This game is not perfect, but dear god do I consider it an honorary flawless crystal of collectathon game design, in my heart at least.
This is a game where you do kids game stuff. You collect things, you fight robots, you play 3 swappable characters, and you laugh at squidward. I will not act like this game has some secret special design choice that makes it a cut above, it was mostly just...a really solid platformer!
And it was also my first, I never beat it as a kid, only recently have I completed it on an emulator. The way this game worked, it was so smooth yet so jaggy in the best ways, you had a very nice linear sand box to mess around in, but if you wanted to you could just jump up geometry and use crazy stuff to get around, the game has very little boundaries, seriously watch speedruns this game is broken in half.
The main reason it is here as my favorite game though, is that it instantly inspired me. I had only played edutainment my whole life up until i tried this game and it cracked me open like an egg. I enjoyed the game quite a bit, but what really got me was saving up enough shiny objects to go into the theater, I expected there to be a little level to complete in there...but no, it was a bunch of concept art! I had never seen concept art in my life, and seeing the visual thought process behind levels, enemies, bosses that never made it into the game, worlds before they were concrete in structure, it made me so excited! I started to draw my own levels, make my own robot designs, imagine my own characters running around drawings i made, it was magical.
It gave me brainrot too, as a kid I kept saying "if you wanna do this, press THIS button and you will do a spin attack" to random kids and my parents who had no clue what was happening. This was the start of me aspiring to be a genuine game designer, and even today I type out game design documents in google drive for that fateful day I get to actually make something...
But yeah the game is fun you can bellyflop as patrick and there is a robot with cartoon gloves that spins around and slaps you in the face. Would recommend.
This is a game where you do kids game stuff. You collect things, you fight robots, you play 3 swappable characters, and you laugh at squidward. I will not act like this game has some secret special design choice that makes it a cut above, it was mostly just...a really solid platformer!
And it was also my first, I never beat it as a kid, only recently have I completed it on an emulator. The way this game worked, it was so smooth yet so jaggy in the best ways, you had a very nice linear sand box to mess around in, but if you wanted to you could just jump up geometry and use crazy stuff to get around, the game has very little boundaries, seriously watch speedruns this game is broken in half.
The main reason it is here as my favorite game though, is that it instantly inspired me. I had only played edutainment my whole life up until i tried this game and it cracked me open like an egg. I enjoyed the game quite a bit, but what really got me was saving up enough shiny objects to go into the theater, I expected there to be a little level to complete in there...but no, it was a bunch of concept art! I had never seen concept art in my life, and seeing the visual thought process behind levels, enemies, bosses that never made it into the game, worlds before they were concrete in structure, it made me so excited! I started to draw my own levels, make my own robot designs, imagine my own characters running around drawings i made, it was magical.
It gave me brainrot too, as a kid I kept saying "if you wanna do this, press THIS button and you will do a spin attack" to random kids and my parents who had no clue what was happening. This was the start of me aspiring to be a genuine game designer, and even today I type out game design documents in google drive for that fateful day I get to actually make something...
But yeah the game is fun you can bellyflop as patrick and there is a robot with cartoon gloves that spins around and slaps you in the face. Would recommend.