ITS REALLY GOOD??? LIK,E SURPRISINGLY SO
Okay so this is a very creative idea for a platformer where you lob orbs of raw emotion at your foes to get them to do shit or calm down called 'Poins'
You can fuse them together to make a type you need but also you can platform off of them which feels like dog shit
Sometimes jumping off the poins with the hitbox you need to stand on is so finicky and slippery it (ironically enough) feels like youre standing on jelly and youre trying to find a hard bit within that jelly thatll give you a boost
I swear i didnt even realize you could get an extra powered jump out of bouncing at the right time off of one until the second to last area in the game, and that happened by pure accident of discovery because i thought it was That dumb
This hit box issue i have also transfers sometimes into when youre throwing shit and surrounding bullcrap gets in your face and takes away your poin
but uh.. dude thats really like.. my ONLY complaints for this game
Otherwise its rly... rly.. fun
So if you're one of the few onlookers here that didnt first hear about this game through watching Vinesauce, Poinie's Poin is one of those rare breeds of games where it had a fully credited english cast
everything is dubbed in menus and audio
and yet
it ONLY released in japan, not localized here in the 'states or even europe or anywhere. Something like this kinda happened with Mother 1 or as it's known in its localized form Earthbound Beginnings but Poinie's Poin hasnt got shit in 21 years and it seems like its gonna stay that way as far as I can tell. But thats ok because
this game is so fucking Funny
Most every character in Jellytown is fully voice acted and even the generics for the respective level youre going through get voice acted lines, an accent or some kind of little speaking quirk that they stick to
It's so casually fun its almost like enjoying a silly cartoon or old dubbed anime for a show that just
n e v e r e x i s t e d sometimes
The cover of the game also reflects this, it looks like a pack of candy where you can see the little gummies to snack on from beyond the seethrough plastic its GREAT
There's not just pretty great voice acting here either though, there's variety in pretty much every level and each boss has you doing something atleast a LITTLE different each time. I know I was saying before how poins can be finicky and while thats true youd be surprised to hear I wasnt ever super frustrated with the game to a point of it being soured for me because the poins regenerate in the last place you found them FAST and you dont even need to correct the emotional imbalance of every inhabitant in the area, you Can if you wanna.. but you get nothing out of it!! LMAO like no 100% bonus or nothing for it which is WEIRD but is oddly fitting for the tone and all of this game as an experience. Another thing that's very easy and forgiving about it is that youll find that every time you do something thats majorly relating to the plot, you immediately get a prompt on if you wanna manually go to the next main story thing yourself or if you wanna be teleport nudged right next to where you need to be next
It's really nice :)
final thoughts: It's a weird and funny dumb as hell B-grade ps2 platformer thats easy and not too terribly long but offers a lot of variety and silliness to experience
Eric Cartman is your companion guide for the game
This game hates french people
SO GO PLAY IT YON
PEE OR GET OFF THE POOOOOOT
YIPPIE YO SHOW THEM THEY CANT TOUCH THIS!!!! bitch.
Okay so this is a very creative idea for a platformer where you lob orbs of raw emotion at your foes to get them to do shit or calm down called 'Poins'
You can fuse them together to make a type you need but also you can platform off of them which feels like dog shit
Sometimes jumping off the poins with the hitbox you need to stand on is so finicky and slippery it (ironically enough) feels like youre standing on jelly and youre trying to find a hard bit within that jelly thatll give you a boost
I swear i didnt even realize you could get an extra powered jump out of bouncing at the right time off of one until the second to last area in the game, and that happened by pure accident of discovery because i thought it was That dumb
This hit box issue i have also transfers sometimes into when youre throwing shit and surrounding bullcrap gets in your face and takes away your poin
but uh.. dude thats really like.. my ONLY complaints for this game
Otherwise its rly... rly.. fun
So if you're one of the few onlookers here that didnt first hear about this game through watching Vinesauce, Poinie's Poin is one of those rare breeds of games where it had a fully credited english cast
everything is dubbed in menus and audio
and yet
it ONLY released in japan, not localized here in the 'states or even europe or anywhere. Something like this kinda happened with Mother 1 or as it's known in its localized form Earthbound Beginnings but Poinie's Poin hasnt got shit in 21 years and it seems like its gonna stay that way as far as I can tell. But thats ok because
this game is so fucking Funny
Most every character in Jellytown is fully voice acted and even the generics for the respective level youre going through get voice acted lines, an accent or some kind of little speaking quirk that they stick to
It's so casually fun its almost like enjoying a silly cartoon or old dubbed anime for a show that just
n e v e r e x i s t e d sometimes
The cover of the game also reflects this, it looks like a pack of candy where you can see the little gummies to snack on from beyond the seethrough plastic its GREAT
There's not just pretty great voice acting here either though, there's variety in pretty much every level and each boss has you doing something atleast a LITTLE different each time. I know I was saying before how poins can be finicky and while thats true youd be surprised to hear I wasnt ever super frustrated with the game to a point of it being soured for me because the poins regenerate in the last place you found them FAST and you dont even need to correct the emotional imbalance of every inhabitant in the area, you Can if you wanna.. but you get nothing out of it!! LMAO like no 100% bonus or nothing for it which is WEIRD but is oddly fitting for the tone and all of this game as an experience. Another thing that's very easy and forgiving about it is that youll find that every time you do something thats majorly relating to the plot, you immediately get a prompt on if you wanna manually go to the next main story thing yourself or if you wanna be teleport nudged right next to where you need to be next
It's really nice :)
final thoughts: It's a weird and funny dumb as hell B-grade ps2 platformer thats easy and not too terribly long but offers a lot of variety and silliness to experience
Eric Cartman is your companion guide for the game
This game hates french people
SO GO PLAY IT YON
PEE OR GET OFF THE POOOOOOT
YIPPIE YO SHOW THEM THEY CANT TOUCH THIS!!!! bitch.