Growing Pains

This is yet another 2D pixel platformer glutting up the Steam marketplace. This one has a gimmick where your character grows as you progress which imposes some challenges beyond the usual tired, old platformer mechanics. There's another game on Steam featuring a similar mechanic, but unhelpfully I can't find it... I just recall it did the job a lot better than this. The game is really limited but one great feature of the game is that if you set the resolution to 4K (an option in the settings) then it immediately crashes, sparing you from having to face any more of the mediocrity. Otherwise, very lazy, poor quality graphics, blippy annoying music, and stale gameplay are the best you can expect from this. For comedy value, the developers actually think they should be paid $5 for this, but I don't appreciate the attempt at humour. I would consider paying them $5 if they promise never to touch computers again.

Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library Tags: Flash game quality. Alphabet letters fetch hunt through uninspired platforms. Size of protagonist gimmick just another factor to manage on top of the frustrating level navigation. You go through rooms that contain letters of the alphabet written through platforms, you gotta easter egg gold bars and leave the room while swinging balls with spikes are around. Sometimes you are too small so you gotta press a button to inflate the sphere protag, do it too much and you have to die and retry. You return to default size everytime you clear a room. Level design is lazy, gimmick gets old very fast. Got through a bunch of rooms until I spelled the whole alphabet. It felt condescending and strangely inappropriate. Xbox360 pad was detected and working correctly, this game offered some resolution options.

Unplayable. Crashes on start.

Growing Peenus

This game isnt really so difficult honestly, though this might be for those who are very well experienced with platforming. If you are a simple casual player, you can probably beat this too. The ranks (bronze, silver, and gold) are actually the difficulty, not something for time based. But even the hardest difficulty doesnt feel THAT difficult to me. Its still a fair challenge nonetheless and the design is pretty good. On the plus note, it supports workshop in case if you feel to try out other people's creation.

I was very pleasantly surprised by this game. The premise of your character growing whilst playing being part of the gameplay and the difficulty is something I have not seen before or at least not in this format. Very nice!