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Over the course of 150 levels in the main ‘Classic’ mode, you’ll be slowly introduced to new puzzle mechanics to keep you challenged. Firstly you’ll just need to work out how to avoid dead ends, then screen wrapping is introduced. In typical arcade fashion, moving off the right hand side lets you appear on the left and so on. Soon coloured warping blocks are introduced too and then other traps to avoid. The premise never changes – you still need to cover all the heart patterned floor. With each new challenge comes a bit of a difficulty spike as you work out how to clear the level and many have several paths to clear them. This narrows down to a single route as the game gets harder. ROMSLAB

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Outside of that, Mochi Mochi Boy has a Dungeon mode which made little sense to me. Whereas Classic lets you take all the time you need, Dungeon places a timer on your progess and each failure docks you time. It places lots of weird traps in the levels randomly but the random generation seems to clump them together in strange patterns. Whilst the levels are still passable, they make little tactical sense and the difficulty ramps up far too quickly. It also tries to make traps rhythmic but the gap is anything but rhythmic so it doesn’t gel together very well. During my play time, I had by far the most fun in classic mode. There are also 100 collectable slimes but aside from looking cute (but sadly still).

Extra caution is advised in the devilish dungeon mode, where hidden dangers like spikes, bombs, spring traps, and monsters await you.

They do nothing and don’t really give a proper incentive in the game to collect them all. It all feels a bit low thought. A 2 player race mode would have made this game much more replayable. Making the slimes relevant to the game would have been nice too. You can paint your Mochi Mochi Boy a colour – you could have had the slimes unlock patterns or something. It wouldn’t have taken much – but then this feels undercooked throughout you can expect an easy ride as far as achievements are concerned; all of which you can mop up in the space of thirty minutes or less, and none of which are all that difficult to unlock. So, with the fundamentals out of the way, what exactly does the game entail? Elex II PS5

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Being that your task is to cover every tile on the screen in order to move to the next level. The rules, however, are a bit more strict in this game by comparison. You’ll start each level, whether you’re playing Tower or Dungeon, at a spawn point. The goal is simple; move around each level and cover Mochi Mochi Boy’s body over any tile that can be traversed. Once you’ve completely covered a level’s tiles, you’ll get a success screen and will be shoehorned straight to the next level. The game starts out quite simple, but soon ramps up the difficulty via throwing in some deviously designed levels, as well as throwing in some tricky mechanics. That said, don’t expect much depth, because you wont get that is perhaps overly simplistic by design, and as such.

But be careful—once you step onto one of the tiles, you can’t go back to where you’ve been!

Rarely provides much difference in its play throughout. Sure, the levels may get tougher and the mechanics may alter as new features are introduced, but things to get very samey-samey before long. Then again, for its price, we cant really scoff. When it comes to the game’s handling, you’re only afforded movement in four directions, and truth be told, that’s all you need to keep on top of. There’s a time limit to be mindful of too, but it’s usually very generous throughput. The rules are simple; you cant cross your own body, meaning if you accidentally isolate a tile and block it off with your body, you’ll need to perform a quick-restart to go at it again. Elite Soldier Shooter Switch NSP

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During the initial stages of play, the proceedings are very simple and usually consist of little more than clearing a few straightforward levels. Though, before too long, the game ramps up its difficulty through the introduction of those previously alluded to mechanics. I found myself truly scratching my head on more than one occasion; perseverance is key here rather stress-free as Mochi Mochi Boy does not have any lives to lose himself, meaning that there is no penalty for failing a level. However, seeing Mochi Mochi Boy’s friends gently up and down as if breathing as they sit at the side of the screen adds to the incentive to try harder and reach the end of the maze for their sake; and of course.

To do this, you’ll need to be clever and outsmart the devil by stretching, flipping, and using the tiles on the 130+ floors as warp stones.

Competitiveness spurring the player onto the next level. The game can be viewed as being simple but the levels gradually get harder and more time is needed to think through the best path out of the maze. Levels can be replayed at any time and are not timed. However, there is a timer with dungeon mode selected, where extra time increases when a friend is rescued. Both the joystick and the directional pad on the Vita can be used to control Mochi Mochi Boy, with the d-pad feeling more natural and easier to use since each move requires an input, rather than pressing and holding the d-pad continuously the main goal of the game is to clear each stage by filling the entirety of it up with your body.

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Being a puzzle game, the only control you really need to keep in mind is simply how to move. There is a restart and a kill button however, in case you get stuck on a stage or just want to quit out of the mode entirely. The closest to any comparisons I can make off the top of my head would be if the score chaser Snake met Wallace’s Gym puzzle from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. It is quite an exciting set-up, a battle against the devil himself to save your cutesy slime friends. Well, the gameplay has nothing to do with this. Even the background graphics of the puzzles fail to reflect this plot, and it becomes so irrelevant to the point of feeling completely alienated from the rest of the game. Elliot Quest Switch NSP 

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