Hop Drop

Gameplay first. Gameplay only, really. It's a combination of Crazy Taxi and Spiderman but you have wacky spring stilts instead of webs. The music is funky and the gameplay is chill, yet fast. As far as I can tell, there's nothing to do aside from deliver packages. There's some light exploration but it's mostly for achievements and not impactful to the gameplay. I got all but the highest rank in a little under an hour and the highest seems pretty strict. Will likely take some dedication and memorization that I may not have. I'm glad I played it. If the trailer looks interesting, give it a shot, just know that that's all there is. Try it out, H.O.E.

You bounce around the map, you do fetch/deliver quests. That's it. You earn money but there's nothing to spend it on. At the moment your time runs out it cuts to a results screen and you can try again. There is little, if anything, to it. There's not really ways to get higher or cooler jumps, theres not really a set of movement mechanics to master, it's just kinda bouncing around from A->B. I found the camera angle frustratingly close to my player, making it very difficult to predict where my leaps would land me. This combined with the character's ability to accelerate while in the air made for what I found to be an overall annoying platforming experience. If you hit a wall or a car, you rag-doll in slow-mo and invariably lose your current delivery. With the limited content, mechanics, environment and general lack of gameplay polish, I can't really recommend this one. It feels more like a well rounded tech demo or vertical slice, that a total game.

This game centers on a fun mechanic that's easy to pick up, yet takes effort to master. It can be enjoyed as either zen experience, or a race to deliver organs and grasp higher ranks. The only questions I'm left with are about what's up with their society to need so many organ deliveries in a day.

I played this game because it got my interest. I like the steam capsule art and I watched some gameplay and it seemed fun. I bought the game, but I got really disappointed with the lack of features such as progression, other mechanics, levels, etc. You earn money, but there's nothing to spend on. If you bump on walls enough times or at a certain speed (I can't tell which one because the game does not make it clear), you enter ragdoll mode and it slows you down from completing the delivery. It should have a health bar or some kinda of way to inform the player about the bumping on walls mechanic. The music choice is good. The city is nicely built. I would recommend this game if it was cheaper like 2 or 3 dollars, but 7 dollars for a game that feels like a game jam game, I cannot recommend it.

[h3]BIRDMAN THERAPY[/h3] Hop Drop is wild on paper — sprinting across rooftops, bouncing off cars and racing through deliveries. But in practice? It’s peaceful, almost zen-like. A perfect little escape [b]10/10[/b]