I always knew that investors would be the ones to bring the devastation of the world!

It's always interesting to see people that mostly operate in other fields of art give a go to videogame making; I was not familiar with MrSuicideSheep previously to this —and by that I mean that I had never heard a single song from them channel until now—, but seeing as their channel serves more as a space for compilations of different electronic music, I wouldn't have expected this in a million years... especially considering Sheepy: A Short Adventure is an extremely enjoyable bite-sized platformer.

It's full of little things that make it a joy to go through; it's bursting with easter eggs and details, from collectables to silly stuff like reach mach speed while running on top of a spinning chair, little moments and extras both in the open and some actually pretty hidden and rewarding to reach, small additions to an already vibrant and sound world.

You know you got some stellar sound effects when it's satisfying to navigate through the menus to listen to the jingles. The OST itself is pretty good, I'm usually not a fan of cinematic-electro songs but in here they work quite well, especially during the major set-pieces, but what had me in awe was the sound design as a whole, a perfect accompaniment that envelops your ears and makes every single action rewarding, and every single mistake hurt a little bit more. It's an immaculate work, a achievement that goes hand in hand with one of the sweetest character pixel arts I've seen in a while.

With some exceptions, the zones and level themselves aren't anyhing crazy, they are mostly carried by some smaller details and unexpected effects, but other than that this isn't any different to other post-apocalyptic underground setting you could think off and no area really stuck in my mind except the final one, but then there's the characters. Sheepy, Patches and even the scattered critters are beautifully animated, buttery-smooth levels of animation that would be impressive as a standalone animation, but instead we get to play and interact with it.

Sheepy isn't a ground-breaking game nor it presents a novel idea, in fact for most of it's length it's a pretty average platformer with no particularly engaging challenges, but it presents new interesting mechanics as it goes on that make it incredibly fun to move around and every time I got to use them was amazing, it pulls off some pretty fun boss fights, it tells it's story with all the words it needs. The team has already shown desire to expand or explore new ideas and I'm so glad they are, because the potential is already palpable, but even if they weren't, as a stand-alone game Sheepy is so damn easy to like.

It’s a passion project made by people that clearly loved what they were doing during the whole development, and that's clear from the get-go. I'll be looking forward to see if the next adventure of this adorable little sheep happens and what that will have in store...