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Reviews for Jasper! (#2580)

Review by WhenIWasCruel on 07 Sep 2014 (Rating: 4)

This time you're an adventurous mouse strenuously making his way through hostile flora and dangerous fauna, turned evil because of the infamous Wangling of the Furt or at least that's the scientific explanation included in the instructions. Your Old Mother did tell you all about it, but you didn't believe her, didn't you. And now you see that she was right: THE FURT REALLY WANGLED this time. You try to go home with the idea of sleeping until all goes back to normal, but you don't find the key in your mousy pocket: just a hole. So, your task is to find the key and enter home, but it's not that simple: you'll have to search through several locations ridded with FURT-WANGLED creatures and vegetation. At first glance it seemed just a platform game stretching through various flip screens, but I discovered that there's an arcade/adventure aspect in the gameplay, that makes it a little bit more varied and interesting. To proceed in your rodent quest, in fact, you're going to need various objects, scattered around the playing area, in order to solve little problems or puzzles and - hoping they're not perforated as the one that hosted the above-mentioned key - you can carry these items around putting them in your five pockets, and pressing the numbers from 1 to 5 when you want to try to use them. The commanding keys are multi-function, and have different purposes in different situations. This contributes to make the game a bit hard, especially at the start, along with some devious movement patterns of the FURT-WANGLED animals, sometimes difficult to avoid. For example, it's fundamental, to master the game, to learn how to grab the ropes, cling onto them, make them swing, and jump from them to safe ground - which requires a bit of practice. That said, the graphics are cartoonish and colourful, well drawn and animated, the controls quite responsive and the game, once overcome the initial difficulties, should provide a nice entertainment, in spite of the gasping and wheezing tune.