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This got gifted to me completely outta left field by my friend Chrissy and Id been meaning to play this since it was NEW so.. i devoted a couple hours in the morning to this and i fucking 100%'d it
this is now the second game ive ever 100%'d, I even liked the TIME TRIALS
I HAVENT DONE ALL THE TIME TRIALS FOR A GAME SINCE MARIO KART FUCKING 7 ON THE 3DS LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
its just so satisfying, it kidna gives me that feel of like when youre on a plane or a rollercoast and your ballsack tingles thats what this makes me feel when i jump in Beeny :)

Its just that easy to pick up and have a good time, though now that ive thoroughly dissected the game, i doubt ill be back to it anytime soon but i love beeny and toree and kiwi and friends, looking forward to whatever little adventure they set out 2 next

[insert back to the future GIF]

ya i wound up playin this the same as im sure a lot of other ppl wound up playing this on the fly, from it being pointed out on twitter LMAO

I completely forgot Jill was a guest character in super meat boy and Im not surprised other people did too considering that this is only One game and not a series and it's an indie game from 2008 so naturally a lot of people couldve missed this orrrrrrrr theyd be like me and just never get around to it and forget organically.

You play as Jill whos a short lil freaky woman in a custom latex imp bdsm suit and she gets booted off the top of the kingdom tower for eagerly licking her queen(whos canonically trans)'s boots without permission
this is fine though because she gets off on that and any punishment inflicted by her
and if everything ive said makes it sound like its a porn game.. its actually not lol
like even the subject material itself is so scarce that you dont even see much talk of the kink except for the very start

it's suppose to be a spiritual successor to mighty jack blast(i think it was called that?) a game from the NES wayback
which is pretty fitting because indie games around this time were Really leaning more into the (this word is groan inducing now because of annoying ass ppl online) retro side of things with ppl tht played hard as dry triceratops shit video games would Now be old enough to Make Their OWNNNNNN hard as dry triceratops shit video games
hell rage games were all the.. rage! up until like early 2010s were ending
and then they got sparked again from shit like QWOP being a small nudge into what id call the birth of Bennett Foddy's Getting Over It and all that jazz

THOUGH THERE'S ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS GAME...

Its actually pretty easy!!
Like!
Really REALLY short too!
Its a free game so ofc you can get away with whatever runtime you please when its free and nobody can talk shit, and im not talkin shit, im just sayin like you can beat this game faster than someone making a video TALKING about this game
beat it in 14 minutes or less and you get access to another tower thats even harder and THAT actually feels a lot more like my speed of pain i fw it.

But yeah two endings and its a vertical platformer which is Very uncommon!! i think it was done well here and the respawn points are surprisingly generous, jill gets a lil jumpy bounce glide through the air and there's enemies but no way to actually kill them yourself. It's pretty To The Point and just aims to be a challenging vertical platformer and thats fine enough as is! But what gives it some xtra points for me is the uniqueness of such a premise and overall just how cute and sex positive this is? Im not gonna turn this review into some kink discussion page dont worry LMFAO im not doin thattt im just sayin there's Too many times in media where bdsm is weirdly depicted as this utterly volatile serial killer shit when its honestly one of the more normal freaky things someone could b down with AAAand this is a lesbian, cis & trans couple
they both clearly love each other beyond just sadism or masochism

and i think thats beautiful in its own right and pretty mature esp for 08, Anna Anthropy cooked

EDIT: Nevermind man, jfc https://x.com/zarawesome/status/1805011510613459124