REVIEW / JustAxe (PC) – That VideoGame Weblog

JustAxe jogs my memory of an Adobe Flash recreation again within the Newgrounds/Kongregate days of yore. It’s a brief and easy platformer with the texture of that Flash fluidity and controls. Gamers who’ve by no means skilled all these video games will cringe on the sluggishness and recreation physics. It’s simply not search for a console recreation popping out in 2024.

Enemies, for instance, will observe little Martha (i.e., the participant one controls) to the ends of a stage with their aggressiveness. Martha has them so aggroed to the purpose the place it is going to soar on one another and fall off traps and crevices simply to get to her. When the enemies do assault Martha, it is going to push her off typically yards away that’s so not like real-world physics. That’s the Flash-game physics at work.

Navigating in JustAxe additionally falls into the Flash-game physics work. Martha runs, jumps, and assaults together with her trusty axe as anticipated, however there’s simply one thing in regards to the controls that doesn’t really feel as fluid because it’s speculated to be. For instance, in one of many chase ranges, falling down the spiky abyss ought to robotically ship Martha over to the good past, but it surely doesn’t. In truth, she simply bounces off the spiky hill and will get broken for every bounce as an alternative. Simply little issues like that makes it appear to be this recreation is unpolished.

Fortunately, JustAxe is a really brief, three-hour slog that may be performed in a day. The story is barebones, however that’s anticipated for this sort of recreation. It truly is a recreation for these searching for to waste time throughout an extended practice or bus journey or a begrudging household dinner. It can not less than take the main target off the actual world to finish these semi-frustrating ranges and enemies.

This overview relies on a retail copy of the sport supplied by the writer.