qomp2 is the sequel to 2021’s qomp and goes above and past its predecessor. The ingenious and creative puzzle-platformer, developed by Graphite Lab and printed by Atari themselves, flips the script on 1972’s Pong, providing you with management of the ball. Who’da thunk!
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Dropping you into the world of qomp2, you’ll navigate labyrinths, remedy puzzles and dodge hazards. And also you’ll do all this with simply two buttons! The A button pivots you both up or down 45° alongside your present trajectory. The ZR button offers you slightly enhance which might break blue objects, and acts as your work together button for choose conditions comparable to exiting black holes which cease you mid-air, or activating latches for locked doorways.
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Outdoors of those interactions, your ball is in a perpetual state of movement, from both left-to-right or vice versa. For the completionists/masochists there’s a collectable token per stage, and paired with the obstacles and fixed motion, you’ll undoubtedly be stored in your toes. Just like after I performed Tremendous Meat Boy, I used to be capable of simply snag a number of the earlier tokens and felt actual smug, till the later ones began kicking my butt and I needed to skip some for the sake of ending the stage. In contrast to Tremendous Meat Boy nonetheless you do have the posh of mid-stage checkpoints. And thank goodness ‘cos it will get rattling tough. To not point out the sensible but brutal boss battles.
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Regardless of a framerate drop on one stage, and a respawn problem with a selected checkpoint on one other, the sport ran fairly completely. I did have a gripe with one water stage, whereby the necessity to enhance and likewise dive with the ZR button overlapped a bit an excessive amount of, however I used to be capable of adapt with a little bit of trial and error.
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Graphite Lab have crafted one thing actually particular on the inspiration of a basic. A good puzzle-platformer with an distinctive and expertly executed premise, qomp2 is a stroke of genius 50 years within the making.
Ranking: 4.5/5