If you like your side-scrolling platformers on the brain-melting, psychedelic end of the scale, look no further than Spinch.
The game has players taking on platforming challenges inside all sorts of bright, colourful levels, making their way around complex obstacles and unique enemies along the way. According to the press release, the titular Spinch is a "hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue its litter of missing offspring from an endless invasion of misshapen and malformed offbeats and oddities". So now you know.
You'll be dashing, dodging, jumping, and launching your own children as projectiles to take down six bosses across the game's six vibrant worlds. It benefits from quick restarts with no lives or game over screens, so you'll be able to bounce straight back into the action to keep hammering away at each level.
Here's a feature list:
- Retro-styled visual wonderland with a dazzling colour explosion by award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs
- A fine-tuned platformer with tight controls to dash, dodge, and jump off surfaces to survive against neon spiders, massive rainbow worms, and bomb-dropping moondogs
- Plunge into the unique worlds ranging from neon plains, to experiment tanks, to frozen icelands, all the way to outer space!
- Face off against enigmatic bosses and shoot them down with your children as ammunition
- Inviting and replayable for everyone; a speedrunning challenge for the insane
- Soundtrack by famed Canadian artist, James Kirkpatrick, featuring compositions written on modified Game Boys and circuit-bent, hand-made instruments.
The game's set to launch on Switch on 3rd September, priced at $14.99.
If you've been looking for something a little bit different, we dare say this one will have you covered. Share your thoughts with us down below.
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The art style reminds me of Pool Panic. I like this psychedelic aesthetic, so hopefully the game play is good.
That looks absolutely mental 😄
I'm in 👍
this looks...REALLY FUN! 🌈🎶🥳
The fact that I’m already dreaming of a new game plus mode teaches me I must be hyped haha 😋.
Not interesting. Other than cool art, it doesn't look particularly good in the places where it looks like you're in control.
Protect your white babies from a rainbow coalition? Right.....
I doubt there’s any subtext though. This looks pretty good reminds me of Jeff minter a little.
I'm guessing Jesse Jacobs is affiliated with Adventure Time in some design capacity. Very pleasing to look at.
The art style reminds me of Adventure time.
If Cuphead was Max Fleischer, this is Yellow Submarine. Looks beautiful.
There’s a lot of intriguing stuff going in in terms of visual and sound design.
Mechanically it seems closer to Meat Boy than something like Celeste, which is personally a downside for me as I loved the latter but could never get into the former, despite both being critically acclaimed. It’s probably not particularly like either, but still...
I hope it turns out well though! There‘a clearly been a lot of... imagination put into the game.
That looks cool. Marking my calendar.
As long as the game isn't crazy difficult, I'm down. I am a little burnt out on crazy hard platformers. The art style and soundtrack really do peak my interest too. It kinda looks like an "experience" as well as possibly a good game. Only have to wait until September 3rd to find out!
Dig the style and love the tunes! I’m in
looks very good. looks a bit too dear i'd say 5 euro would be enough, i mean it is just a platformer.
Love the Yellow Submarine style, and it's a platformer, so yup I'm in!
Looks pretty cool. The artstyle reminds me a little bit of Pool panic.
So glad that games like this are coming to Switch... this looks perfect for playing handheld with headphones... will definitely pick it up at some point.
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