Garlic

Good decently hard platformer with charming main protagonist, tons of references and minigames to break the main gameplay. The story is generic but thats not the main point of the game. Controls feel mostly responsive but I have encountered cases where the game just seemingly ate my input or (the main issue I had with controls) when dashing it seems like the game doesnt take the current button pressed but the one pressed like 0.5s before so that was not ideal. I have seen some people complain abobut achievements not working and I will be one of them since none of the achievement unlocked for me which is a bummer. Also the final boss fight was eh in terms of design ... do something 3 times and youre done. Overall it is a decent platformer with both challenging parts and chill parts with good design and that "old school" feel. I would recommend it.

This is my favourite platformer, hands down. It can be brutal, certain sections just feel mean, but the satisfaction of getting through a tough section is liberating. The movement feels great it's just hard to learn. You are given a lot of options and mechanics for a platformer: Air dashes, wall jumps, and the difficult to use but powerful super jump. Expect to die a lot figuring stuff out but once you do it will feel really good. I've played this several times over and if anything it's more fun and satisfying the second time around, once you have a good handle on the controls. The graphics are fun, the game is silly, and whilst I think the humour may be weird to some people it gives the game a unique personality and identity. Overall a fantastic game but definitely aimed at those who are willing to challenge themselves for it.

Garlic, the vegetable that enhances all vegetables, has virtualized to now enhance all of gaming. Just like it's edible counterpart, it does most things that you would want something that enters your bloodstream to do; dazzle you with spectacle, tempt you with romance, and infuse you with the power to summit a tower of insane killer contraptions and devilish demons. After ONE THOUSAND AND EIGHTY-EIGHT DEATHS, I can say I've reached heaven and crashed back down to Earth in the blink of an eye, able to say that I can speeder ride (you'll see), garbage toss (you'll see), and pogo stick (...) my way through life as not just a man, but a garlic.... Man P.S. Play this game, it's amazing.

garlic is the best, hardest, level-based style runner since super meat boy.

indispensable para los fanáticos de los plataformas en 2D

incredible. deserves much more praise

tudo pela 10/10

I wish I was able to enjoy this more. For part of the game I kept going despite many deaths, as I hoped to find the same "magic" that kept me going with [b]Mute Crimson Plus[/b] and [b]DX[/b] (my model of hard games that still find the right balance), but at some point frustration simply overtook fun. The game always opens by showing off the ability to bounce on walls, floors and ceilings multiple times but there is rarely ever room to really make good use of that and it is, in fact, one of the "best" ways to just die; what can be seen in the trailers is hardly achievable. Even the mechanic of sliding off walls or slowly climbing them becomes an enemy sometimes, because the character may end up sticking to a wall by a few pixels rather than squeezing into a passage, leading to undeserved deaths. The use of colors is the first thing that gets noticed about the game, as any given screen has got only a few and it uses them greatly, even if, ultimately, many of those limited palettes are the "usual" Game Boy and Super Game Boy ones. The variety of enemies is quite nice and they are all greatly designed and animated, including the consistently ridiculous bosses, and several obstacles are drawn with care. The overall look is stark and distinctive. There is a definite homage to Akira Toriyama (a recurring minor character is very similar to his self-caricature) but also to memetic anime faces, with some offbeat humor that also gets a bit raunchy at times - I could have lived without the minigame where Garlic teleports between lockers to avoid being busted perving on the Goddess. Like it or not, however, the game definitely doesn't lack character. Checking playthroughs, I can see that [b]Garlic[/b] is really long for the genre, although the latter levels definitely recycle a lot from previous ones, making for a case of "overstaying its welcome". Still, I don't feel like condemning it, it's just made for a rather specific audience that will appreciate it more than I did.