Penny's Big Breakaway

Why aren't you playing the best platformer since Mario Odyssey?

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because none of the characters look frickable.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      really?
      that's it? You seriously can't play video games if you aren't also wacking it? What are you, one of those Family Guy Tiktok zoomers?

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why aren't you playing the best platformer since Mario Odyssey?
    Because I'm waiting to see if it goes on sale during Steams Spring Sale.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      how poor are you

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its a good game
    Penny did nothing wrong

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    my boomer brain can't get used to the controls

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just practice, anon. Also don't fall for the dual-stick meme.
      https://streamable.com/lz9i47

      Why did they release the ads AFTER the release? I'm only now seeing ads

      Yeah the marketing for this game has been a real shitshow. I found out about it two weeks before it came out because Tyson Hesse happened to repost a 30-second gameplay clip, otherwise I probably never would have heard of it. Shadowdropping amidst Helldivers 2 and fricking FF7 wasn't exactly a strong play either.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Shadowdropping amidst Helldivers 2 and fricking FF7 wasn't exactly a strong play either.
        This is also something the defenders won't admit to.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >the defenders
          why are you being gay and tribalistic over hating a game, moron-kun?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Because your passive-aggressiveness is off-putting and it's making me not want to play the game, which I'm sure is a fine game but its fans aren't doing it any favors with their unprofessionalism.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              They tried to have comfy threads only for 2 schizo morons cry about Mania for half the posts. I'm not being passive aggressive, I am actively calling you moronic.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you're going to let two people dictate how you treat others who may not know about the game due to the shadowdrop? Again, this is not professional and considering the people who made this game, bad press will hurt the game, including people like you who call others moronic and lash out for no reason.

                I'm a "defender" (ie. I like the game) and that's my post. I'm not sure why you think people who like the game would hesitate to admit that the marketing and launch have done it a disservice.

                Because the people who are making these threads are being obnoxious just because of a few shitposters. Maybe if they ignored them and tried to sell the game without any snarky remarks, others would give it a chance and grow to like it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >just because of a few shitposters
                It's like half the posts in every thread, anon. I dunno who has an axe to grind or why, but there's not a lot one can do to encourage actual discussion about the game once someone starts going "FLOP FLOP FLOP UGLY CHARACTER troony FLOP". I just close the thread and hope the next one is better.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                just because theyre furries doesnt mean they have to act like animals.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm a "defender" (ie. I like the game) and that's my post. I'm not sure why you think people who like the game would hesitate to admit that the marketing and launch have done it a disservice.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >that egregiously long wait time for the yo-yo to properly grab the ledge
        Criminal to be honest, this fricked me up so many times and half the time when it did work Penny would never be vaulted over the platform. It feels like there's a little too much unpredicability with Penny's moveset on whether they'll actually do the thing you want successfully, it pisses me off.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          On that particular ledge I figured out it was consistent if I angled it slightly (like 10-20 degrees) instead of being perpendicular to the wall. For a few others it seems like the yoyo needs to collide with something close to the edge for it to work consistently.

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The movement feels a bit odd to me, like there's a bit of a delay just running around and I don't like that

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      why the frick are you normally running

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why did they release the ads AFTER the release? I'm only now seeing ads

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Almost every major video game press site gives it a headline coverage when they released their previews
      >Perfect opportunity to give out their release date
      >Channels like Digital Foundry giving it free coverage
      >Almost everyone in the industry giving these guys a platform to announce something
      >Instead decide to launch the game by announcing its release on a 6am PDT/9am EST Nintendo PARTNER Direct (Not even an actual Nintendo Direct people watch)
      >Burried in-between a Splatoon 3 DLC drop and an SMTV expansion announcement
      >Also on the same day that the Elden Ring DLC was revealed
      If this game flops, I do NOT feel bad for them. These clowns had numerous, NUMEROUS opportunities to get the word out but they decided to do a memedrop. They must have been sniffing their own farts after Mania and think people owe them success. Any other indie dev would be praying to get the coverage that they did and these dumb fricks squandered it. This is entirely on them.

