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This started off as a pretty innocuous 3D physics platformer. You run around with a booster rocket, a rock-cutting laser, and a steel cable, and you tear apart rocks and move them around.
Then the underpants came out.
See, apparently the plot of the story is that two brothers, Tiny (that's you) and Big (the main antagonist) are fighting over a pair of underpants they inherited from their grandfather. These pantaloons go on your head and grant you magical powers and to be quite honest, Big is kind of a douchecanoe.
Thus, you get to the third level (out of six) and suddenly the rest of the game ends up involving dodging rocks being violently hurled at your face (or cutting them in mid-air with your laser, but that's a lot harder) as a powermad little man with tighty-whiteys on his noggin tries to squish you with the landscape. But it's still a physics platformer and you're expected to carve up the landscape yourself to use as platforms over bottomless pits.
It's a relatively short game, but it was still a little long for my tastes, as it had every last one of the problems endemic to the 3D platformer genre - the camera was constantly an adversary, the controls were both too touchy and wildly imprecise entirely depending on how fidgety I needed them to be, and quite honestly, I had some hitbox issues where something would whiz past my head and despite missing me entirely, my little man would freak out and die.
It has good music, at least! And if you can handle the starched briefs aesthetic it's a nice game to look at. Definitely worth a look if that sort of game is your thing.
Sadly, that sort of game is not my thing and the last hour or so of a three hour game was spent screaming and cursing.
Then the underpants came out.
See, apparently the plot of the story is that two brothers, Tiny (that's you) and Big (the main antagonist) are fighting over a pair of underpants they inherited from their grandfather. These pantaloons go on your head and grant you magical powers and to be quite honest, Big is kind of a douchecanoe.
Thus, you get to the third level (out of six) and suddenly the rest of the game ends up involving dodging rocks being violently hurled at your face (or cutting them in mid-air with your laser, but that's a lot harder) as a powermad little man with tighty-whiteys on his noggin tries to squish you with the landscape. But it's still a physics platformer and you're expected to carve up the landscape yourself to use as platforms over bottomless pits.
It's a relatively short game, but it was still a little long for my tastes, as it had every last one of the problems endemic to the 3D platformer genre - the camera was constantly an adversary, the controls were both too touchy and wildly imprecise entirely depending on how fidgety I needed them to be, and quite honestly, I had some hitbox issues where something would whiz past my head and despite missing me entirely, my little man would freak out and die.
It has good music, at least! And if you can handle the starched briefs aesthetic it's a nice game to look at. Definitely worth a look if that sort of game is your thing.
Sadly, that sort of game is not my thing and the last hour or so of a three hour game was spent screaming and cursing.
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Too bad, because the aesthetic does look kind of neat.
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But yeah, there was a lot of screaming as rectangular objects sloooowly slid into the precipices they were dangling over.
(There may have also been a point where I unintentionally skipped a segment of a level by cutting away the platform I was standing on like a cartoon character sawing a tree branch)