This was originally posted on the now-defunct Random Fury! videogame blog.
This week I am playing… Super Puzzle Platformer.
It’s a game by Andrew Morrish, and it’s a bit of a mash-up. As the title suggests, it’s both puzzle and platform. Well, to be more accurate, it’s a platform game set in a puzzle game. A kind of Anti-Mr.Driller, set inside of Tetris.
It has a lovely retro feel to it: Simple controls, easy to grasp mechanics, some lovely big pixelated graphics and an endearing chip-tune. You play as a little orange dude with a gun and can shoot the coloured blocks which drop from the sky. If you shoot groups of the same-coloured blocks then they all disappear – this includes ones you are standing on, so be careful if there’s just one layer between you and the spikes underneath. The bigger the groups of blocks you shoot, the more coins appear. Collect coins to upgrade your weapon so you can kill larger groups of blocks quicker. There are some special bad-blocks that drop to make things a little more tricky/interesting – in my various playthroughs I saw grey blocks with spikes on the top of them (deadly if you land on them spikes), and grey blocks with drills on their bottom edge which wipe out a whole column at once – avoid. While the average game of Super Puzzle Platformer doesn’t last too long, but it is very moreish. Consider that a warning.
As is tradition, that link again: http://andrewmorrish.net/?page_id=313 Give it a play.
I believe there’s a Deluxe version on Steam, but I don’t use Steam so I wouldn’t be able to tell you if it’s good or not. There’s a trailer for it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOF34dQ0z04, so play this game, watch that, maybe buy that, I dunno, up to you.
