![]() ![]() ![]() Video output in Full HD 1080p requires 1080p native display. Competition has never been higher to beat your friends on the global leaderboards. Tutorial mode guides you through the opening stages, offering hints and tips on how and when to utilise Putty’s arsenal of moves and equipment.Ĭonquering the many challenges, you’ll be rewarded with stickers for the sticker book, which enable you to download special unlocked free content for a whole year after launch. Whether the player uses Marathon or Challenge mode, as he stretches and morphs his way through the level, map mode allows him to zoom out of the action and plan his strategy. These levels are predictably filled with enemies to jump on (or pound), and contain some simple environmental puzzles and traps to work around.The unlikeliest of heroes, Putty has unique powers that make gameplay incredibly addictive, yet accessible for the casual gamer, with power ups and special objects to find and use, Putty Squad will keep you hooked for hours and hours of game play fun.įeaturing stunning graphics, the myriad of levels rendered in full 1920x1080 HD, are brimming with modes to play in. Once they’ve all been found, a door to the next level opens up. ![]() The goal, as I mentioned above, is to find a number of red blobs. Players are welcome to travel through the environments however they like, and each level is both vertical and horizontal. Putty Squad doesn’t hide its hidden things as well as those games, because it can’t the time limit doesn’t facilitate proper exploration. Nintendo is the master of this Donkey Kong Country Returns being the greatest example, but its lesser games such as Yoshi’s New Island also understands that time limits and exploration-based puzzlers don’t go well together. A good game where exploration is a core component hides its treasures well, and then encourages players to take their time looking for them. Each level has a time limit, for a start, and while it’s a relatively generous time limit, the fact that the game also mandates exploration annoys me greatly. There’s a couple of very old school quirks to the platforming. Putty Squad’s world is too alien to really be engaging on a narrative level, however, and so, as pretty as it is (and on the 3DS screen it is indeed a pretty game), the game relies entirely on the platforming to hold attention. It’s the kind of abstract set up that was common for the genre at the time don’t bother to explain why players need to do things, just explain to them how to do it, and leave the narrative to their own imagination. Putty Squad is old-school in the sense that it never really bothers to explain just why you’re playing as an (admittedly cute) blue blob and absorbing red blobs to open a door to the next level. Releasing the same game now gives a moment of nostalgic rush, but once that wears off there is nothing here that will maintain interest. And that’s the problem with the game while it’s perfectly workmanlike, Putty Squad was never of the same profile as, say, Mario or Donkey Kong back in those days. Putty Squad has its heart in the right place, and it works hard to recreate the kind of retro charm that this game offered when it was first released as an obscure Super Nintendo game back in 1994.Ī lot has changed to the 2D platformer genre in the years since, but while this remake (which we also recently reviewed on the PlayStation 4) has taken advantage of modern technology to up its visual presentation, the core game remains exactly the same now as it was back then. ![]()
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