SPITLINGS

A fast-paced party platformer taking simple gameplay and creating nail-biting challenges from it. [hr][/hr] Spitlings tasks you and up to three friends with beating a series of short bullet hell levels, each taking up a single screen and containing a number of bouncing balls which will kill you in a single touch. Completing a level requires you to destroy all of these balls, which you can do by hitting them with your spit, i.e. a physics-controlled projectile. Balls come in different sizes, with larger ones splitting into multiple smaller balls upon being destroyed, requiring strategic thinking in order to prevent a flood of balls from overwhelming you. Dying resets the current level you’re in, which happens basically instantly and is rarely too frustrating, given the short length of levels. Multiplayer tends to make things a bit more difficult, as a single player dying will reset the level, making coordination and teamwork essential in order to succeed. You can spit either above or below your character, with the latter option giving the additional benefit of propelling your character upwards, thus improving your limited move set, which otherwise only allows moving left or right. You may only spit 10 times, before having to refill your spit, either by picking up previously fired projectiles from the ground or by slowly recharging, leaving you standing still helplessly. Your current ammo amount is displayed by the teeth (or similar features) of your character, which will start to disappear as your remaining spit depletes, making for a rather elegant indicator. You’ll probably want to start out playing through Spitlings’ story mode, which has you complete a linear list of levels introducing various gameplay elements while gradually ramping up the difficulty. Levels are split into packs of three, with you having to complete all three back-to-back in order to advance to the next pack. Three of these packs make up one of 12 worlds, each of which introduces unique gameplay components, which very much keeps things fresh and creates a nice difficulty curve. This gameplay is framed by a simple story told through short comics you unlock after completing certain worlds, providing some nice diversion. Each story level features a target time, which you’re challenged to beat in order to unlock harder variants of the levels you’ve already completed. While the story’s later levels are already quite challenging, these so-called B-side stages quickly become nail-bitingly hard and will certainly put friendships to the test in multiplayer mode. Beating regular or B-side level packs rewards you with one of 100 skins for your character, with additional ones being unlocked by earning achievements and through playing party mode. These skins not only feature rather varied and creative looks, but also come with different sound effects, which I very much enjoyed. You’ll also earn different colour themes to toggle between at any time, changing any level's colours as you desire. The aforementioned party mode tasks you with beating a number of levels back-to-back. While you still play together, your performance is compared against each other, giving incentive for more competitive behaviour. While there are a couple of levels unique to this mode, most of them are taken from the story mode, being unlocked once you’ve beaten them there. That said, things are kept fresh by a number of modifiers you can apply to change up the way your Spitlings move or interact with various objects, creating a lot of replay value. Graphically, Spitlings features a crisp, clean art style perfectly fit for the gameplay. Most everything is animated in some way, leading to levels, characters and even the UI feeling alive. Shaders are also used to great effect, with bouncing balls deforming based on their movement, level geometry bending a bit around your characters to create an ever-present outline and similar eye-candy focussed details. One such detail I very much enjoyed is that each death causes a coloured outline of your character along with a faint image of the remaining bouncing balls’ positions to be added to the levels background. Besides looking neat and showing off how often you’ve already failed this surprisingly also gives some neat insight into the ways you keep failing, giving pointers as to how to switch up your strategy. Similarly, the game’s soundtrack is honestly fantastic, with a great variety of catchy tracks that don’t become annoying even when you’ve been stuck in a level for half an hour. Sound design is equally well-done, with every action being accompanied by distinctive and often silly audio cues that very much fit the game. All of this creates a playful yet cohesive look and feel which I greatly enjoyed. [hr][/hr] I had a great time with Spitlings and can only recommend it, especially if you’ve got friends to play the game with. You get a great blend of fun and challenge presented in a superb way. Note: The game's menu also contains a greyed-out level editor button, which is marked as coming soon. Seeing as the game seemingly didn't do too well sales-wise, this feature seems to have been completely abandoned. While this doesn't impact my enjoyment of the game, I do consider the editor's absence a pity, given its potential for creating additional content.

