I’m looking to add a little bit of spice to the wintertime in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I’m not looking to play. I just want to play.
I think the pads dodgers game is great, but I think it deserves its own blog post.
padres dodgers is a simple arcade game with some nice graphics. It’s set on a snowy and snowy-sounding winter landscape. You have a pad that you use to run across the landscape, jumping from one location to another. You need to avoid as many deadly obstacles as possible to progress through the map.
The game is basically just a platformer but with a different theme. But because the pad looks like a snowflake instead of a triangle, it gets really fun to play. And it’s definitely fun to play.
And I’m not kidding, it’s an experience that will make you want to grab a pair of snow shovels and start hacking away at this winter landscape.
The game is meant to be played on a handheld, and I love that it is. You don’t have to get too fancy with it because it runs pretty smoothly on a DS.
Like most platformers, padres dodgers uses the DS hardware to play. It’s a shame though that it isnt really made as a platformer rather than a puzzle game like so many others. It’s basically a game for the DS, but that’s what makes it awesome. I loved the idea of having a great platformer on the DS, but having to deal with the clunky menus and the lack of a full-screen mode.
I had expected that padres dodgers would be a platformer, but after playing it yesterday it seems more like a puzzle game. There are 2 types of puzzles, and the problem is that the developers seem to have made them so they dont really fit the bill of what a puzzle game should be.
The padres dodgers team seems to have a lot of great ideas, but their implementation doesn’t quite fit the bill of what a puzzle game should be. It has a very simple, “dodge” mechanic, so it feels very easy to get your players into the right spots, but the whole thing is so convoluted that it feels like you’re making it up as you go with each new level.
So, it may be okay to make a puzzle game to some people, but for others it just feels like an exercise in frustration. The padres dodgers team has done a good job of making these puzzles a bit of an exercise in frustration, but it also has some great ideas, but they dont quite fit your expectations.