[b]5/10[/b]
Help the monkey eat all the bananas!
[b]What is it:[/b] A very simple Sokoban-like puzzle, but the Sokoban elements are minimal. You play as a monkey trying to eat bananas. Each level has a few crates full of bananas, and the main goal is to get to all of them. After you've done that, the goal becomes to reach the door and exit the level. Standing in your way are movable crates (no bananas inside though), unmovable stone blocks that can be destroyed using bombs, spikes, bouncy jellos, fragile tiles that will fall a few seconds after you step on them, holes you can fall into, and different types of enemies that only wake up when the last banana has been picked up. There is a lot of "precision" timing involved: bombs explode about 3 seconds after you put them down, so you need to get out of the way, the fragile tiles, the timed spikes, and the enemies move or throw rocks at you. And I put "precision" in quotes because everything is very relaxed, it's more waiting for things to move than dashing as fast as possible.
So, the game is about getting bananas, sometimes moving or blasting things out of the way, and dodging the enemies. About half of the levels are easier than trivial, you just have to go get the bananas, no enemies chasing you and almost no thinking required to figure out which boxes to move out of the way. The other half is more about timing than thinking. Only a handful of levels require thinking how to move boxes. This is barely Sokoban.
[b]How hard is it:[/b] Trivial to easy.
[b]How long is it:[/b] 100 levels split in 5 worlds, only the last one a little bit challenging. Must be done in order, no skipping allowed, but no skipping is required either given how easy all the levels are. Can be finished in 1-2 hours.
[b]Level design:[/b] Meh. None impressed me, but they aren't very bad either.
[b]Quality:[/b] Poor. The only setting available is toggling off fullscreen, and it only lasts until you close the game, next time it starts fullscreen again. And the window is not resizable. 100 spammy achievements, one for each level. An annoying bug is that sometimes you barely push a crate so it blocks the spot in front of it even though it's not [b]on[/b] that spot.
[b]Worth the price:[/b] If you're looking for a very simple game to pass an hour or two, maybe wait for a discount.
[b]Most positive aspect for me:[/b] Can't think of anything I enjoyed.
[b]Most negative aspect for me:[/b] Too easy.
[b]Also consider:[/b]
[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592880/Sokocat__Islands/?curator_clanid=25928931]Sokocat Islands[/url], cute and easy Sokoban with a pet, but much better done.
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