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 these kind of video games will cringe on the sluggishness and recreation physics. It’s simply not a great search for a console recreation popping out in 2024.
Enemies, for instance, will comply with 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 would soar on one another and fall off traps and crevices simply to get to her. When the enemies do assault Martha, it would push her off generally yards away that’s so in contrast to 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 along 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 presupposed to be. For instance, in one of many chase ranges, falling down the spiky abyss ought to mechanically ship Martha over to the good past, however it doesn’t. In actual fact, she simply bounces off the spiky hill and will get broken for every bounce as an alternative. Simply little issues like that makes it seem to be this recreation is unpolished.
Fortunately, JustAxe is a really brief, three-hour slog that may be executed in a day. The story is barebones, however that’s anticipated for this sort of recreation. It truly is a recreation for these looking for to waste time throughout a protracted prepare or bus journey or a begrudging household dinner. It’s going to at the very least take the main focus off the actual world to finish these semi-frustrating ranges and enemies.
This evaluate is predicated on a retail copy of the sport supplied by the writer.
