Spinch

It just isn't fun to play, simple as

Please do yourself a favour and play a different platformer. Spinch starts off pretty nice, the controls felt a bit floaty from the start, but nothing you can't get used to after a level or three. But unfortunately it doesn't give you more than three levels before the level design starts degrading. Even in the first world, the level design is sometimes very confusing, and that's without the gimmicks that make some of the later worlds borderline unbearable. This game has the worst underwater levels I've ever played, the execution of the almost-3-D-artstyle makes it hard to see where walls are at times, and the placement of platforms and obstacles seems to have been done without much thinking about the actual moveset the player character has. All this culminates in world 6; if you think it sounds fun to play a maze level with enemies that constantly chase you and get super speed if you get too far ahead of them, that also constantly swaps gravity without changing your camera or controls accordingly, and that sometimes gets you stuck in the ground for no reason (oh yeah, this game has some pretty bad bugs by the way, even softlocking me once so hard that I had to quit to menu and res…

I'm at about 75% completion collecting all the babies and bonus levels along the way just to see the artwork of a new area. I keep trying to like actually playing this game every year or so though and have to keep uninstalling it because I have to acknowledge that, "no I am not currently having fun". I truly love the art of Jesse Jacobs and have most of his books on my shelf ready to reread and recommend to friends, so it feels a shame that the game mechanics themselves are the issues causing me to not enjoy it. Platforming is very precise throughout the game and often it feels like dash inputs aren't registered or are inconsistently distanced. Often wall jumping into a dash, necessary for 5-2 Woke Worms, will initiate a dash sound effect but lack of movement of the dash from the wall. The sprites for these worms often mess up and leave just a floating head chasing after you. The one time I was able to beat this level, the trigger to initiate the worm never occurred and I could relaxingly climb the platforms to the end of the level. I thought the sound effects and music were wonderful through most of my playthrough but as soon as the last quarter of a level with a gnarly death …

Very good, no nonsense platformer.

i cant believe these graphics are real. the mechanics and platforming are cool too. levels have a vibe to them that is very unique and "cha cha". i like.

this game makes my head hurt