Plastiland

Just another port from a mobile game, which is not bad perse but this kind of gameplay just don't hold on a PC. Is Cut the rope wannabe with a nice aesthetic, but not much more. The Pacing is slow, and the music and sounds awful and annoying. Probably a good mobile game, not for PC thou. It says TAP TO START , TAP TO START!!!! they dont even change that, that's how little they care about their game

[h1]A gorgeous and quite challenging puzzle[/h1] Plastiland is basically a whimsical and colorful version of Lemmings. It's all about managing a number of cutesy ball-creature-thingies, so that they can travel through the map and get to the exit safely. Don't be fooled by some other reviews suggesting that the game is targeted at 4-years-olds: I'm about 7 times that age, and I still managed to fail at some stages — in the beginning of the first world, no less. To summarize: if you enjoy puzzles, get this one.

OMG! It’s modern Lemmings!: When I graduated primary school (elementary school for those of you in North America) my Christmas gift that year (school year runs Jan-Dec due to the seasons being changed in the southern hemisphere) one of the very first games that I became addicted to was Lemmings. I loved that game. The entire premise around Lemmings and the cute way in which it was represented was everything that a near-teen could want in a puzzle game. You could play it properly and beat it or you could be sadistic and watch them die mercilessly. Plastiland brings much of the charm that I had in Lemmings back in spades and does it well. Beautiful art work: There is absolutely no doubting the quality of the handmade art work in Plastiland. It took the artists twelve months to produce the high quality artwork that you see in the game and it absolutely delivers. Plastiland is very pleasing on the eyes and is a joy to play as a direct result. Nice soundtrack: It would have been a great pity had the soundtrack behind the game failed given how beautiful the artwork is. However, it’s catchy and never feels as though it becomes too repetitive or boring. In fact, I’d like to see Zillion Whales add the soundtrack to the Steam store preferably for free but if they even asked for a dollar or two more for it it’d be worth the added price. It’s not as easy as it looks: Plastiland offers players greater challenge than what one would initially appear. The tutorial is brilliant as it teaches you all of the basics that you need to successfully play the game. However, from that point on there isn’t a lot of hand holding and the solutions are often not as simple as they look. This is a really good thing because it means that everything else that is great about the game doesn’t go to waste. Please add achievements: Puzzle games without Steam achievements have quickly become one of my gaming pet peeves. There is no reason whatsoever that your game should lack them and every possible reason to gain from having them – especially when you factor in global achievements. They allow you to know what your player base has done in your game and that in turn will give you ideas on what you need to improve in that game and what things you can do for your future games. Plastiland isn’t the greatest puzzle game ever made and it doesn’t pretend to be. It is, however, a beautiful game that will appeal to people of all ages and offers something for everyone. Don’t be surprised when your six year old finds the solution to a puzzle before you. For more reviews similar to this one and our daily giveaways please visit http://www.steamified.com/

