Gene

I bought this game for my daughter and ended up playing it with her! It wasn't quite what I was expecting as I thought it would be a quick platformer. Instead I was really surprised by the huge levels and the detail involved. I wouldn't say it was a puzzle game, but there are skills you need to understand to progress which shows a lot of thought has gone into this. It looks like it is all in the same back drop so maybe some different scenes would be nice. Overall it is a really nice, fun game to play. The graphics are simple but that is all it needs, as the detail in the game play is really good. This is a game we will return to on a Sunday afternoon.

[h1]A pleasant typical old-school platformer, referring to and styling itself with Sonic[/h1] The difficulty balance is decent, plus a lot of ideas for diversifying the gameplay will ensure that people who like this type of atmosphere will not get bored quickly, the only drawback for me was the graphics or rather the lopsidedness of models/animation, but still, since it's supposed to fit into a certain outline of a retro game, you can get over it. If you can find it in the bundle and you like this type of game, it's worth a try, it may not be something incredibly extra, but it's a reasonable paltformer in which you can find a challenge.

Had a lot of fun playing this with my 6 year old already! Looking forward to going back to some of the older levels once we have more mutations to try new things out.

Really disappointing. Thought this would be a good game to play with my son, but there's better stuff for free on ipad.

This is one of those times where I wish there was more than a simple yes or no answer for whether or not I recommend this game to others. Given the low asking price, I suppose I'll have to give it a thumbs-up. For collectors and completionists, or people looking for a mindless game to play while listening to podcasts, Gene will be an interesting enough distraction for the four or so hours it takes to beat - or even less if you aren't trying to fully complete every level. Gene is, from start to finish, an incredibly simple side-scrolling platformer. You play the titular Gene, a little blue alien with big eyes facing a bit of bad luck. After your space ship starts smoking for entirely unknown reasons, it crashes hard enough to break apart into twenty different pieces. Those parts, as well as a bunch of gems that one of the game's generic enemies steals for equally mysterious reasons, are spread across fifteen levels. The main gimmick of Gene is mutation. You start off as a blue version of the character, whose abilities include being able to travel through teleportation spheres and moving faster when there are boost arrows in the background. From there, you'll find five other colors…