Super Life of Pixel is homage to the early years of home computers and consoles. Presented as a bare bones plat former, your own personal nostalgia for the medium will greatly dictate any enjoyment you may find with this title. You play as a cube called Pixel and starting off with early home computers you make your way through the years of advancements in both graphics and music. The strongest part of the game is seeing the quality and fidelity improve as you make your way from level to level waiting for your certain nostalgia to appear. Unfortunately once the novel presentation has worn off you end up repeating the same objective in every level. Collect what you need to meet the end requirement and find the exit. All this might have been OK if it were not for the lack of any checkpoints. This becomes especially egregious as the levels become longer and the chance of you making a mistake is almost a given. Hunting around endlessly for some non descriptive collectibles while avoiding countless one hit kills is somewhat negated by some descent controls and clever variation in game play mechanics. Super Life of Pixel is a love letter to a simpler time in games, I just which it had tried to be a little more ambitious with its content.

Reviewed on Aug 09, 2021


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