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    troony color scheme, shill

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    fast moving speedrun oriented 3d platformers are boring
    what is the point in detailed environments when there's an optimal path in the form of a straight line through the entire level?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Indie devs see clips like this and think "That's cool, we should design the game so the player has to do this" instead of "That's cool, we should design a game where players want to do this"

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >we should design the game so the player has to do this
        You literally don't have to do this.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          *gets swarmed by penguins and dies*
          Guess you weren't fast enough 😉

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            You can shake them off, anon.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            What happens when you stand still near the penguins anon

            See

            Anon, even a shitter like you can complete the game without doing anything fancy. Mastering the fancy stuff is fun though.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            I've already put about 20 hours into it so far, within striking distance of top 100 on 1-1 and then I'm gonna start practicing 7-1. Picking away at the remaining optional goals & coins when I don't feel like speed autism. Sonic Robo Blast 2 is probably still going to remain my favorite 3D platformer but this is the closest anything has come to making me reconsider that in a very long time.

            It's quite buggy, and you have to stick to 60fps or below or the physics get a little weird (though they're patching this), but it's fricking superb beneath the jank

            *presses the jump button twice*

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anon, even a shitter like you can complete the game without doing anything fancy. Mastering the fancy stuff is fun though.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Indie devs see clips like this and think "That's cool, we should design the game so the player has to do this" instead of "That's cool, we should design a game where players want to do this"

      you literally haven't played the fricking game
      you're complaining about it not doing shit that it literally fricking does

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        What happens when you stand still near the penguins anon

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          nothing?
          you can literally mash a to get them off you
          why are you pretending that at all has to do with swinging over half the fricking level at precise angles after hours of practice

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          What happens if you stand in front of a goomba in fricking mario you moron

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Well then mario takes a piss, that's what happens,

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game really stunk
    The only fun is "How fast can you beat the level???" If you aren't into speed running there's nothing here

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    post her breasts

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's better than Odyssey.

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    why does that character look to terrible?

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've been excited to play it since seeing the first trailer, but wasn't even aware it released already. They really fricked up the marketing.

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    what's the point of even having obstacles when you can just easily swing past everything
    why not make obstacles where swinging is required in that case

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Odyssey was shit platformer so that's not selling me on this.

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I already beat it, it's only like 5 hours long and I got other shit I wanna play
    Drop an update and maybe I'll pick it back up

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    At least Mario Odyssey was fun, balan wonderworld at the other hand.

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really tried to like this game, but frankly it's pretty disappointing
    >every level after the first world don't feel designed around being able to complete it within 1 combo since there's way too many stop-&-go level gimmicks that are often mandatory for progression like the palm trees from W2 or the swinging poles where your momentum isnt transferred when swinging from them
    >the actual platforming feels like guesswork due to the awful sense of depth in this game, anytime whenever there was an electric fence obstacle it felt like 50/50 crapshoot whether I was too close or not. The drop shadow is dogshit too, doesn't scale up or down based on proximity to the ground like a good 3D platformer would.
    >the combo system in general feels half-assed, arguably to the game's detriment since it's practically begging you to please do some schmovement for the postcard rewards when all you need to do is spam jump, dash-swing over and over again. Yet there's so many things in the levels that are designed to halt your momentum.
    >buggy as hell, can phase through moving platforms while performing peel-outs or just phase through anything because you were going to fast? I've consistently experienced me phasing through the ground and fricking up my combos.
    >bosses are awful, especially the last one.
    >collectibles and npc sidequests also break the game's momentum, and I know I could just ignore them but I'm a completionist. Game's a complete slog to 100%.

    This is the Mario Sunshine of 3D platformers in the most derogatory way I can say it. Solid movement mechanics held back by lack of focus and disjointed priorities + lots of bugs. It's bordering on good, but on the whole I didn't think it was fun.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      FRICK I meant the mario sunshine of INDIE 3d platformers I'm moronic.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I really tried to like this game, but frankly it's pretty disappointing
        >every level after the first world don't feel designed around being able to complete it within 1 combo since there's way too many stop-&-go level gimmicks that are often mandatory for progression like the palm trees from W2 or the swinging poles where your momentum isnt transferred when swinging from them
        >the actual platforming feels like guesswork due to the awful sense of depth in this game, anytime whenever there was an electric fence obstacle it felt like 50/50 crapshoot whether I was too close or not. The drop shadow is dogshit too, doesn't scale up or down based on proximity to the ground like a good 3D platformer would.
        >the combo system in general feels half-assed, arguably to the game's detriment since it's practically begging you to please do some schmovement for the postcard rewards when all you need to do is spam jump, dash-swing over and over again. Yet there's so many things in the levels that are designed to halt your momentum.
        >buggy as hell, can phase through moving platforms while performing peel-outs or just phase through anything because you were going to fast? I've consistently experienced me phasing through the ground and fricking up my combos.
        >bosses are awful, especially the last one.
        >collectibles and NPC sidequests also break the game's momentum, and I know I could just ignore them but I'm a completionist. Game's a complete slog to 100%.