Intro Plastiland is a side-scroller puzzle-platformer that combines creative clay graphics, playful bouncy music, and a challenging yet open level design to deliver an engaging experience that will surely captivate puzzle-platformer enthusiasts. Graphics The graphics are akin to a sort of clay animation like you’d see in Wallace and Gromit. That’s where the comparison ends though, where Wallace and Gromit may appear as bleak and bland in terms of the colors, Plastiland’s colors are bright, cheery, optimistic, varied, and heavily contrasting. I thoroughly enjoyed the graphics, it was a trip down memory lane yet a refreshing experience that diverges from the graphics in many puzzle-platformers on Steam today. Sound The sound is pretty cool to me, it was probably the biggest surprise of the entire game to me. The music is fun and playful – reminds me of the type of music you would hear at a state fair. It definitely adds to the overall atmosphere of the game. The sound effects are another strong suit and happen to fairly accurate. For example, if you let one of your spheres hit the ground, you hear a “SPLAT!” and it correctly corresponds to the splat that you see on the screen. Gameplay The gameplay is fairly straightforward. The player must guide a finite amount of spherical creatures that are constantly moving from Point A (A Green Pipe) to Point B (A Red Pipe). The player controls these spherical creatures by changing them into a variety of forms in order to get them past a variety of obstacles in the level. There are eight forms to be exact. The first form is the Roller, which is the main character. The second form is the Bomber, which disrupts and explodes in the environment after 3 seconds. The third form is the Crusher, which makes a vertical passage. The fourth form is the Crawler, which can crawl up on any wall. The fifth form is the Blocker, stop any other ball. The sixth form is the Builder, which expands to make a passage. The seventh form is the Chewer, which makes a horizontal passage. The eighth form is the Jumper, which can fall from any height. The player starts with a limited number of uses for each form. Each use allows the player to change one sphere into that specific form. The number of uses for each form varies and changes depending on the level which is where part of the challenge comes in. You have to make lemons out of lemonade. The gameplay requires you to think outside of the box and repeat levels constantly. The final note that I would add for the gameplay would be that beating levels is sort of similar to the ultra-popular mobile game “Cut the Rope” – the more spheres you get in the red pipe, the higher number of stars you will receive upon the completion of the level. You can receive anywhere from 1, 2, or 3 stars upon completion of a level. Overall Thoughts This is a great little under-the-radar game as far as I am concerned. It’s a puzzle-platformer that does its job well. It’s fairly original when compared to many puzzle-platformers, you’re not going to find that repetitive 8-bit or 16-bit retro aesthetic that seems to be all the rage on Steam these days. However, you are going to get a cheerful, optimistic atmosphere that is highlighted by a rich, warm soundtrack that permeates through your side-scrolling form-changing gameplay.

The game is really childlish and very lemmings (do you remember lemmings? it's a resurgence in different setting & style). The gameplay is a real-time puzzle. The art is truly plastic and I would say remarkable and exceptoinal. If you're 4-7 years old you should like the game.

Tags: Casual - Lemmings & Snake Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Play these instead http://store.steampowered.com/app/72400/Clones/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/252750/MouseCraft/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/260330/Flockers/ Outstanding Issues: +No Controller Support +No Resolution options +Clunky Tablet User Interface +Confusing setting (what are those round things why can they morph the way they do) +Glitchy (Pressing ESC to access Menu instead permanently lowered screen brightness) +Poor optimization on PC causing coil whine that much more demanding games never cause +Animations do not mesh well with the claymation environment (a creature eating through claymation will just leave an ugly path of cheap 2D tiles in its path where nice claymation style used to be) +No ability to pause and issue commands then unpause

Listen. Those jerks in those other reviews? They don't know what's good. I've played every iteration of Lemmings known to man. Even that weird Russian one that they don't talk about. So, I think it's safe to say that I would know if this was a bad game. It isn't. Maybe the problem is that these OTHER reviewers don't know how to play it. So, I'm sorry that they're bad at games but that's no reflection on the actual game itself. Plastiland is a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it. Sure, it may be a mobile port but a competent one. The only problem I ran into is when I seemed to outsmart the game, it just made some of my little blobs disappear. Other than that, the only problem I found is that I wasn't smart during some levels. That's all. So, in summation and closing and furthermore henceforth.. this game is lovely. You should buy it. You should also play Lemmings. <3

I bought Plastiland with a coupon but I only recommend it if you buy it on sale or with a coupon

There are a few problems in this game that make it so that I cannot recommend this game. This is obviously a port of a mobile game, where it is only 2.99 USD, and has the same features and levels. The title says "Touch to Start", obviously showing lack of detail in the port. Gameplay is slow, and, even if it is thoughtful, it is more of a time consumer, more fit for a train ride or bus commute. The asthetic is nice-ish, but looks choppy (which could just be a stop-motion esque look), but there are also bugs in the tutorial, softlocking the game. This is better as a mobile game than a good PC game, with no extra features or levels to justify the 5 dollar mark-up.

Bacana. Plastiland 5/10 Heisen