Fun stuff, great for a casual type game

Alien Spidy is a cute little guy. His butt's shiny and he's got his cute little poses through the game. Don't let that fool you though. He's still a freaking spider and as such, he can be a bit of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

The idea is simple enough; get through the levels using your jumps and webs, slinging yourself from tree's and such, all while collecting little glowing orbs. There's obstacles to avoid, such as rolling rocks, thorns, mushrooms and such. Like I said, puzzle platformer 101. All in all, this game play's not too shabby! It can be fun and it is most definitely challenging! It's got some big problems though.

Granted, these problems may just be my skill, maybe it's my third party xbox controller. The controls are kinda of tough from time to time. The main mechanic of this game is shooting your webs in mid air to attach to tiny platforms, using your momentum to throw you across gaps and obstacles. Your webs do not always shootin the angle you want them to though. There's times where having to restart check points feels pretty cheap since you would have sworn you used your right stick to spit webs in just the right angle, just to have it shoot straight up.

The controls aren't game breaking, but they're certainly frustrating. A bit of a blemish on an otherwise cute and fun puzzler!

This game is a nice concept marred by awful execution and unrealistic expectations of the player. The way to score points requires you to be absolutely perfect most of the time if you want to get more than even 1 star, much less 5. The web-physics are also a little buggy, every time the web connect the spidy jitters around weirdly and loses momentum for no reason. This is a game simply not worth trying to finish, and that such a small percentage of players has even cleared the first world (which I did manage) should be a red flag that it's not just difficult, but flat-out broken.

I would not recommend this game mostly because of how frustrating the controls are. I love challenging games, but when the main challenge of a game feels like it comes from poor controls and unpredictable input then I feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with the design of the game. I tried on both keyboard and controller and neither of them were able to provide a satisfying feel. But I managed to plow through all the levels in the first world. At which point the game forces you to collect enough stars to progress to the second world. Since stars are earned by your score at the end of the level, and your score is determined by how successfully you can combo collect pickups, and to collect pickups you need to have precise input...well you see where I'm going. I abruptly stopped right after that.

Average platformer. You play as a spider and you have to navigate through certain objectives. I wouldnt personally reccomend it but if you can get it from $.01 to a dollar i'd say go for it.