Pepper Grinder

前两个场景的关卡还很有意思，但从boss起就越来越凸显出游戏机制的弊端。 在钻地时不能控制快慢，转弯有一定的角度，导致每次钻入都要鼓足勇气，一个不留神就飞出去没有挽救余地。第二个boss会摧毁土地，简直噩梦，控制玩家走位的同时，控制了输出空间，也控制了落地空间，也控制了攻击节奏，完全在敌人身上表现了一个机制多种用途，而玩家还是很弱小。 勾爪也是灾难设计，不能转向，按钻地键一样是射出，不能反悔，勾着的时候撞墙上了还立刻脱手摔死，没一丝喘息机会。

Pepper grinder is a great game, unless you're going for all the achievements like I was. This game has fun gameplay, fast paced movement with a ton of level variety over the four worlds you traverse and some replayability in the form of the Time Trials. To properly get into it GAMEPLAY: the game plays great especially on controller which I think it was built with that in mind, you fling yourself around the level using your drill and your reaction time to movie around whatever surface your currently inside of, jumping over danger, drilling through enemies or controlling various vehicles you use your drill for everything in this game. There are four worlds to explore each with their own handful of worlds inside of them, ranging from swamp levels, beach levels, lava levels, ice, etc etc, each one of them having their own gimmick be it the snowmobiles in the ice, the cannons in the fourth world, the water movement in the beach levels, or the giant mech in the later stages, they are quite fun and allow for a ton of variety within each level. And then we get to the boss fights between every world theres a boss at the end, ranging from a pretty good fight in the Ice stage fighting against the rival driller, or the magma worm which I thought was pretty fun, to ok at best with the world 1 boss just being a glorified tutorial with nothing really crazy going on, to the final boss that I really did not like after having to fight it over and over again for the time trials. Otherwise the gameplays really well ARTSTYLE: The game looks like an old ds game and I really like that, with charming visuals expressive characters and some over all banger music the art team did a fantastic job with this. ACHIEVEMENTS: Overall pretty easy, just some collectibles, finish some levels, beat some bosses, and do some miscellanious stuff, but the real pain comes from trying to get the gold on every level in every world, because is required for 100% (Which that achievement bugged for me and popped early but I digress), some levels are fun and work really well with the Time trial aspect, other's do not. like the final boss, the first is whatever you can do it fairly consistently on the normal speed of the game, but for the love of god, i could not beat the second phase because I just went way to fast. i could not control my drill, and either fell into the void, or took stupid damage from stuff i could not dodge. I had to lower the games speed to .75 to even have a chance to get this achievement, and having time to react and course correct got me it in 2 or so tires compared to my 50 some odd attempts on its base speed. It was beyond irritating to die and restart because of some stupidity. so if you go for the 100% of this game, be warned some levels are great in the time trial mode, and others are not. This game is great though I suggest getting it, but maybe wait for a sale

I was drawn into this game because of the art style and a youtuber I like to watch said it was good. I agree, this is a good and unique game that is fun to play... until you hit the first boss. I am sure this is skill issue, but after 50+ tries to beat the first boss I threw in the towel. It is crazy how big the difficulty spike is. I still think this is a cool game and should be seen by more people, but I am just not sure if this one is for me.

This is a beautiful game with fantastic bosses and fun mechanics, I truly think this game only gets better the more you play. The main story can be rather short but I think the sweet spot is going for all of the big coin collectables, If you go for all of the time attack times this game starts to overstay its welcome a bit. I really hope this isn't the last we see of pepper grinder because I really enjoyed my time with this game.

Full disclosure: I should have liked this. I like most Devolver-published games. I like lots of fast-moving, fluid 2D side-scrolling indie games. I like platformers in general and polished pixelart passion projects in general. This game just [b]did not flow[/b] for me at all. Like, AT ALL. The core idea is that all movement is accomplished by drilling through patches of soft ground. You have to press the drill spin to enter, then you manage your arc while you are underground, then you have to time a 'boost' so that you launch out of the ground aimed in such a way that you land in the right place or can reach the next drillable patch. This kinda felt like falling off a surfboard over and over. Aside from the controls and gameflow, Pepper Grinder looks like it is borrowing a lot of structure from Donkey Kong Country 2. There are hidden skull coins in every level, and it looks like you find shops and can use them to buy various extras. Usually I love to hunt for secrets as I move through a level, but here I would miss them left and right and have no idea where to look. I struggled to go fast (chaining drill boosts / lining up drill launches) and struggled to go slow (find hidden coins). Anyway there must be people who 'get' this but this was not my jam [b]at all[/b]. Happy to refund it and put the $6 toward a Devolver game I will actually enjoy.

3/5. A very simple platformer that I've been waiting on since even before I got a PC. I will say, I'm not disappointed, I just think I hyped myself up too much. The gameplay is great, and the grinder controls pretty well for the most part. The most annoying thing is how gravity works when you jump out of a block but I think that's just me being bad at the game. The stickers are easy to collect and are honestly there for those who like that stuff. I'm not really a side quest person, so I was glad to see they were intrusive. I did collect all the medals which was really fun to do. The gameplay is really the focus. You aren't playing a game like this for the story. It's like expecting Mario to have a Naughty Dog story. I wish there was a little more game, and hopefully there's a sequel that borrows more from Drill Dozer (the obvious inspiration for this game)

ドリルで掘り進む爽快感が楽しいステージ攻略型のアクションゲーム。 スピードがあり少しクセのある掘削移動は操作に慣れがいるため最初はミスにつながりがちですが、慣れてしまえば思ったように進めるようになり上達を感じられて楽しいです。 速すぎて上手く操作できない場合もオプションからゲームスピードを変更できるたり、ミスをしても中間地点が多めかつ、リトライが素早くユーザーフレンドリーな作りをしていると感じました。 各ステージには通常のカジュアルプレイに加えて、タイムアタックモードがありスピードランを楽しめる方にはおススメかも。 ただ通常プレイでクリアするだけなら皆さんが書かれているようにボリュームが少ないので、一つのゲームで長く楽しみたい方には非常に不向きと思われます。 収集要素であるステッカーは、ゲーム内通貨を消費してガチャを回してのランダム排出なのですが、1枚ずつしか出てきてくれないためコンプを目指すとガチャを回す時間だけが続いてしまい、ここは非常に退屈だと感じました。 まとめて10回分とか出してくれると嬉しいと思われます。