JustAxe jogs my memory of an Adobe Flash sport again within the Newgrounds/Kongregate days of yore. It’s a brief and easy platformer with the texture of that Flash fluidity and controls. Gamers who’ve by no means skilled a lot of these video games will cringe on the sluggishness and sport physics. It’s simply not a superb search for a console sport popping out in 2024.
Enemies, for instance, will observe little Martha (i.e., the participant one controls) to the ends of a degree with their aggressiveness. Martha has them so aggroed to the purpose the place it would bounce on one another and fall off traps and crevices simply to get to her. When the enemies do assault Martha, it would push her off generally yards away that’s so in contrast to real-world physics. That’s the Flash-game physics at work.
Navigating in JustAxe additionally falls into the Flash-game physics work. Martha runs, jumps, and assaults together with her trusty axe as anticipated, however there’s simply one thing concerning the controls that doesn’t really feel as fluid because it’s presupposed to be. For instance, in one of many chase ranges, falling down the spiky abyss ought to routinely ship Martha over to the nice past, but it surely doesn’t. In actual fact, she simply bounces off the spiky hill and will get broken for every bounce as a substitute. Simply little issues like that makes it appear to be this sport is unpolished.
Fortunately, JustAxe is a really brief, three-hour slog that may be carried out in a day. The story is barebones, however that’s anticipated for any such sport. It truly is a sport for these looking for to waste time throughout an extended prepare or bus experience or a begrudging household dinner. It can no less than take the main focus off the actual world to finish these semi-frustrating ranges and enemies.
This overview relies on a retail copy of the sport supplied by the writer.
JustAxe jogs my memory of an Adobe Flash sport again within the Newgrounds/Kongregate days of yore. It’s a brief and easy platformer with the texture of that Flash fluidity and controls. Gamers who’ve by no means skilled a lot of these video games will cringe on the sluggishness and sport physics. It’s simply not a superb search for a console sport popping out in 2024.
Enemies, for instance, will observe little Martha (i.e., the participant one controls) to the ends of a degree with their aggressiveness. Martha has them so aggroed to the purpose the place it would bounce on one another and fall off traps and crevices simply to get to her. When the enemies do assault Martha, it would push her off generally yards away that’s so in contrast to real-world physics. That’s the Flash-game physics at work.
Navigating in JustAxe additionally falls into the Flash-game physics work. Martha runs, jumps, and assaults together with her trusty axe as anticipated, however there’s simply one thing concerning the controls that doesn’t really feel as fluid because it’s presupposed to be. For instance, in one of many chase ranges, falling down the spiky abyss ought to routinely ship Martha over to the nice past, but it surely doesn’t. In actual fact, she simply bounces off the spiky hill and will get broken for every bounce as a substitute. Simply little issues like that makes it appear to be this sport is unpolished.
Fortunately, JustAxe is a really brief, three-hour slog that may be carried out in a day. The story is barebones, however that’s anticipated for any such sport. It truly is a sport for these looking for to waste time throughout an extended prepare or bus experience or a begrudging household dinner. It can no less than take the main focus off the actual world to finish these semi-frustrating ranges and enemies.
This overview relies on a retail copy of the sport supplied by the writer.