Tiny and Big - Up The Mountain Demo

Interesting ideas are not rare at all, but it is pretty uncommon to see them put into practice, especially when it comes to video games. However, thanks to the technological advancements of the past few years, putting one's ideas into action is much simpler nowadays, given the fact that there are countless simple tools that do most of the work for you and are quite capable to produce state-of-the-art renditions of your imagination.

Tiny and Big – Up The Mountain is a clever little adventure game that uses an ingenious physics engine to provide you with a unique gameplay experience, as well as plenty of humor to keep you in a good mood throughout the story. The replayability is through the roof, thanks to the fact that you can never go through the levels in quite the same way twice in a row.

As far as the story is concerned, it all starts when Tiny – the main character and your alter-ego inside the game – finds out that Big, his nemesis, has stolen his grandfather's inheritance for him: a pair of pearly-white underpants. In order to recover your most prized possession and teach Big a lesson once and for all, you have to go after him and try to settle the dispute, preferably by force.

The ingenious part lies in the gameplay mechanics themselves, since as you probably deduced, the story is not the strong point, regardless of how witty and humorous it might be. Hence, Tiny can use his laser gun to cut stones, towers and various other solid objects in as many pieces as he wants. He can also use a grappling hook to pull the said pieces, in order to form pathways and navigate tricky levels. Naturally, the physics engine is quite capable of simulating realistic conditions, which is a real delight to watch in action.

On the other hand, it can sometimes be rather frustrating to pull the said pieces and help them crash in the desired position, regardless of how fun it is to cut them. The level design is also very tricky to navigate and there are plenty of ledges you can fall off if you are not careful. Thankfully, the autosave function is there to protect you and it does come in handy on multiple occasions.

Tiny and Big – Up the Mountain's biggest asset is the fact that you can always just toy around with the laser and the grappling hook, which never ceases to be fun. The beautiful graphics blend perfectly with the soundtrack and the unusual visual design.