In a world filled to the brim with excellent platformers, how do you create a new game in the genre that does something a little different? Well, how about stripping away all of the features that make it a platformer in the first place?
Missing Features: 2D does exactly that, tasking players with not only unlocking new stages and abilities, but also the game's fundamental mechanics and assets, too. You see, when the game boots up for the first time it fails to load everything correctly (on purpose), leaving it up to you to unlock your player character model, their running animations, and a variety of gameplay mechanics to essentially 'create' the platformer game you're playing as you go.
Confused? Make sure to watch the trailer up above!
The great news is that the game's available to play on Switch as we speak and is currently enjoying a 50% launch discount – yes, even some of the asking price is missing. At the time of writing, you can buy this one for just £1.79 / $1.99, so feel free to go ahead and download it if you're intrigued.
Will you be giving this one a go? Don't leave anything out in the comments.
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Definitely worth looking into for the price! May have to take the plunge!
And this is why I don't have "shovelware" in my vocabulary. QUbyte is one of the publishers who frequent offer tabs most, but they boast stuff from classics like Vasara Collection and 99vidas to peculiar small projects like Dungeon Solver, Dogurai and Spooky Chase. And then this one which immediately seems like the potential Evoland of platformers? Count me in... if/when the game actually shows up in my region, at least. Hopefully it's just a release timezone discrepancy.
Another '2d platformer'. Thanks, we have plenty of those
@nhSnork Even the titles and games are generic.
Surely the soundbyte of his jump is directly from Sonic? I get that they clearly drew inspiration from the old 16bit sonic games but that jump is plagiarized isn't it?
With my gold coins this was just over £1, may as well give it a go
@elias84631 while originality is always welcome, being "generic" is never a sin for a fiction work. If it causes any discomfort, we're dealing with a case of personal experience saturation at the end of the day, and little else.
Will definitely give it a go at that price. Kudos to them for doing something a little different.
I've played a couple of excellent budget platformers recently: Toree 3D and Miles and Kilo. Highly recommend them both for any fans of old school platform games.
@Clyde_Radcliffe Really!? Miles and Kilo was on my wish list for a long time, but other games looked more interesting. If you say it is worth a look, I will give it another look. Thanks!
I hope there's an eventual twist on the idea. :3
Otherwise, a cute deconstruction of the basic 2D platformer can probably be good fun too. ^^
this is just DLC Quest?
@theshillito That's exactly what I thought when I saw this. I'd love to play that on Switch some day.
I look forward to the eventual sequel "Missing Features: 4D", as you wrap your head around the conundrum of the absence of the flow of space-time.
@dugan Yeah, it's really fun and addictive, particularly trying to beat the different speed ranks on the levels after completing the main story. Nintendo Life gave it an 8 too.
At least 66 percent of the eshop could be called that!
I guess everyone is trying to find that next new gimmick to sell their game. Don't think that kind of design philosophy automatially equals a good game, and it really doesn't in most cases I've seen, but this one is kinda quirky and interesting at the very least.
Kinda reminds me of the old flash game on Kongregate called Upgrade Complete
I never trust games with such a large launch discount.
It sounded like a somewhat interesting concept, until I learned that the features actually get found one by one. It would be interesting to see whether they can build something around, well, most features really not being there.
Or there could have been an unstable game world, where features randomly get lost, and mostly nothing is really working. The way it is, it is not that different from other games that drip-feed features to you as you progress. They just made that pretty regular idea more in-your-face here.
I’m not gonna fall for this!
Hey I recognize those art assets. Switch should really ban art asset games. If you can't be bothered with original assets or fund them, how can we trust the quality?
@nhSnork I agree with you. For a cheap game is fine.
Sounds interesting. Could be fun.
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