Shuffle World Reviews

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It seems like a neat idea, but there's a bug that makes the game unplayable. The selection boxes are glitched out. I think it's cycling through the selection boxes on each frame.

Great game.. finished in about an hour. Wait for that last grape to move down slightly so you can jump and catch it ;)

This is a really cool puzzle game in which you... shuffle... a world. You have to do so in order to collect all the fruit in each level to be able to progress to the next level. Its a short game, but a lot of fun. Took me just over an hour to beat, and I'm a slow gamer.

TL;DR - the game doesn't develop the core mechanic much at all. You will be doing the same few things in level 42 that you were doing in the first, but now with tighter timing. It's kind of hard to justify buying this game for that reason. The goal of the game is to collect all of the fruit in a level, at which point you'll move on to the next. This forces you to use the swap mechanic to reach every otherwise inaccessible area with fruit in it, but the game's level design never requires any amount of deep thought, and difficulty only really ever comes about from being required to manage swapping landmasses and platforming over enemies at the same time. There's little exploration of the mechanics, since the deepest it gets is toggle blocks, moving platforms and moving threats. Your character's abilities are just as simple - jump, or swap landmasses. The controls feel just slightly too slippery for the precision control that is required. You will frequently overshoot or undershoot a platform, or you will land on it and slide off, particularly if you had fallen far. The gameplay becomes annoying when in addition to sloppy controls, you also have to deal with enemies' large hitboxes and dying in one hit. Also, the game doesn't seem to work with controllers, since it was continually cycling through landmasses to swap. It's probably impossible outside of this controller bug, but swapping landmasses that already are being swapped causes them to get stuck in the middle. This, the physics, and other small things like beating a level and seeing "COMPLET" and then "E" on a new line makes me think this game didn't get tested enough. Whatever potential there was got wasted. You can skip this one.

I believe that this little puzzle-platformer is well worth your attention, especially at the low price of $1. You might consider giving it a try if you: [list] [*] like [b]short games[/b]: with its 42 levels, [i]Shuffle World[/i] will take around one hour of your time to be fully completed. [*] enjoy [b]easy platformers[/b]: this is not a game meant for people who strive doing hardcore challenges; as a person with low to average platforming skill, [i]Shuffle World[/i] proved to be a very enjoyable experience for me, the only level that I struggled with being the last one (ok, maybe the last 3-4) which requires a more finicky control over the character's movement. [*] are amused by [b]puzzles[/b]: the objective in each level is to collect all the fruits; however not all of them are accessible from the beginning. In order to reach them, you'll need to constantly rearrange the level by swapping different sections of it and unlock new paths to the fruits. [*] [b]hate dying over and over again[/b]: the game is designed in a way that allows you to stop and think about your next moves and even if it does contain the mandatory spikes, rotating blades, moving platforms and enemies, they are all arranged in a pretty friendly way, so that you won't get frustrated about repeatedly dying over a segment. [*] hunt for some [b]easy achievements[/b]: you don't need to do anything other than complete all the levels. [/list] [quote]More reviews on the [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11354094]Lilly's Corner Curator page[/url][/quote]