Mekazoo

状況に合わせて使用する動物を切り替えながら進む横スクロールアクション。 ソニックやスーパードンキーコングにインスパイアされたゲームと知り購入。 流れるBGMはデビッド・ワイズ氏の楽曲にかなり影響を受けている印象で良曲が多い。 肝心のゲームプレイはあまり快適とは言えず、操作性はソニックに近く動作がピーキーで非常に扱いづらい。 また、タイムアタックや特定の敵の撃破数などやりこみ要素が豊富だが、 後半はそういった条件を満たさなければ先に進めない仕様となり、強制的にやり込まざるを得なくなるのが苦痛。 豊富なアイディアによって作られたゲームである事は伝わってくるが、残念ながらその多くの要素がストレスに繋がっていると感じてしまった。

I was pleasantly surprised by this game. If you had told me, "Hey, try this platformer where only 1/5 characters jump," I might be skeptical, but Mekazoo makes it work, and makes it fun. You have 5 unlockable characters who have different strengths, and you will complete parts of levels with some combination of one or two characters at a time. The armadillo dashes quickly, the frog uses his tongue to swing and attack, the wallaby jumps, the bear climbs, and the bird flies. Luckily they never make you choose between all 5 at the same time (I was initially afraid of how that would be accomplished properly). It's rather elegant, because you basically just move, activate their specialty move, or switch to your other character available to traverse the level, completing acrobatics, taking out enemies, or finding objects. In fact, the levels feel very different based upon which characters are activated at the same time. For instance, one of the specialty badges you earn to unlock bosses and challenge levels (not technically required), is by finding a secret character combination switcher in the level which requires you to traverse parts of the level with a different combination of powers than you may have done before (sometimes it's more fun the other way too). The plot drives the action, and keeps things moving with no dialogue (very nicely done, and even has a twist), the graphics are fantastic (although I had to disable g-sync and go high fps only, still ran at 120+ so not that big a deal), colors pop, and you earn specialty costumes and colors by earning gems through combat and collection. Very surprising gem, and I hope there's another game like it!