#digerati
#digerati
by Amr (@siegarettes)
After ten minutes driving around the suburbs my bus had grown several times in size, stretching through a residential street down to the soccer field and arcing into the air and crossing over itself several times. At this point the Switch’s framerate began to dip and I promptly crashed my bus into itself setting it ablaze and ejecting passengers everywhere. Snakeybus is at its best here, where your inevitable failure is met with absurd humor and the ability to survey the wreckage you leave behind.
Snakeybus falls apart right as you unlock its time trial mode. What feels like it should be the main attraction of the game ends up revealing the game’s weaknesses. The more seriously you take it the less enjoyable it becomes. The chaotic physics and ever expanding bus line that makes the game entertaining in a more casual setting becomes frustrating the instant you try to play it skillfully.
by Amr (@siegarettes)
Velvet Swing makes a great first impression. The art style and moody soundtrack set up a trip into a surreal, vaporwave inspired landscape. It’s swinging manages to convey a sense of momentum while giving me enough control to keep it from feeling like I could be carried into an inescapable situation by mistakes I made three moves back. So already it manages to swing right past so the traps so many other momentum platformers fall into. Then it drops into the rest of them.