[h2]《Spitlings》——一款到处吐口水的友尽合作类游戏[/h2] [b]前言[/b] 这个游戏我一打开看到主界面，我就瞬间明白了，它应该是一款和《Splasher》类似的游戏，但是可以本地多人一起游玩，我看了一眼介绍“多人游戏中，如果一个玩家失败，所有人会一起重启关卡。”，嗯，很好，的确是一款可以让友情破裂的好游戏。 我个人对这种游戏一般都会有着比较“害怕”的态度，因为这种街机风格的游戏就意味着越往后难度越大，容错率越低，到后期关卡那心态爆炸肯定是家常便饭。可是怎么办呢，我现在就是卡关了。 [b]个人评分（满分10分）[/b] 动作街机类游戏中（7/10分）[spoiler]（这个游戏后期的关卡成功打退了我要录视频的想法）[/spoiler]。 [b]背景[/b] 《Spitlings》是由Massive Miniteam开发，由HandyGames于2020年 8月4日发行的动作街机类游戏，游戏非常冷门，几乎在网络上都看不到宣发，在YTB上我甚至都没有找到通关视频。 游戏开始于4小只口水宝宝的幸福日常，风和日丽的一天像往常一样美好，突然天降红雨，染红了整个世界，淹没了4小只所待的大厦，大坨大坨的液体禁锢了4小只的好朋友们……幸存下来的4小只，为了朋友，为了世界开始了努力抗争……[spoiler]（当然，我的抗争失败了，我卡第2层了，丢脸）[/spoiler] [b]玩法[/b] 游戏操作简单，常规WASD控制方向，Q是更换关卡的背景风格，空格是通过吐口水跳起来，J是向上吐口水，K是哇哇叫，L是蓄力补充口水……整体操作不复杂，每只小怪物初始可以吐10口口水，吐完了就得赶紧补充。 游戏中的唯一敌人就是敌人的口水，只要碰到，小只就会被腐蚀，关卡就要重启；游戏是从顶层开始向下进展，从12层开始一直向下，直到1楼大厅，楼层越低，难度越大，容错率越低，各个关卡中添加的元素越多。 每一层有3个大关，每个大关又有3个小关，3个小关都通过才算是通过1个大关，同时还能救出一个伙伴；每一个大关能够救出的伙伴有2个，1个伙伴是正常过关即可救出，另1个伙伴需要完成每一个大关的挑战模式才能救出[spoiler]（一个挑战都没完成的我，躺平）[/spoiler]，挑战模式通常限定通关时间，难度特别大。 [b]剧情[/b] 简单来说，就是口水4小只拯救同伴，拯救世界的故事~ 每过3层就会有官方小漫画，其中小红是颜艺帝，就它的颜艺最出众；中间也会有比较重口的画风，比如拯救一只黄色伙伴的时候， 4小只一起冲它吐口水，黄色伙伴把它们的口水喝下去恢复了正常……哇，yue。 [b]配乐[/b] 配乐一直都是非常俏皮活泼的电子风音乐，很适合这种动作街机类游戏，充满动感。 PS：稍微有那么一点魔性，主题音乐到现在还回响在我脑子里。 [b]画面[/b] 2D矢量图画风，最有看点的是各式各样的口水宝宝，每一个口水宝宝都有属于自己的独特音效，多人玩肯定会很有意思，只可惜对我来说，我找不到那个属于我的“多人”。 [b]体验[/b] 这个小游戏对于我个人来说，时不时来上一局还是挺有意思的，但是如果要一直玩，那么耐心值就会疯狂下降，玩到最后就会想扔鼠标砸键盘…… 游戏中每救出一个小伙伴，就会解锁一个背景风格，按Q键就可以切换不同的背景风格，所以千万不要在黑暗的地方玩游戏，不然可能会切换到一个非常亮的背景。 游戏中还有很多可爱的小细节，比如游戏刚开始的时候，开始界面只有4小只在蹦跶，随着游戏进展，救出来的小伙伴越来越多，每一只获救的小伙伴都会出现在主界面，和4小只一起蹦跶……现在我的主界面已经能看到一堆口水宝宝在原地起跳了；除此以外，玩家每一次失误都会化成类似案发现场的描线印记，留在背景墙上，让玩家能直观地看到自己在哪里反复去世，这样可以帮助玩家分析失误的原因。 这些小细节真的很有趣，游戏也在尝试帮助玩家过关，但是后期的难度实在是有点高，我在YTB上都没找到通关视频。 优点： 1.独立关卡，实在玩不下去了不会从很早的存档点开始，而是从一个大关的开头开始，还能接受； 2.矢量图设计真的很适合当头像，有些设计得很可爱； 3.细节相对到位，尤其是留在墙上的印记； 4.手感尚可，不论是摩擦力减弱的地形还是全部都是弹簧的地形，手感都意外得还可以，没有很飘的感觉。 缺点： 1.画风，漫画的画风和游戏内的矢量图风格完全不一样，漫画的画风有美漫那种超级肌肉男的感觉，第一次体验到了什么叫“脸上长满肌肉”； 2.难度，越往后难度越大，需要合理分配口水的用法，时间玩久了，难免会开始怀疑人生； 3.分类，无伤大雅的缺点，游戏中部分关卡适合单人过关，部分关卡适合多人过关，可以稍微分一下。 [b]总结[/b] 游戏可以玩一玩，如果有好伙伴可以拉过来一起坑，检查一下友谊是小船还是巨轮，多人游玩可以加速通关的同时，也会降低容错率，对关卡的挑战模式有帮助；对于单人来说，累了来一局还是可以的，但如果想一口气通关，那恐怕到后面会抓耳挠腮，而且单人状态下部分关卡的挑战模式我个人感觉太难通过了，难度直接MAX。 真的很喜欢里面各种口水宝宝的设计，如果有谁全收集了，记得来捅我。 [quote] 妙笔提手点墨花，妙语成章满纸纱。 欢迎关注[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44852326/]猪式会社[/url]，用心绘测游戏。[/quote]

