![]() ![]() You have the choice to try and sabotage whatever your fellow contestants are cooking up (a well placed crate can stop that auto crossbow from ruining your life) or to make your own creations more difficult. It’s not enough to make the course hard or impossible: you basically spend each round weighing whether you’re a better player than your friends/family in this scenario. Much like a demented version of Mario Maker, Ultimate Chicken Horse’s strength comes from the creativity and ideology of the players. The only technical thing I noticed is that there were a couple of times where the game couldn’t/wouldn’t load up the homemade levels from the online community, but we’ll get to that in a moment. The floating cursor that appears for character selection and item placement works well enough with joystick control, and, overall, the game runs predictably well in the Switch’s environment. Additionally, the animals have no collision with each other, so you can’t interfere with their success in the traditional way (though you have the potential to block their view a little in order to make a jump go awry). Half a Jo圜on is more than enough to successfully and comfortably control your animal, and, hint, none of them are unbalanced enough to make people scramble for one beast or another. The only buttons you need to worry about are run and jump, and the fact that you can sort of do a wall jump as long as the conditions are right. May the best animal win.ĭue to the simplistic nature of Ultimate Chicken Horse, the controls and the concept port incredibly well to the Nintendo Switch. If you wanna come out on top, you need to challenge yourself and the others to artfully, gracefully dodge your way to the finish. So if you all work together to make some easy, happy path to victory, there’s no points awarded. ![]() Oh, by the way: if everyone wins, no one wins. ![]() Occasionally the box will give you bombs that can be used to destroy the other players props, or coins that count for extra victory points if you collect them and get to the finish. But there’s plenty of insanity mixed in as well, from a massive paper airplane throwing machine to fireball launchers and, my personal favorite, incredibly localized black holes. Some are innocent enough: a wooden plank to walk across, a moving platform that can bridge a large gap. A box or two of screen props is presented, and players will have just a few seconds to grab an item to place somewhere on the game landscape. Each one of the stages presents a clear goal of “get to the flag.” At the beginning of each attempt, however, there is a twist. A horse, a chicken, a sheep and a raccoon (and, eventually, other animals!) all hang out together, and they like to race for the flag together. There isn’t a story to speak of for Ultimate Chicken Horse. Clever Endeavour Games (which is just a fantastic name) understands this, and it’s the key to success in their multiplayer madcap Ultimate Chicken Horse. No, the best kind of fun is when you get to also screw with your friends! After all, if your friendship can’t handle a little intentional mayhem, then you won’t be able to weather the coming storm when you both show up wearing the same dress to that Tim Horton’s opening next month. Quick, what’s more enjoyable than playing a game with your friends? If you answered “anything productive that furthers your life in a positive way,” get the hell out of here, you’re not my mother/guidance counselor/police officer at my parole hearing. ![]()
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