Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Apr 14, 2018

  Finical gameplay, challenging difficulty, lovely art design, reactive movement and with an incredible replayability, This cute little game has everything that you can hope for a 2D platformer. [b]If you like the genre, you can buy it without hesitation ! I loved it ![/b]
• gamedeal user

  Jul 28, 2018

  I’ve learned through playing Plug Me and some other games that are filled with rapid fire failure that I’m not a huge fan of the concept. I have to play it in short bursts because every death lights another burner in me and eventually I’m just boiling over. That being said, for all of the games that deliver that infuriating experience for me, this one is certainly on the more appealing end of the spectrum. Abbreviated Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSS7BCC_8Q [h1] Super Plug Boy [/h1] Pretty much immediately I got a sense that this game was crafted in a similar fashion to Super Meat Boy. Not just the rectangular protagonist or the fact that your character dies a lot, but because the game centers around high speed accurate jumping and platforming to get to a goal across a field of hazards. Even down to each level having a floating battery in a challenging area that you can grab which seems analogous to the bandages from Super Meat Boy. While games like Super Meat Boy aren't all that rare, the part that distingushes the two games is the fact that you have time limit to reach the goal that takes the form of a bar of electricity that moves across the screen. If it reaches the end before you do, you lose and start again. If you reach the end first, you hop in the outlet as an anthropomorphic electrical plug would and power it up, saving the day and beating the level. Beyond just simply being a timer, it functions as a part of the level in several ways. It’s physical ground that you can stand and jump on and you can’t move through it in any way. So it’s used as a temporary platform at times as well as a tool that can block off part of the level until enough time has passed and the bar moves by. It is also used to let blocks fall doing similar things in the process. The innovative ways that is presented in each level means that it’s often difficult to get a good idea of what you need to do until you see what unfolds as the electricity starts draining. As the levels get more complex (though rarely longer than a handful of seconds to complete start to finish) you may be required to speed as fast as you can through some sections while waiting at others for just long enough for the bar to pass to quickly move forward. [h1] Power Outage [/h1] While it’s cool to see such interesting designs come from the electricity bar as a mechanic, it can also serve to be a really frustrating design. I’ve never been a huge fan of puzzles requiring speed and precision at the same time and Plug Me basically thrives on it. It doesn’t really give you moments to think about what is going to happen, so for nearly every puzzle I had to die at least once or twice practically on purpose just to see how everything unfolded. Timing is so important that literal fractions of a seconds matter and being in the wrong place or jumping just slightly askew means you’re back to the start. This generally isn’t too bad though since, as I said, once you execute on a level properly it’s over in a matter of seconds. This really becomes an issue when the boss fights start. Boss fights work in a slightly different way. Rather than getting to the end of the level and jumping on the socket, you jump on the top of the boss hovering over the socket and they function as the plug. The problem is that you have to do this three times in a row. It doesn’t sound too bad until you realize that if you fail in any of the three runs, you start the entire run over. So remember when I mentioned how it’s almost required to that you fail a level at least a couple of times before you get the timing? Well each time you hit the boss, it adds another obstacle to the level potentially changing how you do the entire run. So needless so say the vast majority of my deaths were on boss levels. At these points, the fun was stripped from the game and the only thing that kept me going was determination. [h1] Closing the Circuit [/h1] Plug Me is a short and simple game that relies on difficulty to keep you playing for a respectable amount of time. That’s never been something that appealed to me personally, but I can’t fault a game for my personal grievances with certain broadly defined designs. The game itself is well crafted both visually and functionally and really seems almost too cheap for how polished it is. At a time when any indie game that doesn’t look like it was made in a dirty basement over a couple weeks is released at $20, this is more than a welcome experience. So there’s not really any reason to wait for a sale if you’re interested in a Super Meat Boy-styled puzzle platformer that has both a ‘memorable’ name and the quality to back it up. [quote] If you'd like to see more of my reviews, check out my curator page here: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28346672-Endyo-Gaming/ and https://www.thegamemessiah.com[/quote]