Status: Game completed; some extra levels still locked
Put this on your box: The hardest easiest platformer ever made!
Most intriguing idea: That a platformer can be challenging without forcing you to restart a level every time you fail.
Best design decision: Getting rid of "death".
Worst design decision: The method for getting the extra levels in Grass Land.
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February 8, 2011
Capsule: Kirby's Epic Yarn
February 2, 2011
The Text Blues: But I Digress...
It seems like most of the people who wrote reviews of 999 thought very highly of it. I'm not sure why that was; I found the game to be a fairly tedious exercise in the repetition of insufficiently interesting puzzles. 999 creates this problem for itself because of its structure. The enforced replays that are central to 999's design and fiction ask for more from the puzzles and dialogue than they are able to contribute as art or entertainment. In addition to that, I felt that 999 had a tendency to undermine its plot and atmosphere during its moments of exposition, because it did not make proper use of the communicative elements on hand.
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