Glam’s Incredible Run: Escape from Dukha Review

They are saying to by no means decide a ebook by its cowl. However generally you may have a look at a sport and have a reasonably good concept what you’re going to get. Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha is one such sport. The self proclaimed “onerous, motion packed acrobatic platformer” just about does what it says on the tin.

Glam is the pink haired hero on a mission to avoid wasting her mom from an evil witch who has taken her captive, in an effort to suppress her powers. Don’t fear an excessive amount of about maintaining with the story, as that is purely background to the pretty prolonged platforming gameplay. You’ll face over 220 ranges in single participant, break up throughout eleven chapters. 

Glam has a number of methods up her sleeve, the primary one being swinging from branches by utilizing her hair. She will additionally bounce, climb and wall bounce to get across the quite a few difficult ranges on supply. Every degree is one thing of an impediment course which duties you with crossing from one aspect to a different. There are additionally bonus cassette tapes to gather in lots of the ranges.

That is the place my major subject lies with Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha. The management scheme is inaccurate, and completely irritating. Glam is heavy weighted but in addition slippy to manage, that means you’ll typically overstep into spikes or different hazards. You solely should go close to a spike and also you’ve had it. Additionally, Glam will generally fail to seize onto a wall or swing from a department, sending her plummeting to an early grave. I’ve no subject with troublesome platformers, however the problem right here is for all of the flawed causes. The margin for error is just about zero.

This contradiction is why Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha is so irritating. The degrees are designed to require pinpoint accuracy from the participant, however the management setup does little or no to help this. In consequence you’ll die an terrible lot, however fortunately there is no such thing as a actual penalty for doing so. You’ll simply be zapped again to the beginning of the extent.

In equity, there are quite a lot of ranges in Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha, which is nice worth for cash in a single sense as the sport is priced at an affordable £4.19. Nevertheless, concepts are in brief provide and earlier than lengthy the degrees slip right into a repetitive, irritating rhythm which isn’t a lot enjoyable to play by way of in any respect. A handful of primary mechanics akin to swap managed platforms, and weighted pulleys are used again and again. 

The shortage of selection means there are too many ranges to make the sport pleasant for any sustainable time frame. It finally ends up feeling extra like an endurance check than the rest, and my persistence ran dangerously skinny. Even amassing the bonus tapes isn’t well worth the trouble as you aren’t actually rewarded for doing so. Earlier than lengthy you’ll quit even making an attempt to gather these.

Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha appears fairly common too, going for that retro platformer fashion like numerous others have adopted through the years. Nevertheless, just like the gameplay itself the environments lack selection, biking by way of a handful of designs with every chapter. There are a number of customisation choices for Glam, together with altering her jewelry, hair and boots. Nevertheless, these modifications are restricted to small dashes of color, her preliminary fashion stays the identical.

There are additionally sixty multiplayer ranges on supply if you wish to get a buddy concerned. This can be a fairly comparable affair to the only participant mode, full with all the problems that include it. 

Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha is a basically flawed sport which provides one thing for the platforming sadists on the market, however not sufficient to suggest it to everybody else.

Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha is on the market from the Xbox Retailer