By John Walker on July 11th, 2011 at 12:11 pm.
Your Monday lunchtime entertainment comes in the form of Slime Laboratory by Neutronized. It’s a web game in which you play a blob of slime. Wot jumps. It’s a very decent platform game, which awakens parts of my brain asleep since 1989. Lots of fun ideas, demands for careful jumping, and importantly, reversed gravity. The only issue I’ve been having is the frustration of the slime refusing to jump upward when near a vertical surface. That is eight rubbishes. But beyond that, this is an excellent time killer. Start killing your time.
11/07/2011 at 12:15 RiptoR says:
Reminds me of the fabulous Gish…
11/07/2011 at 12:29 DiamondDog says:
Very much reminds me of Tales from Space: About a Blob.
11/07/2011 at 12:42 Kaira- says:
Am I the only one who didn’t like Gish? It played quite horribly in my opinion.
11/07/2011 at 12:56 Kdansky says:
Nope. I thought Gish was utter rubbish.
11/07/2011 at 13:09 faelnor says:
And this is worse than Gish so…
11/07/2011 at 14:41 Prince says:
A nice little combination of Gish and Silly Putty.
Would have been perfectly fine as a full-price Amiga title, were it not for the rage-inducing music!
11/07/2011 at 16:13 RiptoR says:
Once I switched over to a gamepad, Gish became much more enjoyable. Also, the little coop games provided tons of fun imho.
11/07/2011 at 18:13 sabrage says:
Gish would be fun if I could fucking jump.
So it’s not fun, at all.
11/07/2011 at 18:45 Balm says:
Gish was a great game (though bosses could’v been harder).
And, after single player was beaten, several different versus modes provided tonn of fun to me and my brother.
(To jump a propper height one have to not just press jump button but do “SoftenUp”>”HardenUp” to provide aditional push)
11/07/2011 at 12:26 Magnetude says:
That headline had me seeing red.
11/07/2011 at 12:31 JB says:
Yeah, I found it distasteful, period.
11/07/2011 at 12:57 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Let’s keep it sanitary, folks.
11/07/2011 at 13:23 godgoo says:
what a douche
11/07/2011 at 13:30 Eddy9000 says:
I think this fantastic headline should get a standing ovulation.
11/07/2011 at 14:59 godgoo says:
bloody puns!
11/07/2011 at 13:46 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
This is completely unremarkable. An interesting game would’ve exploited the fluid dynamics of the slime interacting with other fluids of varying viscosity, this is just a competent platformer with slightly altered protagonist physics. N is still the undisputed master of flash-based platform mayhem.
11/07/2011 at 14:23 Squeeby says:
Well don’t you just sound like a giant douche.
11/07/2011 at 14:38 John Walker says:
How dare this game be only good!
11/07/2011 at 16:13 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
@John Walker.
Being milquetoast can be a greater flaw than being memorably or entertainingly horrible.
11/07/2011 at 18:49 LionsPhil says:
I wouldn’t even say “good”. It’s cripplingly mediocre, if that—the platforming is not improved by goo-ness, just made fiddlier and less responsive.
And, dear god, are there a lot of ads on that site.
11/07/2011 at 16:55 Sepulchrave76 says:
All you do is shoot grime from a casserole dish. 7/10
13/07/2011 at 05:24 Phasma Felis says:
Wow. It’s like the littlest angel said “I wonder what would happen if Nitrome had made Gish?” and God said: “BEHOLD!”
It’s…it’s every bit as crappy as I imagined.