Overall, Spoiler Alert is a fun arcade. It could be longer, but its length is actually a good thing, since it doesn’t get too repetitive and forced. It looks very basic, but contains enough elements to feel like a complete game, so if you’re in a mood for a short, unusual platformer, Spoiler Alert is a perfect candidate.
Spoiler Alert
Megafuzz · Dec 16, 2014
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Spoiler Alert is a video game that tests your platforming skills… in reverse. It’s a comedy platformer that you play backwards. When you pick this game up, it has already been beaten. The big bad boss is defeated, the coins are collected and the princess has been rescued. Why, oh why? Unraveling this mystery takes you through the entire game, from the last level to the first. You must uncollect the coins, revive the enemies and avoid nasty time paradoxes. In other words, you must uncomplete the game by playing it backwards.
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- 7.0Being so tightly restricted to following a specific path doesn’t always succeed, but while it takes some time to be truly comfortable with the backwards concept, Spoiler Alert is certainly memorable. As a way of making the auto-runner a bit more interesting than usual, it’s worth taking a look at.
- 6.0A game so focused on sending the player backward, that it never thought about whether it was propelling its genre forward in any meaningful way.
- 4.0Spoiler Alert fails to remain interesting over the course of its brief runtime, and while I found myself interested in seeing what would be thrown my way early on, a lack of imagination keeps the entire package from feeling complete. A unique concept needs a supporting cast of good ideas to flourish, and Spoiler Alert's lone conceit doesn't have the charms to carry the weight of an entire game on its shoulders.
- But this is a medium built around interactivity and Spoiler Alert is a restrictive on-rails experience that doesn’t give nearly enough power to the player. As innovative as its main concept is, Spoiler Alert abandons the inherent interactive element of video games, with only a terribly linear and bleak experiment still in tow.
- 6.0Spoiler Alert has a nice idea, but it doesn't quite manage to see that idea through the to the bitter end, instead becoming a little less fun with each leap.
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