Gelly Break Deluxe Reviews

Me and my wife beat 100%. Me using UEVR and she looking at the TV. Really awesome small little gem. Highly recommended for a little coop session. Great Work Devs! :)

[i] My Experience [/i] My co-op partner and I just finished playing [b]Gelly Break Deluxe[/b] through Steam's Remote Play Together and we thought it was excellent. It would make sense to worry how such a twitchy platformer/top-down shooter would fare with streaming video, but outside of one instance when we perished after my partner lost the video stream, everything went smoothly. The mechanics of [b]Gelly Break Deluxe[/b] are simple. You'll both play as little "gellies," one orange and one green. Most of the time, you'll be stacked on top of one another. The player on the top will use their controller stick in twin-stick shooter fashion to shoot projectiles, while the player on the bottom will navigate and jump. At any time, both players can press a button on their controller to switch positions, meaning that the navigating/jumping player will now be in the turret position and vice versa. There are green platforms and bounce pads that can only be used when the green player is on the bottom (navigating), while there are orange platforms and bounce pads that can only be used when the orange player is on the bottom. The only other thing to note is that if your gellies switch positions near a pane of glass, you can crack it. Multiple cracks can shatter the glass completely. The game escalates in difficulty as it creates more challenging jumps from orange>green platforms or green>orange platforms that make you switch positions in mid-air. It will also introduce time pressure more often as you progress, demanding that you be more and more efficient with your jumps and switches. There are multiple fun boss fights that require you to weave all of your skills together: accurate shooting with your turret, and timely and targeted switches to platform and shatter important glass panes & panels. The most common mistake that you and your co-op partner will make will be falling into a pit or hole when you haven't coordinated a position switch correctly, and the game is not particularly punishing in these instances. You'll be teleported back onto the last platform you were on and you'll lose a little of your health. Luckily, health-recovering items are common - my partner called these "sandwiches" while I thought they looked like watermelons. Eventually, we landed on calling them "watermelon sandwiches" (you can see one on the store page in screenshot #5). The only things we didn't like in the game are the incessant comments from the gellies that you encounter all the time while exploring levels (look, we get it, the Evil Blob is a bad guy) and how depth can be difficult to gauge in some of the horizontal jumps you're asked to make. If you think you'd enjoy a colorful, cooperative platformer/top-down shooter, give [b]Gelly Break Deluxe[/b] a try. Although the mechanics are simple, my co-op partner often commented while we played that the game requires "a different way of thinking," which I can agree with. The game goes on sale often and you'll only need one copy, so what are you waiting for?