Alien Spidy is a cute little guy. His butt's shiny and he's got his cute little poses through the game. Don't let that fool you though. He's still a freaking spider and as such, he can be a bit of an asshole. The idea is simple enough; get through the levels using your jumps and webs, slinging yourself from tree's and such, all while collecting little glowing orbs. There's obstacles to avoid, such as rolling rocks, thorns, mushrooms and such. Like I said, puzzle platformer 101. All in all, this game play's not too shabby! It can be fun and it is most definitely challenging! It's got some big problems though. Granted, these problems may just be my skill, maybe it's my third party xbox controller. The controls are kinda of tough from time to time. The main mechanic of this game is shooting your webs in mid air to attach to tiny platforms, using your momentum to throw you across gaps and obstacles. Your webs do not always shootin the angle you want them to though. There'...

This game is a nice concept marred by awful execution and unrealistic expectations of the player. The way to score points requires you to be absolutely perfect most of the time if you want to get more than even 1 star, much less 5. The web-physics are also a little buggy, every time the web connect the spidy jitters around weirdly and loses momentum for no reason. This is a game simply not worth trying to finish, and that such a small percentage of players has even cleared the first world (which I did manage) should be a red flag that it's not just difficult, but flat-out broken.

I purchased this game thinking it would be fun. I was right... for roughly ten minutes. While the tutorial is excellent in helping you understand the basics of the game, the programmers obviously decided to make this thing WAY too difficult WAY too soon out of the starting gate. Granted, I'm playing on a keyboard, and i'm not used to playing platformer games like this on a keyboard. So OBVIOUSLY, i'm a bit out of my depth here. However, My big hang-up on this game is, without a dout, THE DIFFICULTY. The core design of a good game, say for instance, Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog, is the start the gamme off blaringly easy so players have a decent time getting the hang of the controls and getting used to the gameplay mechanics. Graphics, sound and the little moves the spider character put on for the end-of-level theatrics is acceptable, and I could get by with those alone in a normal game. But here, the difficulty comes NOT from a decent, well-paced challenge, but from the game for...

I came into Alien Spidy expecting a sort a Metroid type game. I was slightly disappointed by the singular level format, but i could deal with it. I had trouble with the web mechanic because every time I decide to let go, i seem to lose my momentum. The biggest sin this game commits is having to go back to get a certain amount of stars to move on to later levels. To get a decent amount of stars, you need to be almost perfect. If you wanted a game like this, than you would do much better to get Super Meat Boy.

This is beautiful game with nice graphics, a great art style and very catchy music. Unfortunately it suffers from bad input lag which kind of zaps the fun out of platforming. The controls feel kind of laggy.

Absolute garbage platformer. The controls are awful, the physics are floaty and imprecise and there is noticeable input lag, when the buttons respond at all. Avoid under all circumstances.

The score system is awful. Instead of just grading you for how fast you're going or if you did a cool thing or not, it expects you to utterly follow the score bubbles 100% of the time. In a physics-based platformer. I'd let this slide, had the game not required a certain amount of score to leave the first world. It didn't really feel like the level design was getting exceedingly fun yet either. On top of that, there's a bunch of imperfections that contribute to the frustration. The visuals are nice, but the soundtrack and SFX are kinda grating. Most importantly though, while the physics are *alright* for a Unity game, occasionally the ground won't be beneath you when you try to jump, or you'll have trouble with the swinging physics. When you die, sometimes the obstacles will desynch, or the camera will fail to catch back up to you, and also generally make it hard to consistently aim with the mouse (unless you use a controller, in which case good luck doing this with no crosshairs). ...

A very nice and fairly difficult platformer. I love platformers with grappling line/swinging gimmicks and that is basically what this is all about. The jumping is a little bit floaty but you will be thankful for that because it will give you time to aim your landing better. You have to be incredibly precise with both your jumpinng and swinging to succeed. The game is score-attack based. It is totally possible to clear stages but take so many times and miss so many point icons that you are left with an absolutely embarrassing mediocre score. That's prettymuch where I am with it right now. If you are the type of player that enjoys games like Dustforce or Super Meat Boy where you practice and get better and better until you can clear levels in one fluid motion I would recommend it. It is a game for perfectionists and I'm not sure I will have the patience to clear all of it. What I have played is fun.

Despite its gorgeous visuals and adorable art style, stubborn controls and an atrocious web shooting mechanic make Alien Spidy the most frustrating game of 2014, and not in a good way.

this is a fun game. it is filled with challenges and fun. the colors are great bright and it can be set for the new players so they can learn all the keys and timeings. so if you like side scrollers with a spin grab up on this one for sure!