Recent reviews by Sampapa Spinach

I really want to like this game. I gave it many fair shots but it really comes down to a few things that makes this unfun for me.

First is first zone experience. Some of the encounters in the first zone are frustrating. Many are set up so that it makes it impossible to deal any sort of meaningful damage outside of bombs, while bombs on some levels are incredibly hard to hit on a regular basis. Some fights just seem absolutely unfair, like the slime boss which just kills your orb's momentum and essentially kills the entire point of the game.

Second is the lack of any meaningful and builds. There is hardly any synergy in the game and the synergy there is lacks any way to obtain the synergy outside of hoping and blind luck. Later cruciball levels rely on these almost impossible to obtain synergies to be comfortable in beating the stage.

Third is just all around weird physics. Orbs will sometimes bounce in strange ways, while this would be fine and easy to overlook, there are many times the orb will bounce in some weird way causing you to go to a path you did not want to go down, leading to a run end. When you compare the bouncing to something like Peggle, there's something that's off about it.

Finally there's just a rancid RNG element that really dampers the game. Sometimes a reload will be in an absolute awful spot requiring you to use multiple other orbs to open a path to the reload. As the game lacks any meaningful way to build yourself for the boss you are coming up to, sometimes you lose just because the game didn't give you the items you need to fight that boss. Seemingly more negative random events than positive also doesn't help this.

I wish Peglin had ways to control RNG. Maybe a way to organize your orb order, so that you aren't at the mercy of RNG at the start of every fight and reload. A way to set your orb focus prior to starting the game, like selecting a class in other similar roguelites.

Overall I really, really want to like Peglin and I gave it plenty of time to win me over. I just can't find a way to keep playing. If you stay at lower cruciball levels, it's an easy push and an enjoyable experience. But if you want to push higher, it's frustrating and you will lose a lot to situations outside of your control, and it's just not for me.

Really good game

A short but impacting game that is really worth the play.

i hate this game please play it

You can kill lots of dendes

obamnsaa i saw him

I think the last time I had to sit back and really stew on a decision in a video game was with Bastion. Play this game.

I'm a little less afraid to die now.

I peed on a battleship and destroyed the military

im da king