Nintendo 64

Glover

Glover is op het eerste gezicht een vreemde game met ietwat lastige controls, maar wanneer je die eenmaal onder de knie hebt, is het pret met hoofdletter P.

Hasbro's first game shows a lot of creativity and promise. This is a very good game. It would be a great game if the worlds were better fleshed out, the camera angles were easier to maneuver, and the character controls were more intuitive and natural (though I understand this is extremely challenging). Basically, they should have played a few more games of Super Mario World before they called this one done. I would only recommend this game to fairly hard core video gamers who like comic animation games.

Glover reminds me a lot of Iggy's Reckin' Balls in that they both look like simple or boring games, but underneath the kiddie candy-coated exterior lies a good game with an amazing amount of depth. Kudos to Hasbro Interactive for bringing something original to the tired platform genre. If you've got the time, try Glover on for size.

I'd love to be able to wholly recommend this for it's original perspective on a tired genre, but it's let down by some flaws that can't be ignored. The controls seem to rely more luck than judgement, not in the least because Glover himself and the ball seem to operate under different laws of physics. On top of this, the camera system is incredibly obstructive and often makes solving the simple puzzles more difficult than necessary.

Voilà un jeu qui s'annonçait bien : un concept novateur qui paraissait séduisant, des photos d'écran alléchantes, mais la mauvaise jouabilité ternit le tableau. Souhaitons qu'Hasbro continue dans la voie de l'innovation, mais en portant une plus grande attention au gameplay de ses jeux.