Post by KostaAndreadis @ 04:53pm 02/10/17 | 0 Comments
Sometimes a particular look can be the reason that drives an experience. In Jettomero: Hero of the Universe you take control of a clumsy robot, flying from planet to planet, trying not to destroy everything. There isn't a lot more to it than that, but even so there's just something about this charming new indie.
Charming would be an apt way to describe Jettomero: Hero of the Universe, where the sheer style of the presentation and the way in which Jettomero stumbles around like a toddler trying to master that thing we call walking is hard to resist.
The only real downside, is that the actual game portion feels one or two mechanics away from being complete. And matching the presentation. Instead what you have here is an almost meditative experience, a simple loop of exploration with an even simpler loop of robot battles in the form of button mashing. There are also word jumbles thrown in too. It’s telling when one of the biggest motivators, in pure gameplay terms, is finding different robot parts and then chopping and changing Jettomero’s look to suit your own tastes.
Telling, in that Jettomero’s look is the reason you’ll keep playing.