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Playing Hi Score Mode of Arcade Archives Hopping Mappy on PS4!
Aside from a potentially color-strobing formation of kittens on pogo sticks, I love the bright and colorful aesthetic of Hopping Mappy with its waving cat statues, checkerboard grass patterns, and Old West font.
Don't think I can keep playing it though because its one button is "Accelerate" which really does speed you up so much that you have to keep it held down pretty much all the time, it feels like, and that doesn't go down well with my crunky old shoulder. ; P Seems like a significant design flaw; like, just make that pretty much the speed all the time, you know? I suppose you need a slower speed if you're good to weave through the mesmeric bouncing cat formations (having bouncing movement patterns for the on-rails enemies was genius, it makes them so hard to read = oo), but then make it a "Slow" button instead. ; P
Maybe that's just an excuse because I finally got to stage 11 and there's a horrific cat pogo formation there that I never want to face again; got through it once by sheer luck (oh wow watching it back, you CAN hop over pogoing cats if they're at the bottom of their arc; also, there's a gap at the top of that pattern 'p'), then it killed me twice and that was it, I hereby retire after hitting a five-digit score that got me firmly into the top 100 of the Hi Score ranking table, since apparently very few people have been tempted to leave free-form criminal hi-jinks Mappy for this pattern-based lawn spin-off. |
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