, and then there's even a puzzle mode and high score mode. It has everything, day 1.
My only issue with it was the sometimes frustrating hit detection. If you get a jump whose zenith overlaps with a platform, you're basically doomed to land on it before you can jump again. And so many times, I slammed into the ground 1 centimeter from an enemy instead of bouncing off of it, and I just felt like: come on, poinpy. Give me a break kid.
Lovely happy game. Play it to the end.