Ah, this should be quick. A nice and simple Fortune Cookie, I like it.
I guess I should start by saying that before I played this game, the only real background on the Ice Climbers I had for a long time was that they were in the later two Super Smash Bros. Series. I later saw a small blip here and there of the actual game, but I finally got to try it out when it was released for free by way of the 3DS Ambassador Program.
Ice Climbers is a game where you attempt to climb to the top of maybe infinite stages by way of icy platforms in a straight-fowardly vertical platforming. You have to break the ice blocks above you in order to reach the next floor of the stage while having to deal with enimies that will fill in your holes as well as send you tumbling to the bottom if the get the chance to give you a good shove. Armed with your hammer, smashing ice and polar bears is your only way to proceed.
Sounds pretty good right? And it would be except for one thing.
The controls. They are pretty bad.
You see, you make these really awkward jumps and which send you forward next to nothing. Now the platforming is vertical, so that shouldn't be a problem, right? Well the problem is that you do have to move sideways once you get up there, and it's much harder to do that without a running start. Another problem is the moving clouds, which you can't jump through, that go pretty fast and are necessary for your progression.
Another problem is the bounding boxes vs. the sprites. Either the Ice Climber or the platform's sprites do not accurately portray where you can actually land. You will find yourself endlessly going through platforms that look as if half of your body is on top of. This is especially tricky on small platforms and small moving clouds.
Even with those major faults, that doesn't keep this game for being an adequate time waster. I'm not sure of its current price point, but if it's around 1 or 2 dollars, it'd probably be worth that.
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