Epic Dumpster Bear 1.5 DX: Dumpster Hearth Rebirth is an extremely foolish identify, and that is an extremely foolish recreation.
A 2D platformer that revels in how low lease it’s – all of the character fashions look terrible, and the animation is shonky past perception – it’s a large reduction that that is truly way more playable than it seems. Not that that might be even remotely troublesome.
You play because the titular Dumpster Bear, who has gained nice powers due to an unlucky incident involving a dumpster and poisonous waste. The plot, instructed through frequent cutscenes, is as fundamental because it will get. However the script is hilarious and weird, and I at all times loved what deliberately melodramatic line or plot level was going to be thrown at me subsequent.
The platforming itself is fundamental, together with your predominant strikes being a touch, double soar and a wall soar. That is a part of the enchantment although, as a result of the motion is the large draw.
Leaping round these levels is massively satisfying, with Dumpster Bear being a nimble fellow.
Bear-ly holding itself collectively
The precise degree design itself is pretty easy, with a spread of weird enemies thrown your means and the emphasis is on quick motion previous all of them.
There’s some selection thrown in through boss battles and power-up centered levels, together with ones the place you get the flexibility to throw an infinite quantity of bombs. Getting a brown bear to chuck a stream of bombs at a military of marching cows isn’t one thing I’ll ever neglect.
There’s a sure enchantment to this recreation that may be very exhausting to elucidate while you have a look at screenshots or watch footage of it. It controls effectively and there’s simply sufficient selection to maintain you taking part in, if solely to see what weird character mannequin you’ll encounter subsequent.
Nonetheless we discovered Epic Dumpster Bear 1.5 DX: Dumpster Hearth Rebirth’s uneven presentation typically bled into the gameplay a bit of too typically.
We discovered a bug within the very first degree that crashed the sport for instance, and typically the shonkiness could make seeing the place to go and what to do troublesome. Particularly within the bonus 3D sections, which frequently veer a bit of near being unfair and irritating.
This can be a funds title, however one with extra allure than most video games on this value bracket. So this can be a exhausting title to attain. For followers of ironic low funds kitsch this may very well be a 4 star recreation – for these unable to look past the visuals this may very well be a one star expertise.
Finally although, in the event you’re searching for a brand new 2D platformer to play and don’t thoughts just a few tough edges you might definitely do worse.
The nice
- Strong controls
- Nice sense of humour
- The value is true
The unhealthy
- Many unfair deaths
- Maybe a bit of TOO janky