Cute little Game Boy platformer released in '92 featuring a cute and round protagonist? Yeah this is coincidentally quite a bit like Kirby, but Sunsoft made it and it has an extremely Sunsoft soundtrack that absolutely rips and could be in a game where everything isn't quite this adorable.
Your little round boy has a few transformations they can do whenever, letting you swim in one case and fly in the other, and there are also a handful of temporary transformations you can use by eating fruit powerups. None of this actually matters beyond looking charming. And they do, with loads of sprites and animation and just amazing charm for a GB title. But I beat the whole game before I knew the flying mode even existed, and the flower ability is an actual detriment most of the time it appears.
None of that matters. Trip World boldly asks us: why does a game need enemies? Why can it not simply have friends? A plurality of the enemies are either nonthreatening or close enough that I didn't notice, and this is good because your kick move has like zero range. You just hang out and enjoy how lovely everything is and then get roasted by the handful of actual challenges. One of them is the final boss, which is a huge difficulty spike! Also, there's no continues, but the level select code is both easy to pull off and very generous. In this way I think the game's reputation for being easy is a little overblown: it IS easy but you won't actually clear it in 20 minutes unless you use the cheat code.
I dunno that you should buy whatever clown car special edition that Limited Run is dreaming up but the game is very nice. Imagine if we got as many of these as we have Kirbys. God that would kick ass.
Your little round boy has a few transformations they can do whenever, letting you swim in one case and fly in the other, and there are also a handful of temporary transformations you can use by eating fruit powerups. None of this actually matters beyond looking charming. And they do, with loads of sprites and animation and just amazing charm for a GB title. But I beat the whole game before I knew the flying mode even existed, and the flower ability is an actual detriment most of the time it appears.
None of that matters. Trip World boldly asks us: why does a game need enemies? Why can it not simply have friends? A plurality of the enemies are either nonthreatening or close enough that I didn't notice, and this is good because your kick move has like zero range. You just hang out and enjoy how lovely everything is and then get roasted by the handful of actual challenges. One of them is the final boss, which is a huge difficulty spike! Also, there's no continues, but the level select code is both easy to pull off and very generous. In this way I think the game's reputation for being easy is a little overblown: it IS easy but you won't actually clear it in 20 minutes unless you use the cheat code.
I dunno that you should buy whatever clown car special edition that Limited Run is dreaming up but the game is very nice. Imagine if we got as many of these as we have Kirbys. God that would kick ass.