Mr. Run and Jump

It's really good. It has quite a few flaws which I'll talk about but, overall, it's a really solid game. The gameplay is phenomenal. You can move sideways, jump and do actions with your shift button. These actions vary depending on your current location/state, let's say. If you press shift in the air you dash, if you do it while standing still you crouch, if while crouching you jump you perform a high jump, if you move you roll and if you jump while rolling you perform a super horizontal jump. You can also double jump. Double jumps are refreshed when you touch the ground. You can also wall jump, and if you exhausted your air dash you can refresh it by clinging on to a wall. The levels are really good and the art style is quite unique. I must say that the glow effect is really bright and if you are exposed to it a bit you get quite tired of it. There's an option to make the game less bright, so that's the solution to that. I really like the enemies in this game, especfially the frogs. They can be quite infuriating in later levels but they are pretty good enemies. I have two main problems with this game, which are pretty significant as this is a precision platformer. First, th…

All it took was about 30 minutes of game time to tell that this game isn't for me. Just a standard, very difficult (for me) platformer with questionable controls. There is a mode that is suppose to make the game easier but it doesn't fix the control issues for me.

No mid-level saves. Can't leave a level and come back. You have to finish the level. You're either committed to it or not. Nice aesthetic but Mr Run and Jump is the one that's trapped in the world, not me.

Leap without looking Every fall becomes a lesson Joy waits past the edge

Meh, it's alright. Challenging but not in a fun way. Got through all the stages/worlds, collected all the orbs

I really love this modern version of Atari. I’m not going to pretend every game they publish is a banger. But the ones that are good are genuinely brilliant, and it feels like the whole world is sleeping on them. The story behind Mr. Run and Jump is that it started as a homebrew project for the Atari 2600. And it’s a pretty nice platformer, which I’m saying with the full knowledge that Pitfall exists. A lesser company would’ve ignored it. Nintendo and Sega ignore homebrew on their old systems all the time. Atari looked at this and went: yeah, we can make something of this. So they did. They turned it into a modern release, while still letting the 2600 version exist as the weird little origin story it is. The game even starts with a nod to that homebrew version. Then it opens up into this full glowing neon version of the idea. And it’s a precision platformer. No gimmicks. Just tight movement and a ton of jumping options that chain together. Double jumps, dives, long jumps, wall jumps, all that stuff. You’re basically learning to fly, except the game is constantly trying to kill you for it. There are enemies everywhere, but you don’t fight them. You dodge them. Spikes, skull-lo…