Electronic Super Joy Reviews

While even the description for this game admits that it is "brutally hard", I cannot claim that has a hard difficulty that feels satisfying in any way. The positives I can say are that the control is actually overall pretty good, the art style is neat, and I generally like the music. But what absolutely kills this game is the level design. World 1 is at least tolerable, but by the time I got to the end of World 2, any enjoyment I was getting out of this game was gone. It came to the point where I feel like this was designed specifically with being a rage game in mind. If you're someone who likes rage games and 2D platformers, you may get some enjoyment out of this. But to run-of-the-mill platformer fans, I warn and advise against playing this game. This is not satisfyingly hard, this is rage-inducing hard. I admittedly quit this game by the end of World 2 (out of 4) and I feel like I saved myself a good amount of my sanity by doing so. This game has the makings of a great platformer that I feel is ruined by horrifically annoying level design. Side note, this game's humor is also some of the worst I've ever seen put into a video game. Middle schoolers going around and screaming Chicken Jockey over and over is funnier than the humor in this game. Warning: if you play games and there are people around you who can hear your audio typically, first thing you go do is go to the options and turn the game on PG Mode so that you don't have the people you live with wondering why your computer is sensually moaning every time you die. Even if you are alone or have headphones, that got annoying real fast and I just turned it off just a few levels in.