Slip 'n Slime

Pretty good! I liked it a lot. The first thing that comes to mind is the music. The soundtrack is mostly good, with one GREAT track, and it changes up often enough to stay fresh. The levels have a lot going on, with all sorts of little areas off to the side that really show off the aesthetic they're going for, rather than big, boring blank spaces (and maybe they could fool some players into trying to follow paths that can't be followed?). They also have these nice transitions that tend to give you reminders of mechanics you might be about to see in the next area, or just give you a fun area to traverse at high speeds with no real obstacles, and cleverly-placed checkpoints you can't possibly miss. Mechanics include: spikes that can hurt you, holes you can fall into, blocks you can push around to give yourself something solid to hit so you can reach things you wouldn't ordinarily be able to, the ability to push blocks into holes so you don't fall in, grates that cut you up and shrink you (or that you fall into like a hole if you're already shrunk), paths that you can't enter if you're already shrunk, bits of slime you can use to regrow yourself to full size, keys you can only carry when you're full size, cracks in the floor that become holes when something big enough slides over them, and walls that lower when you hit them in the right spot with a key. The levels hit every possible note with these and combine them in every possible way. I can really only think of a few things I can ding Slip 'n Slide for: it's too easy. There are some tricky ones, but Slip 'n Slime spends way too long before getting to them. I think I was 60 or 70 levels in before I hit anything that really felt like a challenge. Also, while the art is cute, it could use improvement. The character portraits you get as rewards for completing certain paths entirely are especially amateurish. Last, there are no achievements, and no special reward for getting every single puzzle. I was thinking it would send me to a special screen or something, but nothing like that happened. A little disappointing. There are some other, minor issues, too. For one, it shows lines between tiles sometimes in windowed mode. This doesn't happen in fullscreen, though. For another, the main character is clearly a different resolution than everything else in the world, with most things having huge pixels in comparison. This was pretty jarring once I noticed it. Also, the last level kept crashing for me when I would hit the Restart key, and it had a graphical issue where any holes I filled with stone blocks would look like they were still full when I hit Undo. I didn't notice this happening on any other level, though, and it seems like the dev team keeps up on bug fixes, so I'm sure this will be handled. These are just nitpicks when you consider how much fun I had with this, but it does contribute to the amateurish feel that I get from some of the art. It's a great game if you don't mind slogging through a lot of easy stuff to get to the good stuff, and some of the other rough edges that can come from a small team of indie devs. And if you do mind? It's still pretty good.