Pressing jump boosts him in the air, causing his legs give out immediately until he splats on the ground. Amazing Frog easily cripples when he comes in to contact with walls, and since you don’t actually land your jumps, platforming feels more like kicking a dead frog from dumpster to dumpster–not that I actually know what that’s like, I promise. The gameplay is accessible, but may take you a few minutes to get used to. “The game is as brilliant as you make it…” While I’d like to have some sort of subtle background song, the slapping of Frog’s feet had us cracking up to the point of being in tears. There also isn’t much of a soundtrack, as the only sounds you’ll hear are the wet slaps of your webbed feet, or the catchy theme song that blasts from nearby boomboxes.
If anything, the comical presentation of the amazing frog made it more memorable and iconic, and the fact that FAYJU isn’t gunning for a serious approach helps sell the game as just a fun, crazy experience. Graphics never make a game, and I never found its dated visuals to be a setback while playing.
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Graphically, Amazing Frog? exists somewhere between a PSone and PS2 game, but that’s all part of its charm.
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There’s even a dedicated 2-4 player Versus mode where frogs can fight for control of a crown, or shoot each other with laser guns in a Last Man Standing deathmatch, but it didn’t keep our attention very long. After an hour or so it was back to the open-world model of real-life Swindon to dress like a Thundercat and figure out how to get my RC car off the roof. Rather than going from point A to B, I was left to my own devices or sometimes our own devices, thanks to local split-screen co-op. Having Swindon all to myself was awesome, but adding in another player to chase down with a crossbrow, or shove in to exploding barrels, cranked up the replay value tremendously. I had to hunt down a crowbar at night to access the sewers, stumbled upon an OUYA game station, and discovered a giant snowman head to wear around Swindon for what appeared to be no reason at all. I had absolutely no idea what my objective was, but that was the point.
In my opening moments I managed to shoot myself out of a cannon on to a parked car, failed to slam dunk a basketball, and discovered a time-traveling port-o-john that resembled a Tardis from Dr. “I had absolutely no idea what my objective was, but that was the point.”Īmazing Frog? is an open-world sandbox game that allows players to set their own challenges. This journey also consists of bizarre cosplay, throwing yourself down flights of stairs, launching out of cannons, racing RC cars, bouncing on to floating pink castles, and exploring all that Swindon has to offer. Welcome to the town of Swindon, where you control one amazing frog on his journey to the moon. Then again, there are games out there that embrace absurd glitches and questionable gameplay, like Goat Simulator, Octodad, or Sportsfriends. In 2014 we had AAA titles release with no faces, unreliable always-on servers, and were forced to put faith in the dreaded words “day one patch”. As consumers, we prefer our video games to work.