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JungleWookiee
95,882
TA Score for this game: 340
Posted on 10 May 11 at 17:44, Edited on 11 May 11 at 06:45 |
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The Maw. Puzzlish adventure platformer game of sort for the XBLA, short and really easy. I get it for free by subscribing to a Gold Membership for the first time and I guess I won't be alone so, let's review it : what is this game worth ?
Story :
You are Franck, a cute little alien with Puppy Dog Eyes and no ability beside walking and jumping. You have been captured by some kind of evil military aliens with space suits and guns (but fear not, the guns will not harm you in any way, more on that later) but the ship suddently and conveniently crash on a cute and colorfull planet. There, you meet Maw, a purple blob alien with a very large... Maw. And you also find a device that lets you keep him on a leash (and finally give your incompetent hero some abilities, like pulling blocks and pick off item from the ground). And here we go...
Gameplay :
The basic gameplay revolves around making Maw eat stuff. Some alien animals he'll eat will give him New Powers, letting you progress through the 6 stages in the game. Maw will also grow in size twice or more a stage, letting him eat bigger animals as the game progress. Also, you cannot possibly die in this game, so there is no real challenge beside keeping yourself interested enough to get to the end. Walk around, eat animals, destroy stuffs with new powers, don't miss hidden paths and that's it.
7/10
Audio & Graphics :
Nothing special here, some really short looping ambiant tracks and colorful but repetitve graphics as every regular stages looks like each others. All in all, not bad but nothing memorable.
5/10
Achievement :
Not really creative. Eating everything you encounter while completing the game will earn you most of them, even the "X uses of power Y" as you have to use them anyway. Same for the DLC. So classic it gets boring. There is also one really stupid achievement that asks you to mess around with your Xbox internal clock and load the game 6 times in a row because nobody will never ever get it in the intended way.
6.5/10
Not a really good game, but not a complete waste of time either. The game is fun and the concept is interesting. It is cute and really easy, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you happen to need a refreshing short and easy game, you lose nothing in trying it. An improved sequel would be much appreciated.
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