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GamesAreSupernice
Jan 3, 2014

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There's lots of games on Steam. Like, tons! And it's inevitable that some will get lost to time. I make a habit of actively seeking out weird games that no one actually likes, though, and I found something I kinda want to share! Pongo is a first-person-platformer, very heavily inspired by Lovely Planet, a much more popular and polished alternative.You might be wondering why you'd want to bother with this game at all, given its competition, and there are at least a couple reasons! Pongo is much less combat-focused than its inspiration, and it adds some interesting new mechanics you'd expect while piloting, well, a Pogo-Stick. It's also super weird-looking!

This LP will hopefully be short and sweet, putting focus on the speed-running aspects of the game design and minimizing commentary. I've also removed the sound effects because they are boring and awful.

World One


World Two


World Three


World Four


World Five


Thanks for watching!


Extra:

Lovely Planet Demo

GamesAreSupernice fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Nov 16, 2015

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GamesAreSupernice
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World Two


In which the stuff I like starts to happen!

GamesAreSupernice
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Lovely Planet Demo


Let's look at Pongo's relative.

GamesAreSupernice
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World Three

GamesAreSupernice
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World Four


Knife windmills.

GamesAreSupernice
Jan 3, 2014

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World Five


That's everything, thank you for watching!

EagerSleeper
Feb 3, 2010

by R. Guyovich
I do want to say thank you let's playing this obscure game. It's great to see unique games like this, even if it's a bit rough, I still like what they did. Just a pogo stick, and a feeling of freedom...

Dooky Dingo
Feb 17, 2011

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Wow, thanks for this.
That was an interesting little trip. The best part, by far, is the soundtrack, which really is pretty :krad:.
The "combat" seems kind of tedious, though. I wonder why they didn't just go for a "mario kill" damage style, where you just jump on things heads, instead of somehow turning your pogo stick into a gun.

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GamesAreSupernice
Jan 3, 2014

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EagerSleeper posted:

I do want to say thank you let's playing this obscure game. It's great to see unique games like this, even if it's a bit rough, I still like what they did. Just a pogo stick, and a feeling of freedom...


Dooky Dingo posted:

Wow, thanks for this.
That was an interesting little trip. The best part, by far, is the soundtrack, which really is pretty :krad:.
The "combat" seems kind of tedious, though. I wonder why they didn't just go for a "mario kill" damage style, where you just jump on things heads, instead of somehow turning your pogo stick into a gun.

Thanks guys. It's not super-polished, but it's definitely not the shovelware people made it out to be.

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