Marvin The Hatter

Unfairly misjudged. Yes, the game has buggy main menu, no custom controls option (which should be considered capital offense in the PC game development scene) and it occasionally crashes, but: - it has responsive, airtight controls (first thing that any platformer [b]must[/b] nail) and passable enemy collision detection; - it has good enemy animations and very nice art style to it (with, what's that 'fancy' word... "oligochromatic" palette); - it has spikes that DON'T instakill you. I would forgive any platformer all their sins for that last point. You could definitely do far worse with "mostly negative" platformers on Steam - this one, at the very least, has a lot of creative merit to it. So get it at a discount, if you must - maybe then the developer will be encouraged enough to fix the broken main menu and some other non-game breaking bugs.

This game has a really enjoyable aesthetic and the animations have a ton of personality to them. Unfortunately it's shorter than most game demos. This feels more like a vertical slice than a full game but it's still charming for the price. I would love to see a full release that was at least a couple hours long.

Marvin the Hatter is a platformer-ism game where you control a small boy holding a lit candle. While making your way through the short levels you must get past various monsters, who you can kill by clicking the ground under you to set it on fire with your candle; when the monster walks over the fire, it dies. Good things about the game: it's cheap, short, and has a pretty good soundtrack. Bad things: you have to figure out how everything works because the game doesn't explain anything about its controls or mechanics. some of the levels can be difficult, but more out of unfair enemy placement, and the lack of explanations. I wanted to like this game, but it's very meh.

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meh

There isn't really much to say on this game. It's short, I beat in within 20min. It doesn't play super well, the idea of trap laying for combat is interesting in theory but not so much in practice. It's buggy but not in a funny or interesting way. There's not really a story to speak of beyond what is on the store page. It feels more like a flash game prototype from way back when. It isn't offensively bad or anything but there just isn't really much reason to play it.