By John Walker on August 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm.
Skull Daddy takes a familiar theme – getting object A to door B using items C, D and Z – and makes it morbidly interesting. With a limited selection of tools you need to aid the rolling skill to reach a glowing door, without falling into the abyss below. What makes Christopher Mathes’ take on it distinct is the splendid use of 2D papercraft-style graphics and pleasing physics. And there’s a demo. Good.
The demo is little more than the tutorial, and it seems a sort of betary test for Mathes to ensure it’s all working, but it gives you a good taste for the nature and tone of the thing. And it’s nothing stunningly original – certainly not in the small selection of challenges on offer here. You certainly won’t be getting stumped at any point. But hopefully Mathes has much planned, with some original puzzles in the full version. If not – well, it will be another construct-your-route puzzler with a macabre setting, and upset no one.
To give Mathes his credit, here are his credits:
2 words: Too easy
2 other words: not original
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It’s quite pretty though.
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Not everything has to be original and stunning. This was quite fun, looks good, seemed well put together.
It’s the sort of thing which if polished a bit more and with some good puzzles would be worth a fiver. And I’d probably buy it. Here’s hoping that’s what it goes for. I’m getting a bit tired of nice-but-not-excellent, simple pick up and play ‘casual’ games going for upwards of £15-£20.
It’s an easy equation. If the game lasts longer than it would take me to drink the amount of beer I could get for the price it’s going at, it’s a good deal. Otherwise I wont look twice.
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A pretty fun little game, could go places. The only thing that really bothered me was that the skull slid for the first few seconds after starting it, nitpicker that I am.
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Best Boy is something and so is Grip, but there is no such thing as a “best grip boy.” How disappointing.
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@Alex: You’ll find they only work in the porn industry.
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There is such a thing as a [b]best boy grip[/b] though.
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