Concursion

The game has some really nice ideas with the genre mixing interspaced throughout the levels but it's just not much fun after the novelty wears off and you're left with the boring and trite gameplay for each section. I did like that gameplay mechanic where you went into a different gameplay mode to get a boost to get to a place you couldn't get otherwise in another mode. That was ingenious. If you can get it cheap or in a bundle, check it out.

[b]TL;DR: 4.5/5 Would recommend, Fun time waster for a cheap price, great music and gameplay, just look past the artwork.[/b] I was looking for a new time-waster and although I normally purchase a cheap SHMUP or side-scroller from the PSN but I saw a couple interesting reviews for Concursion and figured I would give it a try. I knew from the advertising material that it started as a bit of a Mario-Clone but it pretty quickly becomes a combination of the other games highlighted in the gameplay video. I was immediately reminded of some older Flash games that I had played years ago but the difference was I actually enjoyed playing Concursion for more than a couple minutes. I have been replaying the levels after completion to go back for the time achievement and the extra Gem Shards that are hidden or hard to pick up, so I can effectively get two/three times the playtime for my money! (So far I have completely wasted my Friday night and Saturday, ‘cause that’s cool) I have found m...

This game is absolutely amazing and one of the best I have played in a long time. The premise of the game is that the universe is being torn apart, and there are rifts all over each level which, as you enter them, lead to a different world, which turns you into a different hero with totally different powers. The 5 characters you play as are a knight, which is very similar to super mario, a ninja, complete with a sword, double jumps and wall hangs, a space ship which leads way into shmup style levels, a little bull thing that plays like pac-man and an astronaut who has a jetpack but no means of attack. Individually all 5 styles are handled well, the controls for each character are very tight and I never once blamed a death on the controls. Each character, on its own, is very fun to play, but where this game shines is the way the characters are integrated into one anothers level. You may think it is just a gimmick, but the reality is that the way the genres cross each other is brill...

While it claims to be a cross-genre playformer, this game really amounts to a collection of mechanics and mini-games that have been done better elsewhere, relying on a sense of nostalgia and homage instead of making a solid game, shoddy animation and general brokenness add to the mess that this game quickly turns out to be. 3/10

Really fun "mashup" game combining several game types. Great soundtrack! Can't wait to get through all the levels.

Awesome take on the traditional side scrollers we all grew up playing. Less focused on trying to save some far off world, and more on fun gameplay. Definitely Recommend picking it up

Hey everyone and this is my review about the game! This is a Platform game. [h1]Interface/Menu/Settings[/h1] You can play with a controller. There is fullscreen and windowed mode. There is a Large, Medium or small window size available. There is a Music volume slidebar available. There is a sound volume slidebar available. [h1]About the game.[/h1] You play at one moment with a ninja, other moment you are playing Pac man, other moment you play in space with a spaceship, other moment you are just playing a platform game, other moment you are an astronaut with a jetpack. it gives the player alot of variety though. al though you are forced to do this in order to beat it. It's a bit like Super mario world, you walk over a map and you have to beat a level in order to move on. Game is quite funny! Music is pretty good! The music changes too if you change from character. There are also collectable shards. There is normal and hardcore mode. [h1]Other things.[/h1] It has a bit of Mario...

Devotees of retro and neoretro are no strangers to the mashup: a type of game collection that offers "lite" versions of various game types (SHMUP, platformer, etc.), selectable from a central hub. [i]Concursion[/i], however, takes the concept of "mashup" to a whole new insane sphere by jamming as many as five disparate genres into the [i]same[/i] field! There is no neat pick-and-choose here; you must actively guide the behorned Questy Guy from one sparkle-bordered genre zone to the next, and while he retains his momentum in the crossing, his appearance and moveset alter completely -- as do the characteristics of any enemy that happens to drift over! Sometimes these shifts occur with such dizzying speed that it almost seems like madness at first, but a meticulous method always becomes evident before long. The diamond brilliance of the level design shines through this controlled chaos, which is present in endlessly inventive configurations of genre zones and in the occasional wildcar...

Terrible game.

When the developers describe Concursion as different, they are right! I love that you can flip back and forth between the different worlds and have completely different styles of game play. I have Part One up for the Let's Play: http://youtu.be/1YHalxryYHM