Super Win the Game doesn't really build on the elements of You Have to Win the Game that made it so fun to play. Tight, difficult and creative platforming is replaced with very obvious layouts that rarely surprised or tested me. The game also feels too big and checkpoints are too far apart, so on the rare cases that the game does throw a tough room at you you'll be spending much of your reset time simply getting back to it.

I also didn't appreciate the top-down world map. It's fittingly retro, but in a bad way. I think committing to a fully-interconnected world would have made more sense, especially because the game already has elements of that.

Overall, Super Win the Game feels like a stretched-out copy of its predecessor. Decent enough, but inferior to its own free version.

Reviewed on Nov 24, 2023


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