Super Hamster Ball

Fun game about a hamster and their friends trying to get to the land of sunflowers. Gameplay is simple mechanically, but a lot of fun: you move left and right and try to get all the keys in the level and bring them to the door. You can only carry a limited amount of keys at a time and there's no jumping; the game relies on screen-wrapping to take out enemies and access different parts of the screen. Bosses have cool designs and made me laugh, and there's a decent challenge in trying to get all of the stars and beating the world deathless runs.

Fun little game.

After enjoying [b]The Ramsey[/b], I decided to check the developer's previous game and it's alright, even if it can't hide its mobile origins. It's very simple, just roll left and right and bring all keys in a stage to the door, although the hamster can hold only a few at a time. Enemies also release keys, so all must be stomped, and some keys are also revealed thanks to buttons of the same color. It's really all that, each world has got three levels with 5 stages each, topped by bosses that, with a single exception, stay fixed in a place as several buttons around the stage must be pressed to damage them. While later levels get naturally more challenging, they are also so small they can be figured out fairly quickly. It's a short but fairly fun time. Beside some really excellent pixel art cutscenes when unlocking other hamsters and balls, the designs of the bosses (a few of their pre-battle portraits are overdetailed to the point of becoming creepy though, especially the mole), and the cute hamsters, the graphics are merely serviceable. It's fun however to see some environments and enemies that have been eventually featured in [b]The Ramsey[/b] but with a much better art direction…