Spud's Quest

its cool

Nothing but bugs and glitches. I am in chapter 3 and cannot proceed with the game because the climb ability DOES NOT WORK. Went back to double check if I picked up the scroll and I actually did. But no climbing so no more playing. Do not buy this game.

The Dizzy-styled puzzles are great; the only wild puzzle being [spoiler] a guy using a blowtorch lets you use it if you give him a newspaper. [/spoiler] Most puzzles have dialogue and descriptions to hint at their solutions, which makes it very pleasant to play. The bigger sticking points are if the player doesn't notice there are dark background vines to climb or blocks to destroy. Compared to its freeware original, the new dungeons are fun, but the added enemies and HP provide little to the experience.

So far I have to say the game seems decent enough but I do have some gripes. First off, the text covers most of the screen rather than become transparent and the box could be traditionally smaller with a smaller font. Secondly, in this day, the button layout is terrible. Dropping items to activate things is clunky and doesn't work well. Especially when it is the action button. Which also talks to people. So you give an item to someone you're going to run into problems over and over. Third, this game does not go true full screen. The taskbar still shows at the bottom, the game is still windowed. All the hype in the comments would lead me to believe these things wouldn't be as they are.

Overall i will recommend if you loved the 8-bit puzzle games and 16 bit platform games as it combines these two things nicely. it plays well, sound and music is great and those puzzles gets you thinking but the fun really starts to fade away with how annoying the game mechanics are. One you kill an enemy it'l re-spawn soon as you re-enter the room and there few opportunities to replenish your health bar.there's not limited opportunities to save your progress making it quite repetitive and frankly boring to keep having to go though the same sages over and over, More so if you die trying out a new way to solved a puzzled and then gotta do the whole thing again. It's a nice game, and well worth a look if you're into this kinda thing, i'm struggling to keep playing it due to having to repeat large parts of it but i'll keep at it, having another go from time to time. But despite that i can't bring myself to give it a thumbs down, Try it, wherever you bother to keep playing might be a different matter.

Fun platformer with well thought out puzzles. None of the temple puzzles were too difficult, just enough to make you think for a little bit. Sometimes the items you need to give NPCs or use to move forward with the story are a bit of a stretch or intentionally misleading. I liked the red herring items and didn't mind the 4 item inventory limit. The other reviews summarize the pros/cons well. It is a bit buggy. It's easy to go out of bounds and/or softlock yourself. If you save after getting softlocked your playthrough comes to an abrupt end.