Glam’s Incredible Run: Escape from Dukha Review

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

Glam is the pink haired hero on a mission to save lots of 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, cut up throughout eleven chapters. 

Glam has just a few tips up her sleeve, the principle one being swinging from branches by utilizing her hair. She will be able to additionally soar, climb and wall soar to get across the quite a few difficult ranges on provide. Every degree is one thing of an impediment course which duties you with crossing from one facet to a different. There are additionally bonus cassette tapes to gather in most of the ranges.

That is the place my fundamental difficulty lies with Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha. The management scheme is inaccurate, and totally irritating. Glam is heavy weighted but in addition slippy to manage, which means you’ll usually overstep into spikes or different hazards. You solely must 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 difficulty with tough platformers, however the problem right here is for all of the unsuitable 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. Consequently you’ll die an terrible lot, however fortunately there isn’t a actual penalty for doing so. You’ll simply be zapped again to the beginning of the extent.

In equity, there are a number of ranges in Glam’s Unbelievable Run: Escape from Dukha, which is sweet worth for cash in a single sense as the sport is priced at an inexpensive £4.19. Nonetheless, 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 via in any respect. A handful of fundamental mechanics equivalent to change managed platforms, and weighted pulleys are used time and again. 

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

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

There are additionally sixty multiplayer ranges on provide if you wish to get a good friend concerned. This can be a fairly related 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 advocate it to everybody else.

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