        This is the Mario Sunshine of 3D platformers in the most derogatory way I can say it. Solid movement mechanics held back by lack of focus and disjointed priorities + lots of bugs. It's bordering on good, but on the whole I didn't think it was fun.

        you are moronic considering sunshine is the 2nd best 3d Mario
        this game shits on hat in time

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's exactly what I mean. People who like Sunshine will like Penny. They share pretty similar design flaws and are both exceptionally unpolished but if you are charmed by the world and setting it'll be enough to win you over. Sunshine is a mess of a game and I have a hateboner for that game that only gets bigger with every replay. It's a bottom-tier Mario game in my eyes, and honestly I will never quite understand its appeal but uh you do you.

          Never played Hat in Time, not interested either.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            people who actually like playing video games like it

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Too bad Sunshine isn't designed for people who like video games then.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sunburn fixed it up.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think peoples problem is they're expecting sonic instead of a real platformer.
      they think they should rush through the level because sonic levels are empty and have nothing to do.

      just look at all the morons on steam comparing it to sonic mania when it plays nothing like it. it's more like mario or ape escape.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's definitely more 3D World where you can go quick.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's precisely my issue with it, it simultaneously feels like its designed as mario platformer as a front but in reality wants you to find different shortcuts that circumvent that Mario-esque platforming. The first world is very upfront with this approach, if you follow the platforming by the book it's not that fun. But as soon as you start making your own shortcuts using Penny's toolkit it becomes really satisfying and the first world was at least designed around this. Most of the designed platforming is all setdressing, it's deliberately designed to slow you down but in reality it is in fact intended for you to NOT follow it. If it committed to this and allowed me to do cool shit like in Pizza Tower where I can collect everything and keep my combo until the end I would've liked it more.

        Unfortunately, there's a plethora of level gimmicks that are both mandatory and halt your momentum like the aforementioned palm trees from W2 or the destructible lightbulbs in W7 or 8, can't remember. Going for full completion necessitates you stopping dead in your tracks and doing the Mario-esque stop-&-go shit that the first world actively discouraged. I don't like the game because it doesn't go hard enough to commit to this philosophy and actively working against you with it's dogshit camera angles.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          On top of that, as someone who completed the scrapbook, the game doesn't really do a good job at telling you what you should be aiming for?
          Did you know collecting tons of coins gets you 10K score points which is equal to getting all the collectibles?
          I sure as frick didn't until i had 2 levels left, the game also makes the gay QTE mandatory for 3K points is awful. Palmtrees are the death of momentum in this game and since you can just infinite combo, it makes the score feel less worth it unless you choose to play it fair

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          you would hate bowsers fury, ape escape and jak and daxer and the majority of 3D platformers too.
          because you sometimes have to stop and perform tasks in an area for 10 seconds.

          watch any speed run of them and there are times where they settle in a location for a bit.
          this is not a bad thing but you're a sonic autists who was expecting a completely different genre of game.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            It is a bad thing when your fricking ranking is at stake anon, you know how shit it is to have your score stopped by a fricking palmtree?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              it takes 1 second to slingshot yourself.

              what the frick are you complaining about?
              even sonic games have worse gimmicks than this.
              the wheels you have to spindash in place on, screws, push blocks, seesaws, literal QTEs in later games.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Here's an example of a perfect run ruined by the palmtree. The palmtree will autokill your combo every single time without fail and some levels you simply can't avoid using them. It's awful game design. Most of the time the gimmicks can be salvaged but this is just the fricking worse
                https://streamable.com/ygynkp

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Just skate the water, anon

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know that anon, but thats not the point, sometimes you can't avoid using these fricking things like in world 5 or the secret level with the plamtrees

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            But I love Bowser's Fury, a lot actually. I don't mind slower-paced platformers at all, some of my favorites are exactly that. Penny's issue is that it turns into that after the first world but also still wants to be a momentum-based platformer. Ironically, me getting better at Penny's movement and controls made me dislike the game even more.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think you can route around most/all combo-breaking gimmicks with enough effort which I generally consider a fun challenge, but I do agree the palmtrees are shit.

