Using front and rear level planes, and never asking too much of you in regards to backtracking to seek out the hidden items. Level design is interesting in some regard. ThereвЂ™s also no grace period between one hit and the next, so you can find yourself losing two hearts in quick succession if you are just a little out with your timings, which will happen due to the controls being so fiddly. Some of the collision detection is so woeful that landing on them can randomly be deemed as either a kill or a heart lost hell, I had several moments where I took hits despite being a good inch (in terms of screen space) away from my so called assailant. Some of the enemies you can kill by jumping on and some you canвЂ™t, although this isnвЂ™t always very well communicated by the designs. While the music and sound effects are inoffensive but forgettable, over time I barely even registered they were there at all. Considering the game isnвЂ™t a graphical powerhouse this problem doesnвЂ™t really make much sense. It wouldnвЂ™t be so bad if we were talking about particle effects and monsters flying everywhere, but weвЂ™re talking two level planes and a handful of enemies.

At busy times (IвЂ™m generous with the term busy) the frame rate can judder horrendously. Textures are sharper, and some of the lighting effects look pretty good, but the initial charm of the paper-craft characters wanes quickly as models are repeated or revised. While this is an up-scaled iOS game it is using the extra power of the WiiU to improve the look somewhat. Per level you are granted three hearts вЂ“ lose all three and you lose a life. Collecting one hundred regular buttons per level will grant an extra life, or you can pick up one of the many 1-ups hidden throughout.

Along the way you will attempt to collect three paper clips and one gold button per level as well as as many regular buttons as possible. So in Paper Monsters Recut youвЂ™ll find yourself jumping over holes, obstacles and onto enemy heads across 6 themed worlds. Now Crescent Moon Games line up with a port of their iOS platformer Paper Monsters, fashioned by Mobot Studios into a вЂњRecutвЂќ version for the WiiU. Games like NintendoвЂ™s Paper Mario and Media MoleculeвЂ™s Tearaway have used the ideas of worlds and characters made out of the stuff and given us some great experiences. You can draw on it, fold it into origami sculptures, print books onto it, you can even use it to wipe your backside.

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