Stone Age Sport Assessment: Tremendous Spy Raccoon

Over the previous few years, there’s been a rash of retro-inspired video games which have aimed to recapture the precise appear and feel of the arcade hits of outdated. The likes of Donut Dodo, Murtop, Annalynn, and extra have efficiently nailed the idea of the “easy to play, tough to grasp” system that made video games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong classics to start with. The factor that the majority of those video games have in widespread is that they’re all, identical to the arcade hits of the 80s, action-oriented. Twitch reflexes, leaping expertise, pace, these are nearly at all times some kind of issue. However Tremendous Spy Raccoon from developer Slain Mascot and writer Flynn’s Arcade, does issues a bit totally different. This can be a stealth recreation. 

Keep in mind, I didn’t say this was a stealth-action recreation. It’s not tactical espionage motion, both. This can be a recreation that’s all about not being seen, and nearly nothing else. Every of the sport’s 5 (effectively, 5 and a half, if you wish to get technical) phases has various secret paperwork floating round, and it’s as much as you to seize them with out being detected. There are monkeys operating round, owls, lasers, spotlights, and many others, and for those who a lot as the 1st step foot into their line of sight, that’s it. You lose a life. Tremendous Spy Raccoon is extremely unforgiving on this regard, so it’s important to maintain tabs on every part occurring on the display always if you wish to get by with an honest rating. 

One other factor that units this recreation aside from its contemporaries is how its lives system works. In a recreation like Money Cow DX, for instance, you might have a set variety of lives. When you’ve used them up, it’s Sport Over and it’s important to begin once more from the start. Tremendous Spy Raccoon truly permits you to proceed as many instances as you want, however each time you do, you lose factors. Identical goes for the sport’s sole powerup, a kind of potion that turns you invisible for a quick time period. You may seize it if you’d like, however it’ll value you your excessive rating.   

This leaves the stakes of the sport feeling a bit non-existent, until you care about grabbing a excessive rating. Which I’m positive gained’t be a problem for lots of gamers, however that’s by no means actually been my factor. 

In actual fact, Tremendous Spy Raccoon usually wasn’t actually for me. I’ve by no means been an enormous fan of stealth in video video games. That mentioned, I’d be mendacity if I advised you I didn’t have any enjoyable with this recreation. It’s obtained an important look, and the Romeo Raccoon character is fairly cool. The ultimate stage is extra action-oriented too, which was a neat change of tempo, however there was one thing right here that simply felt a bit slight general. It’s about as gentle on content material as numerous different video games of its ilk, however perhaps it’s simply my aversion to the stress of stealth video games that actually makes me not wish to come again to it fairly often. 

The underside line is, this can be a well-made recreation. In the event you’ve ever puzzled what a recreation like Donkey Kong can be like if it was all about stealth as a substitute of reaching the highest of the stage, this recreation will reply that weirdly particular query for positive. However for those who’re like me and aren’t a fan of stealth in your video video games, it’s in all probability greatest to keep away from this one. 

Typically, although? I like to recommend it. 

Tremendous Spy Raccoon is at present obtainable on Steam and Nintendo Change. 

Due to Flynn’s Arcade for supplying me with a evaluate code.