Very good game, I love this series and I hope it continues!! :D
Reviews for "Pretentious Game 4"
You made me feel for pixel squares that probably took 0.1 second to draw, that takes some skill. Nice job man :)
I have to admit that I was really quite impressed by this. I think the best part was how it really did work out well as a puzzle game. Sometimes, I just seemed to beat the levels by luck. It helped that you could really try anything here. I guess I just wish it was easier. What little detail you have works quite well.
I like the music too. It's important to keep calm in a game like this. It reminds me of the shape series. It's just a nicely put together game. You don't need more detail in this.
Lovely continuation to the Pretentious Games series, very good puzzles and very interesting mechanics, that not to mention the cheesy, yet emotional storyline.
The music is a stock piano song, just like in all other games in the series (the game wouldn't be pretentious without a mellow tune!), and the graphics consist of squares over a white background, but that's okay, because that's the familiar style of all games in this series, changing them would be a mistake, and they do have a certain charm to them in spite of their simplicity.
As for the gameplay, I really like how this time you move two characters around, each with a different skill (sister jumps higher, brother pushes blocks), allowing for a wide array of different, brain teasing puzzle ideas, which are very well explored in the games' several stages. Most stages are designed so that none of the siblings ever feels redundant, and that made for pretty clever and challenging stages all the way to the end. The gameplay style itself also varies after a certain point in the game, which is common to all games in the series, and in this one specifically, you change from simultaneously moving the siblings to moving one of them at a time, and then to the stages with only a single sibling, which allows for yet an extra set of puzzle ideas, and an extra pint of variety in the game experience as a whole.
The one thing that bugged me a bit about the one-at-a-time part is that it was a bit annoying to control when you had to, for instance, click the brother on top of the sister when the sister is at the peak of a jump, because you had to click just in the right moment, and that angered me more often than not. Also, the trick in the simultaneous part to get the brother on top of the sister (no pun intended) took a little while to figure out, but that's okay, because it gets easy after a while.
Finally, there's also the story, and that's one thing I really liked. The friendship between brother and sister can be a beautiful, beautiful thing, and I know that from personal experience. Brought a smile to my face at first, and after that, a rollercoaster of emotions (about which I won't go into detail, to avoid spoilers).
Overall, adorable experience, very challenging puzzles and great game.
keybol responds:
thank you so much for this comment, I read every bit of it then read it again! Thanks for not revealing the spoilers! as for the clicking the brother, sorry about that but I had meant a different solution where you really don't need to be quick to switch between siblings. What you did is more of a solution for the skilled. Thanks!
Love this series! Would have rated it a 5, but having to have the brother jump onto the sister was SO annoying! Great game though <3