Within the new platformer Onion Assault, you play a shirtless fellow who spends most of his time selecting onions and throwing them at folks. I’m unsure if this appeals to me due to its randomness or as a result of that’s precisely how I’d wish to stay my life.
I imply, that’s not the complete recreation. You don’t must be a shirtless man; you could be his mother. You possibly can throw different issues, not simply onions. There’s loads of leaping to be accomplished, and generally you’ll must battle military tanks. Nonetheless, an general satisfying existence.
Onion Assault comes from Hörberg Productions, the developer that introduced us Mechstermination Pressure and Gunman Clive. The sport performs like Tremendous Mario Bros. 2, along with your chosen character operating and leaping (principally) left to proper throughout a colourful world as he/she makes use of numerous objects to remove enemies and remedy some puzzles.
This world, known as Onionia, is immediately charming. It’s sparsely detailed, however richly coloured, and the background components bop together with the music like in a Thirties cartoon. Enemies and weapons are simple to detect, permitting you to concentrate on efficiently getting from right here to there.
Onionia is split into completely different places of 4 ranges every, with a complete of 16 ranges to play by means of. That’s pretty quick, however there’s sufficient incentive to warrant a number of playthroughs. As one would count on, every stage has three hidden cash to gather, and a few had been so difficult to succeed in that I had no downside leaving them behind. Merely attending to the tip of the degrees calls for sufficient consideration.
As I discussed, you’re not simply throwing onions right here. There are chasms to cross, switches to activate, bosses to defeat, and no scarcity of issues to keep away from. The problem begins early, too, as many enemies (we’ll name them sub-bosses) first require you to determine the way to defeat them. As a lot as I want it had been true, you may’t simply knock out a tank by throwing an onion at it.
So, very similar to within the aforementioned (and superior) Mechstermination Pressure, shedding to enemies is usually a requirement of studying what to do.
The controls, sadly, don’t ease this course of. Onion Assault usually requires you to leap on an enemy’s head to both decide it up for throwing or to get the peak you have to attain a platform or change. However motion doesn’t really feel exact, making it tough to time your touchdown. And in the event you miss the enemy’s head, you find yourself proper beside it the place it might harm you. So, by the point you attain the bosses that require loads of ability, you’re already annoyed and down some hearts. Even the aiming feels bizarre. I used to be an hour in earlier than I felt adept at inserting my throws, and the problem ramps up significantly in the event you’re not in a position to knock an enemy from a platform earlier than it’s important to bounce up or down there your self. A number of checkpoints imply you don’t have to begin from scratch every time you’re killed, however stage fatigue will nonetheless set in.
None of that is that massive of a deal when you think about the sport could be accomplished in only a few hours. And that’s not that massive of a deal when you think about it prices simply $8. The frustration is a part of the expertise, and you’re going to get the gaming elation once you get by means of a very tough sequence or previous a decidedly nasty boss. Onion Assault is a enjoyable method to cross a protracted automotive trip or a lazy Saturday afternoon. And if you would like all these cash, perhaps even a vacation weekend.
At any price, it helps to justify the shirtless, vegetable-throwing way of life I’ve been searching for.