It's fun for a while, then I need a break. Nice game to have in your library.

good game but my achivments for this game are locked for some reason!

This game isn't bad, but it feels like the planets to align in order for me to say "You'll enjoy this I recommend it". The quick and dirty requirements for me to recommend thumbs up: - Have at least 1-2 coop friends either online or local. - Buy on a deep discount - Plan for a relatively short playtime (We beat the based game in just over 2 hours) or play occasionally - Be ready for both painfully easy and genuinely difficult stages For a more detailed explanation... think of the games like Rainbow Islands or Bubble Bobble. Each map has the players spawn it and you need to defeat all the enemies. This is accomplished by spitting upwards or spitting downwards (Which doubles as a jump). You have a limited supply of spit that can be recovered by catching it, slurping it off the ground, or a highly delayed reload function. It starts off simple but new maps add gimmicks such as switches, spikes, ice blocks, etc. They're fine, they change things up, but never really evolve the game outside what you see early on. The balance ends up feeling a bit off as some levels feel super easy and some extremely challenging... and it almost feels arbitrary. It all makes its way to a out of left field finale that was quite difficult because it doesn't quite work like the rest of the game. There's plenty of skins to unlock and bonus versions of stages, but this relies heavily on you wanted to play the game more... and I can't say it seems likely for our group. It's probably worth mentioning two high points: The music is pretty good and the online functionality was solid. It didn't always match up 1 to 1 on screens, but it was close enough that we could play accurately. While it's a fine game, it just never hits the highs of it's inspirations. I don't regret my purchase, but I suspect it's because I happened to play during the blue moon where every advantage was in place. I had a coop partner, I paid next little, we both enjoy challenging games, and we intended a single session.

Still too many bugs, especially when playing with friends

Кто шагает дружно в ряд? (Уже опплеванный) пионерский наш отряд, Плевали мы долго и без разбору Но так и не доплевали врагов... Хочу сказать разрабу За потерянные нервы За оплеванные стены За разбитую клаву И разбитую мышь Когда мне сказали: "Кышь!" Спасибо, за шедевр! И за сломанную клаву!

Overall this is not a good game to play with mates... atleast not with mine as we got agitated real quick. It was decent enough as a single player game IF bought cheaply. See my review here https://youtu.be/6CAj-JkSJlc

Игра сложна Игра хардкорна Но вместе с другом ты своим Ты заплюёшь врагов любых, И новых плевунов беря, Любая сила их тогда Уж явно пропадет Бывает тильт Бывает боль Но ты,иди к своей мечте И может быть тогда твой друг,не будет говорить: -ТЫ ДАЛБАЕБ,КУДА ПОШЕЛ -ТЫ ♥♥♥♥ НЕ СТРЕЛЯЛ А вместо этого всего -GG,отличная игра... By-Piscyn

Extremely fun and frustrating local multiplayer party game with some innovative ideas like growing back teeth and shooting into the air. Can be confusing at first but it is hilarious laugh once you get the hang of it.