![]() ![]() To gain forward momentum you must push down on the right trigger while sliding from side to side, and to work your way up a bamboo climbing frame you must coil yourself around it, tightening and loosening your body with the left trigger as you go. Rather than running and leaping across levels, here you slither across them, contorting yourself across and around obstacles to reach new areas. Snake Pass takes the business of being a snake very seriously. Its lead character Noodle the snake and his companion Doodle the hummingbird are keen students of the syllabus taught at the Rare School of Design in the late 90s, yet it goes beyond placing googly eyes on a couple of animals. Availability: Out now on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.It's similarly in thrall to a sugar-sweet flavour of game once popular at the turn of the century, full of colour and a disarming charm. ![]() We're weeks away from the release of Yooka-Laylee, Playtonic's vibrant throwback to the Banjo-Kazooie series, but before then we have Snake Pass. Here's an adage as dog-eared and cheerily British as its subject you wait ages for a classic platformer in the style of Rare's N64 classics and then two come along in quick succession. Sumo Digital makes its solo debut with an old school platformer that's inventive, charming and a little too frequently infuriating. ![]()
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