OverPowered

It’s a welcomed tradition to make platformers difficult and if they’re also fun to play, then you’ve stumbled onto quite the good piece of gaming candy. With OverPowered, it’s like Halloween when you get home with a bag full of treats.

OverPowered is a very appropriate name for what awaits you. The game is solely focused on delivering a great platformer experience and in this regard, graphics might not seem all that fantastic but mechanics and gameplay are solid.

In all honesty, the visuals don’t really impress but the game is nowhere near to looking bad. Design for characters, minions, environment, traps and all the details is actually very nice and the color choices make it seem harmless. But that feeling dissipates very shortly because you will be dying a lot more than you would expect.

Despite its high level of difficulty, OverPowered is gifted with some great humor. It mainly comes from your NPC companion named Master Toh, the one who guides you on the right path of your adventure and quest to save the world from demon Lord Zenithius. The old sage has plenty of sarcastic remarks and jokes directed to the fact that for a hero, you’re really weak.

Until you find an artefact to enhance your powers, your only way of dealing with danger is to avoid it. You can punch but that’s completely useless at first because you can’t even hurt the bunnies that roam around the levels.

Speaking of, those cute long ear read shoe wearing minions are simply despicable. A lot of the dying in the game is because of them and what makes it fun and frustrating is that they themselves don’t really kill you. The rabbits just love to push you into traps and it’s really hard to avoid them.

On a closing note, play it. It’s a pixel art graphics platformer that delivers humor, simple and addictive gameplay and perfectly timing a jump has rarely been so crucial and rewarding.