Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel

If you see this review, I suggest you buy the full Slime-san game. This is a free update for the original game, but I still bought because I want to try the game on Steam instead of only on Switch. I have no regrets. It's a good add-on that's only a bit buggy or annoying to control in some places. The game's levels shine in terms of good design and being fun to speedrun.

Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This is in many ways a ripoff of Super Meat Boy, except your slime trail is green instead of red. Truly amazing innovation here... ugh. It's a "Frustration" platformer, made extra difficult on purpose, because retrying levels all the time means the developer didn't have to make a lot of levels, and that would involve hard work, so they didn't do it. Just like real graphics require hard work, so this has pixelcrap "art" instead. See the pattern here? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. To make matters worse, while lazy, low quality pixel "art" has been used, making the game look bad, many elements of the game aren't done with pixelcrap... which accomplishes a couple of things. Fir…

This is a really tough game. Out of all the puzzle platformers I've played, I've never encountered one that tests your platforming skills AND your puzzle skills at the same time to this degree of difficulty. You have to simultaneously figure out the correct logical move to make while executing a platforming challenge. Your character can shift between two colors to maneuver through 2-colored obstacles. You can also shift between being tangible and intangible to go through or climb obstacles. So all together, you have 4 different states to be at any given time. You also have a double jump and a dash that reset upon landing and clinging to a wall that you need to keep track of as well. And then there's the level gimmicks that you must also manage their rules. All while you're struggling with the controls and being able to quickly execute the correct state shift and jump or dash. In total, the game presents a platforming puzzle level where you must figure out the logical sequence of moves in your arsenal that will make you navigate the obstacles and reach the end. THEN you have to execute that platforming and state shifting sequence to reach the end. That's all well and good, and …