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Mutant Mudds

Game review

I'm really disappointed by the game:
The controls feels slow&the whole game has a bad timing/pace, it always feels that you are a few seconds too late. 
Do you know the moments you have to drive faster on some roads, otherwise the next traffic lights will turn red? Here you have no way to go faster&have to wait all the time.

There are enemies that come out of the background. Some fugly Stoneheads. There are usually at least 2 in a row. And if you don't jump exactly in the moment it jumps in the background into the newly formed hole, then you have to wait between the two heads, because they would crush you otherwise. The same with platforms that disappear.  Either wait or jump trough it. And so on, and so forth.

The graphics are functional but boring, because not a lot of variety is offered. The level design is, however, the greatest weakness.
They are often placed in the levels, where enemies are placed, but they have nearly no chance to hit the player, the players themselves can easily eliminate the enemies. So you wait until the bad guy comes into the picture&shoot, then wait again, etc.  Another time the enemies (eyes throwers) are placed at the far end of the screen so that you'll discover them far too late. Sometimes even complete parts are recycled in different levels.

The different layers are a nice idea, but a lot of lost potential here aswell. Here you jump in the background, sometimes in the foreground and that's it... doesn't feel special.

If you want to get all collectables, you sometimes have to jump down in a different layer and go back again exactly the same way to get back there, where you had to jump down.
The special levels are also nothing special. Nearly mono colored &nothing special at all.

It is overall a ok game for people who want to look at a formally 3DS 2D platformer with retro styled gfx, but the price is simply too high.
And there are way better games available for the PC in the same genre, lots of them for free. N