Peblito: Rock and Roll

No controller support. I hate a WASD 3D platformer.

"Peblito: Rock and Roll" is a student project from Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, and while gamers obviously have reservations about every single homework assignment students get being dumped on Steam, this time we have an unusual entry of remarkably high quality. Certainly, the students passed. This is a slightly retro third person platformer has a cutesy rock theme, is well polished, has a modestly okay amount of content. What do you do in the game? Third person platforming, obviously. There's minor puzzle elements and hidden item collection stuff as a focus for the gameplay, not too different from Mario Galaxy and so on. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. Here, you get a reasonably even match, enough to give this a pass. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady prici…

You get what you pay for and this was free :-) That being said, what I liked: -Collecting fruit -The atmosphere of the levels was cute and cozy -The credits included gameplay rolling down the ramp so you aren't passively sitting and waiting. What I didn't like: -If you need to jump in order to use a button for a move, please indicate that you must always jump first. Add the "A" button to the how-to displays (for controller). -It wasn't always clear where to go next, especially in very dark areas of the game and during the rising lava section, especially if it didn't work to walk up the fallen columns. -The guy you meet up who tells you to collect the fruit adds zero value to the story most of the time. How is he seeing what Peblito is seeing? Unless Peblito has a body cam, this makes literally no sense. -Some of the level designs are a bit off. In the last area before getting to the tree's heart, some of the angles you swing at are very awkward and it takes a couple of tries unless you get lucky the first time. It didn't flow well. -There was quite a bit of lagging in some sections like after going into a new area. -I collected the fruit at the end after destroying the crystals…

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I can only offer my highest possible compliment “it’s Better than Knack 2”

The game is poorly optimized, and the game has no useful settings that can give me a better experience (like disable motion blur).