Writings of Mass Deduction

A quick review today as I’m fighting off a bit of a cold, but “Slick” is a platformer that has nostalgia written all over it. Looking like something from the “creamed spinach colour” era of Game Boy games, this is one game that’s pushing all the right buttons for those of us who played mobile games of a certain era (even if I was more of an Atari Lynx fan, truth be told).

The game is hard. Quite hard, in fact. I certainly haven’t beat it, but I’m OK with that. I didn’t beat many games of that era anyway, nor was it important for me to do so. Heck, having started on the Intellivision (a system where almost no games even *had* an end), I wasn’t trained to expect an end, or to feel it important to reach it.

A warning though that those who get easily irritated by punishing platformers may find the difficulty level here unappealing early on. However, those who like un-ending challenge may find it here, but even those of us who get a dozen or two levels in and then move on to something else (the game has a lot more levels than that) will still have gotten our 80 Microsoft Points out of it.

Here’s what the developer (Halcyon Softworks) has to say about the game:

“Relive the classic era of platforming. Hop, bop, and journey with Mick Slick through five treacherous worlds and one hundred levels ranging in difficulty from simple to hellish nightmare. Features original tunes by John William Cleary.”