Move or Die Review
It had a nice feel to it, the trailer looked smooth and the gameplay seemed different, so I picked up this little title to give it a go with my family, but did it live up to my expectations?
I have to say, initially, it was seemed like a really bare bones party platformer at first, you go in and select your character and you are loaded up into a few levels, somewhere you sliced each other up with chainsaws or attempted to race each other through a course.
A few times though we died without ever really knowing why, it was pretty average, then it occurred to me that there was a bar down the bottom with the corresponding color of each player, then it all made sense like watching sherlock holmes figure out a riddle or the meaning of life when you finally hit puberty.
The title of the game was literally called Move or Die, and if you did not move you damn well died, I felt like a complete idiot as I realized all those times I stood still not moving trying to be strategic and in return I exploded and died, you had to continiously move no matter what, there was a timer and everything, it made so much sense now.
All the gamemodes were perfectly designed to revolve around this mechanic like attempting to balance yourself on a single block while moving side to side (And no jumping does not count as moving you have to be touching the ground) or even when everyones invisible and you have to find where other players are, sounds easy except for the fact that when you move you make little footprints, so other players could take not of where you were and come to kill you, so It was like a juggling act to stay incognito and not explode from inactivity at the same time.
Even before we knew this HUGE detail, each little match is really only 15-30 seconds long and each and every gamemode was as bloody intense as watching 12 years a slave (a very intense/sad movie) after a few beers, oh and did I mention it has a level editor, meaning you can download maps made by others as well.
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To summarise a bit, the gameplay was fun, the graphics are quirky and the competetive aspect was strong with this game, one of my siblings got extremely mad and hit me when I pulled off a horrible move that forced her out of the round because I felt like being an ass (Hold on this states that there are times when I’m not being an ass, which would be untrue, just to clarify).
The only thing I would probably nitpick as is the lack of gamemodes, like seriously Buzz Jungle Party has more gamemodes than this game, some of them are better too just quietly, I know you can download community maps but if you lack internet (Like me) it’s not liable, which in turn means we
never really revisited the game after trying it out, making it’s replay factor pretty low.
7/10
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