Challenging throwback platformer.

User Rating: 6 | Mutant Mudds PC
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Mutant Mudds is a challenging, well built, nostalgic platformer with simple yet solid level design, a mario-esque retro style, a short-range jetpack, a gun and most uniquely the ability to move between multiple levels of depth a la Virtual Boy. That is, at certain points throughout the level you can move your player to the foreground and backgrounds and continue playing there. I'd surprised it isn't more frequently compared to Virtual Boy but that would require people to actually remember Virtual Boy.

I'm not a huge fan of pure platformers. I'm never quite sure if I'm wasting my life or not so I convince myself I'm improving my reflexes. I won't question whether there's a market for platformers like this in 2012/13. I suppose there is.

The levels are brief, challenging and well designed up until 4-4 - the last level of the main game. 4-4 presents you with lame off-screen dangers that you can only really react to after you've seen it once. No one can tell the future nor react that quickly. This is a poor excuse for a challenge. The rest of the game from here is accessible via hidden doors within levels, but you'd have to be a mad man to want to continue playing. Who has that kind of time? With incredible games available that continuously increase your level of skill, forgiving small mistakes and importantly, offering you varied and dynamic experiences, why would you want to essentially repeat the same levels over and over again. Unfortunately I don't care for obssessive challenges and competition, I only played this game and am now writing this review to take my mind off a break up I didn't want.

Yes Mutant Mudds had multiple layers of depth in the most literal sense, but I guess I wanted more out of it.
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