Hocus Pocus

i play hocus pocus thinking it's magic game but it's just jumping and shooting jelly beans. wizard can't even fly. lame. levels all look same. bricks, more bricks, then door. i keep pulling levers but nothing happen. maybe i broke it? idk. enemies are just slime and lizards. they jump, i jump, we all jump. screen is chaos. i shoot magic and it goes pew and does nothing. music sounds like circus stuck in a blender. made my ears itch. there's no map. no save. no clues. just run, shoot, get lost, cry. i fell off platform and game just laughed at me. no checkpoints. i uninstall. FINAL SCORE: 1 wizard hat outta 10, more like Hopeless Pocus

Hocus Pocus uses its cute graphics and storytelling to make for a smooth ride through the game's atmosphere spread out across extremely simplistic combat. All you have to do is pay attention! Everything the player picks up in the levels is laid out without ambiguity and with clear indication-- nothing's hard to find unless it's supposed to be. The feedback when enemies take damage is very clear and the 'boom' when they blow up is satisfying, especially during White Potion segments. Certain parts of levels are set up so that the player is meant to charge through while taking damage; the rest involves casually jumping around back and forth while avoiding getting hit. Once you get a feel for the type of game this is, the levels are extremely easy to 'read' and understand what you're supposed to do before it comes up on-screen. Set the gameplay speed to fastest and play on Hard, and it'll be well worth it.