Sideway™ New York

"How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?" The Game

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A brilliant and creative game that did the whole 2D action on 3D surfaces gameplay mechanic before The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds or Super Mario Odyssey ever did. The levels are diverse and well designed, enemy variety is interesting, the attacks and move sets you unlock and can combine together are compelling and feel fluid, and the boss fights are creative and make good use of the game's various mechanics. The Rap and Hip Hop music is not really my cup of tea but it seems good for what it is, though fairly repetitive as it cycles two of the tracks per level but probably should have done more than that. The only really glaring issue is some random crashing on one particular level (Times Square) late in the game but other than that it was smooth sailing for me. Obviously something that slipped through the cracks in playtesting and QA. It may take a few re-tries but I was able to complete that level in its entirety multiple times. As far as the framerate being capped at 30fps goes, I think that was blown way out of proportion and people sometimes tend to focus to a draconian degree on technical details that are negligible in the end. This isn't like a multiplayer first-person shooter where tens of milliseconds could potentially matter. As such it did not affect my enjoyment of the game whatsoever and frankly I find it to be a non-issue (just as it was for me with Teleglitch for example). I had a great time with this game and trying to get all the secret tags and 100% each level and the actual gameplay is definitely deserving of a higher rating on here than it ultimately got. It been a long time since its release and it looks like it will never get a sequel, which is unfortunate.

Un jeu action-plateformer qui vaut clairement le coup. Une réalisation sans faille, une bonne bande son, un gameplay au poil. Pour 10€ vous ne prenez aucun risque.

Um dos jogos de plataforma mais interessantes e divertidos que já joguei. Mais de uma década depois, vim revisitá-lo e ainda acho sensaciona!. Esta ideia de vc controlar uma pintura/sticker de street art ao longo das parede é muito criativa e foi muito bem aplicada. Atualmente apresenta problemas de framerate em alguns sistemas mais novos, mas, pra quem usa placa Nvidia, tem um passo a passo de como resolver aqui: https://steamcommunity.com/app/200190/discussions/0/4354495152409931089/

Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Very interesting at first glance. But mechanically flawed and frustrating. A poor platforming experience. Quickly becomes tedious, and when looked at face value, the whole concept makes no sense. Concept here is that you are a graffiti boy stuck on 2D plane of walls while 3D environments rotate as you go from wall to wall. Really cool. It gets worsened by a lot in that you do not look at all like a graffiti but rather like a flash-game 2D sprite. The platforming is very loose and floaty, the design of level is one where platforms go in opposite direction and rotate around the building's sides and ceilings making it not only very disorienting but also, in my case, left me trapped at the bottom of a building with no way to back to access the rest of the levels anymore. You would had thought that a game like this could had easily implemented a mehcanic where characters can walk on all four sides of a wall, it is not like graffitis are bound by gravity. Actually the longer you think about it the more stupid this game becomes. The music seemed to consist of two music tracks of about 3 minutes each alternating with each other. But each track was very repetitive in and of itself, including one where a guy just says Yo Yo Yo Yo, Yo Yo, Yo Yo Yo for 3 minutes solid. No sound effects to speak of. Xbox 360 pad was detected correctly