Ninja Pizza Girl (2015)

I played this for about 20-25 minutes until i reached a level in which the free-running aspect is abandoned and you have to get X of item Y. I failed and simply didn't feel like carrying on playing.

Up until that point i was on the fence about the game. It's a decent platformer with a nice twist - you cannot die by falling, there's always more level below. Unfortunately, this gimmick is also a requirement because you often have no idea where you're going despite the fairly simplistic graphics. It would have helped if it was clearer what is part of the background and what isn't.

NPG isn't a bad game, but it's not very good either. I would recommend it if you like platformers and it's on sale.

"Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! " - it's not a good game though.

The game is a mixture of runner and a platformer. You are a ninja pizza girl that scales the roofs in order to deliver the pizza within the time given. On the way you need to tackle time, obstacles and enemies. It's all accompanied by some sort of story presented in dialog between the main character and her friends.

The story is hard to follow. It's presented in a way that made me not really care. And while it might try to talk about bullying and other serious stuff - it couldn't make me care. In order to emphasis the emotional struggles of the main character a mechanic is introduced to take a tea in order to lighten up your mood. A bad mood is indicated by visual cue - everything starts to get darker and gloomy - it's an interesting thing - though found it more annoying than anything else.

The controls for a runner do not feel good. They feel a bit laggy and not very responsive. The level design is bad as well. The main path is unclear and it seems that falling at any point just forces you to take a different route so you don't feel all that challenged. The various uninspired pickups seem to be placed randomly or just without a sense. The enemies are very repetitive and with just a basic behaviour. Jumping, sliding, wall jumping does not feel good as well - with trampoline jumping being the biggest offender. Overall there's just no fun in playing the game.

The soundtrack is poor as well. It's a form of dub-step but not very energetic. The visuals look a bit like generic unity assets - a very bland sort of 3D models and environments.

On the good side though there doesn't seem to be any technical problems with it - but that's as much positivity I can muster for the game.

Overall I can't recommend it to anyone. The game is just no fun.