Super Anjelo Land 2 Demo

Not all video games need a serious theme in order to be enjoyable and memorable. In fact, most of them barely feature anything real, yet millions of people from all over the world find them exciting and dedicate hours of their lives to playing them. Hence, even the most ludicrous of ideas can work wonders if you know how to present your product.

Super Anjelo Land 2 is a retro platformer in which your primary goal is to collect as many chicken nuggets as you possibly can, while avoiding death at all costs. Just like in every other platformer out there, death can result from touching the enemies, being hit by their projectiles, or simply falling into a pit. Various other powerups can be picked up along the way to help you deal with the obstacles.

The story is rather vague and almost non-existent most of the time, but it doesn’t really matter, because all you need to know is how to get more chicken nuggets. The main character’s name is Anjelo and he possesses the ability to jump reasonably high, as well as attack the enemies by throwing what appear to be newspapers. He can also go back in time, more or less, although the gimmick is not very well implemented.

Although this is an indie production, the game is quite refined and you can perform some neat tricks, as long as you have good reflexes and you can keep yourself from receiving too much damage at once. Hence, you can even run through the levels without touching anything, although that requires a bit more concentration and it certainly hurts your ability to collect nuggets.

As far as the graphics are concerned, the 2D environments and the sprite animations are quite nice, although you shouldn’t expect anything special either. The level design is not very inspired either, in the sense that it gets kind of repetitive after a while. The music doesn’t go very well with what you can see on the screen, which proves to be annoying after a while.

In the end, Super Anjelo Land 2 may not be the best platformer out there, but it can be quite fun for a short period of time. After that, the design flaws and the repetitive levels get in the way and you are not able to enjoy it for much longer.