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    i already 100%'d it and I don't really care about doing time attack mode without any rewards; it's fun but I don't have the autism to keep up with people who find ways to skip parts of the stage

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Beat it and left a negative review.

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks like AI slop, peak soulless

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I kind of hated it at first, and I'm still not sold on the aesthetic, but the second world is pretty cool so far and the controls are starting to click over repeating the first two star levels over and over again.
    How are you expected to get 15000 points in the second star level though?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Go into a roll any time you're about to touch the ground to keep your combo going, works like the manual from Tony Hawk

      Sometimes you'll get this close, remember to practice deep breathing

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Go into a roll any time you're about to touch the ground to keep your combo going, works like the manual from Tony Hawk
        That's exactly what I did and what happened to me.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Grind it out, some of those stars levels like the palm tree one require cheating

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game would kick ass on the 3DS, Evening Star should make a 3DS port.

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    why are you all playing a toddler's game? not even nintendo games look this prepubescent

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Use the "brown and bloom" mod and you're good.

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    is it possible to full combo through every level? because interacting with some items and pieces is fricked and it seems like you're required to stop and drop your combo
    but I also noticed that if you input a swing low to the ground you can land and spin to keep your combo in some situations, which helps a little

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can get around some of the awkward spots in some worlds. For instance if you spin on the popcorn lilypads you keep the combo going. Those fricking palm trees are just shit

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not sure if it's possible for every level; I've been trying to route the Moltobene stages myself but the firewalls and green launchpad things make it very tricky.

      You can also grab items with Around The World if you do it low to the ground; there's two examples in this video

      Just practice, anon. Also don't fall for the dual-stick meme.
      https://streamable.com/lz9i47
      [...]
      Yeah the marketing for this game has been a real shitshow. I found out about it two weeks before it came out because Tyson Hesse happened to repost a 30-second gameplay clip, otherwise I probably never would have heard of it. Shadowdropping amidst Helldivers 2 and fricking FF7 wasn't exactly a strong play either.

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Least frickable female mc
    >Doesn't attract players as much as any other game that focuses on sex appeal (Pseudoregalia, Tamfas, Virul. etc.)
    >Seethes hard when this is true
    Just make the mc cute instead of being a clusterfrick of colors.

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >since Mario Odyssey
    That's not saying much.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Okay, it's the best 3D platformer since Pseudoregalia and Sonic Robo Blast 2 OLDC 2023, how's that

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    because its not on ps4

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    they're going to do an update to fix the shitty visuals and some gameplay tweaks.
    I'm waiting for that. I don't consider it playable at the moment.

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    game is for "speedtroons" who think spending 30 sec building speed on a circular thing due to bad physics and then pause buffering the release to skip the entire level is "A good thing and should not be patched even though it turns the game's long term meta into dog shit"

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mario Odyssey was shit.

    This game looks like ass.
    >The main character is a Black person.
    >The eyes are flipped Sonic abominations for le epic reference
    >No dicky.

    If your game doesn't look good forget about me ever touching it. Not even worth to pirate.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'll alert the media, the world will mourn the loss of your sale in particular

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are penguins the only enemies in the game?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      No there are unique enemies in world 6 that you can kill normally with the yoyo and they all drop 1000 points so you don't have to try for that world.
      Mostly it is just penguins, Fire, green, wheel, nets, blue penguins. Think thats it, there's bigger pink penguins too but they all mostly act the same

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Way too fricking ugly. Fun or not, the game is eye cancer

  34. 3 months ago
    YD

    Already did chud and it was crap, only the musics good.

  35. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >since Mario Odyssey?
    You say like it's that big of a bar to go over; I've unironically enjoyed Kirby and the Forgotten Land more than it.

  36. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Eye-raping artstyle.
    Also I can always just play one of the 6 billions Mario romhacks instead.

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