Froggo Swing 'n Grapple
released on Nov 30, 2022
Froggo Swing 'n Grapple is a retro platformer game about a little frog on an adventure. Swing 'n grapple through the stages with Froggo's powerful and sticky tongue!
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Cute game on Steam where you play as a frog. I wish it played better with a controller because I am really uncoordinated when trying to use mouse and keyboard. Really glad it had unlimited continues too.
This game has so much to offer as a platformer, the core mechanic of swinging with your tongue is really fun to play around with once you get the hang of it (took me until probably after the witch's tower to get the hang of it properly) and the other smaller mechanics unique to each level/boss fight were super cool too.
I don't speedrun games but this game felt like it would be fantastic for speedrunning. The sheer speed you can pick up with just swinging, if you can get it right, is exhilarating.
As well as this, the whole game was made by one developer, and they even have a YouTube channel where they post devlogs and other related stuff (Called Smelly Frog, as of writing this), their channel is how I knew about this game in the first place.
While I did manage to mostly get the hang of the controls in the end, I will say it was really difficult figuring out how to maneuver effectively with Froggo's tongue at the start.
I could just be bad at the game, but I also found some of the boss fights to be super difficult. The amount of time that you have to attack them was tiny, and sometimes it was hard to figure out their patterns for when exactly they would 'lower their guard'. I felt this especially in the first boss, probably because it was the first one and I wasn't fully acquainted with the controls just yet, though.
That being said the boss fights were all very unique and interesting. I also loved how more and more mechanical the stages got as you progressed, it really made you feel like you were advancing as Froggo becomes the only thing on screen that's bright green.
I do wish I could've rated this higher than 3 stars, but I didn't enjoy it enough to rate any higher than that. Overall, though, this game was good. If platformers are your thing and you want to support a smaller game developer then I'd say give this a shot- you might just love it.
I don't speedrun games but this game felt like it would be fantastic for speedrunning. The sheer speed you can pick up with just swinging, if you can get it right, is exhilarating.
As well as this, the whole game was made by one developer, and they even have a YouTube channel where they post devlogs and other related stuff (Called Smelly Frog, as of writing this), their channel is how I knew about this game in the first place.
While I did manage to mostly get the hang of the controls in the end, I will say it was really difficult figuring out how to maneuver effectively with Froggo's tongue at the start.
I could just be bad at the game, but I also found some of the boss fights to be super difficult. The amount of time that you have to attack them was tiny, and sometimes it was hard to figure out their patterns for when exactly they would 'lower their guard'. I felt this especially in the first boss, probably because it was the first one and I wasn't fully acquainted with the controls just yet, though.
That being said the boss fights were all very unique and interesting. I also loved how more and more mechanical the stages got as you progressed, it really made you feel like you were advancing as Froggo becomes the only thing on screen that's bright green.
I do wish I could've rated this higher than 3 stars, but I didn't enjoy it enough to rate any higher than that. Overall, though, this game was good. If platformers are your thing and you want to support a smaller game developer then I'd say give this a shot- you might just love it.