Pumpkin Jack

(¯`·._)♣ ♤ ♥♠ villanueva-9 ♣ ♤ ♥♠(¯`·._) El heredero espiritual definitivo de MediEvil y Jak & Daxter. Si extrañas los plataformas de acción en 3D de la época de los 128 bits, Pumpkin Jack es una carta de amor a esa era dorada. Creado de forma brillante por un desarrollador en solitario, el juego derrocha carisma, color y diversión por los cuatro costados. • Ambientación e historia divertidísima: Encarnar al villano Jack, el mítico señor de la calabaza enviado por el mismísimo Diablo para destruir el bien, es genial. El humor negro, los diálogos con tu compañero el cuervo y la atmósfera de "pesadilla antes de Navidad" te atrapan desde el primer nivel. • Combate y Dificultad equilibrada: El sistema de combate es rápido, fluido y muy arcade. A medida que avanzas desbloqueas nuevas armas (como la guadaña o la escopeta) que cambian el ritmo de las peleas. La dificultad está muy bien medida: las secciones de plataformas y los jefes finales te exigen precisión, pero el juego nunca llega a ser frustrante gracias a unos puntos de control muy bien repartidos. • Variedad de mecánicas: El juego rompe constantemente la monotonía. Tan pronto estás saltando entre plataformas como huyendo en vagonetas a toda velocidad, resolviendo puzles ingeniosos donde manejas solo la cabeza de Jack, o participando en divertidas fases musicales sobre raíles. • Apartado audiovisual impecable: El estilo artístico "low-poly" estilizado se ve espectacular gracias a una iluminación soberbia (con soporte para Ray Tracing en PC). La banda sonora es una absoluta maravilla, mezclando temas tétricos con ritmos marchosos que te acompañan genial en la aventura. Una aventura compacta, sumamente pulida y hecha con un cariño tremendo. Un imprescindible absoluto en tu biblioteca de Steam, especialmente para jugar en la época de Halloween. _____________8__88_____8 ____________88_8__8_____8 ___________888_____88___88888 __________8888______88_8____88 _________8888_______88______8_8 _________8888_______88______8_8 _________8888_______8_______8 _________8888_____8_______8 __________88888____8______8 ___________8888888______8 __888_________88888_8 8888888________88_____ _8888888_______8_____ __888888_______88_____ ___88_____8_____8_____ ____8______8____8_____8_88 _______8888_8__88_8_88888 _____888888_8_88__8888888 ____8888888__88______88888 ____88888_____8_________888 ____88_________8__________8 _____8_________8_____ _______________8_____ ____________8_8_____ _____________88_8_____ ______________88_____ ______________8_____

It's very obvious when you start playing this game that Pumpkin Jack is a throwback title. And to some, red alarms may already be ringing in their head. Throwback games can be good, but in my experience of playing many of the throwback games (Especially in the Retro FPS/Boomer Shooter category), they can be extremely lacking. Many throwback games wants to be like specific classics and that's the problem. They take gigantic bunches of gameplay from one game, another bunch of design from another and a redundant art style from another and smash them all together to make something that doesn't feel like it's own thing, but rather a style over substance copycat done poorly. And there's been a lot of style over substance throwbacks in the past few years. However, Pumpkin Jack isn't a style over substance throwback. It's actually quite excellent! It's a game with tons of charm, endearing from beginning to end. It's memorable characters, smartly crafted humor, really solid story and superb platforming make this a game that really hits all the right notes for me. It may take some time to get used to the controls which may seem awkward, but it becomes natural as you continue on and it's clear that Jack's levels are built around the controls which some 3D Platformers just fail to get. You can have the best movement system of all time, but if the levels don't compliment the controls, your game is pretty much toast. I've played stuff like Lunistice and Cavern of Dreams which just absolutely fail to get you behind the levels because of how poor the design is, but in Pumpkin Jack, everything feels like it was made for each other. The chemistry between level and control is great. It helps that there are many ways to break up gameplay from cart races, on rails sections and parts where you can control Jack's pumpkin head to solve puzzles. The game is also action heavy, with simplistic attacks using six weapons that unlock in all of the six levels going forward. It reminds me a bit of Pac-Man World 3, but it's absolutely not a carbon copy. Jack instead feels like it takes broad influences from Gamecube/PS2 platformers, but mainly is about celebrating the spooky nature of Halloween with simple but effective areas and creepy remixes of classical music. The game is also just really funny as Jack's interactions with everyone is just great. I absolutely would recommend this one to people looking for 3D Platformers to play. Pumpkin Jack is just excellent and I loved pretty much every moment of it. This is also the developer's first game, but it already feels future proofed to be timeless. I'm looking forward to trying out their other games. A must play absolutely!

Honestly, If you are looking for a short platformer game and don't really care too much about story this game could fill that want. However, The issue with pumpkin jack in my opinion is sometimes the platforming can be a bit sloppy or slow (specifically when traversing beams where you cant even jump properly and have to take a long route). The combat is a bit hit and miss, it has it's hack and slash elements but the different weapons kind of all feel useless and not very impactful. It's not a game I would go back too because of how repetitive it really is, for example, they will introduce a minigame but use that minigame at least twice, and most of them are pretty boring. You have a matcher minigame, 2 cart minigames, and a few more that are just pretty boring to play and slow the game down. Lastly, the last boss in the game is one of the easiest boss fights iv ever had. This made it feel really unrewarding since the story was kind of meh (a story about a villain stopping another villain wow so compelling). So overall if you just want to play a platformer that is short this might be fine for you the issue is it is competing with other platformers and there's so many more out there that I would prefer to play then Pumpkin Jack.

Топовая игра смотрел её в ютубе и наконец то поиграл, она довольно котороткая но диалоги офигенные особенно когда тебе их читает друг по демке который нормально читать не умеет.

Дуже хороший та якісний екшн-платформер. Коротка, але неймовірно приємна та весела інді-гра. Тут досить велика кількість різних пазлів, хорошого платформеру, різні режими та непогані боссфайти. Все зроблено дуже грамотно та з душею. Але важливо розуміти, що гра неймовірно проста, ви можете пройти її всього за вечір-два. Вона не претендує на щось грандіозне і точно не може похвалитися глибиною ігрового процесу, але все, що в ній є, добре виконано! І це насправді дуже хороший знак, адже краще створити щось просте та добре зроблене, ніж тяп-ляп щось комплексне. Такі розробники викликають повагу!

I really enjoyed the game, from the beginning to the end. There are so many different types of mini games, for example, the car racing game was a surprise for me.

If you love Crash Bandicoot and MediEvil, don't ask any more questions. If you know, you know. Kudos to Yohan Jager for writing an amazing spooky harrypotterish soundtrack for this game.

lovely game enjoyed the little adventure , love the humor too definitely recommend it if you enjoy platformer and a short fun game

feels bland

Que joguinho bom pra passar o tempo, e com uma história simples mas direto ao ponto. Esse jogo também pode servir de inspiração pra quem quer desenvolver seu próprio jogo. Nunca desista, se essa for sua intenção. Recomendo a todos!