Scrap Garden is a very charming game with a very lovable lead character. A robot which otherwise wouldnt have amounted to much in this robot world finds himself as the last hope of saving all life across the world! There's 2 things about this game that i feel sums everything up without going into to much detail. 1# It's not a hard game, but thats okay because that's not what it's about. It does have puzzling moments along the way that are entertaining and i did find myself getting killed a few times by trying to rush a boss encounter. 2# What mate this game for me was the tone and it's pace. It feels like im being read a bed time story leaving me unable ot sleep until i find out if the hero Canny wins. As each world passes my love for Canny grew and grew. He doesnt have a lot to say "Beep boop" but you can tell the kindness in his heart is pure, and that we all could learn a little from him. I clock this game at about 2hours if you're not rushing and I'm more than happy having ...

Basically, this is a cute little game. It's short, it's not too challenging, and it has a nice storyline. First, some drawbacks (for me personally): - I must say the voice acting was a bit iffy -- but it was also entertaining to listen to (perhaps unintentionally). The English grammar was also a bit odd at times, but I imagine that wouldn't bother most people. - The storyline lost me sometimes, though I don't know if that's because of an issue with the way it was written, with a hazy storyline in general, or my own inattentiveness. - The puzzles weren't very challenging, so I would've liked a bit more in that regard (but this level of difficulty would probably be great for kids). - The controls using a mouse and keyboard were a tad frustrating at times but not impossible. - I felt like there was little incentive to collect more red crystals than required, and it was a bit disappointing to see all the crystals I collected get used up in each level even when I had more than neces...

I'm sorry, I have to be brutally honest with this one because it surprises me that it has mostly positive reviews. This game is really bad. I found it unplayable honestly. It's boring, uninspired, unpolished, lacks direction, and I'm not even sure it qualifies as a game because you just kind of slowly hunker around with the most basic tool kit, a bad camera, and very little interaction with the world or it's lack of inhabitants. It isn't generally clear what you're supposed to do next and you keep hoping to find out what's happening and waiting for it to get better. I stopped playing when I got to the sand snake boss thing that popped out of nowhere. There didn't appear to be any way to get him to follow you and just felt random and stupid. I was waiting for this to get better and it showed no signs of it so I stopped wasting my time. It's a shame because the visual style and presentation showed potential, but this feels more like someone's semester end project in game design school,...

When I launched the game the next day, my saved game was gone, and it just re-started from the beginning. WTF!??? Pressing D+E+V in the main menu caused a "Dev mode" text to appear in the lower left corner of the screen, but there does not seem to be any way to select a chapter, or do anything else. This sucks. Also, according to a post in the forums, apparently this game saves your gameplay and settings in a WINDOWS REGISTRY KEY!!! Again, WTF??? What kind of game uses a Windows Registry Key to save your game progress? This is retarded.

Sure, the environments are somewhat pretty, though certainly not impressive, and yes, it's a 3D platformer, which is definitely NOT a new trait to the platformer genre... so how in the world does that mix make Scrap Garden an award-winning indie game!? Nearly every aspect of this game is poorly designed and poorly implemented. Here are my main gripes: Platforming elements consist of double-jumping onto everything with very sloppy controls. The platforming never changes, never gets more difficult, and never even attempts to do anything innovative. Half of the boss fights require you to merely throw rocks at the boss's head. The other half just have you dodge a few attacks until you reach the point where the boss suddenly dies. Bosses are very poorly designed, both in method of beating them and in their clunky animations. Puzzle elements are dreadfully unimaginative. Press switches in the indicated order, move a bunch of items into a box, or match the colored item to the same co...

What I like about this game: The atmospehre, the simple yet fun platforming. What I dislike: At times, the camera can be atrocious. I'm at a spot right now where I'm' not even sure I will continue...:( Would I still recommend? Yes. But a C+

This is a small, but fairly well-polished game. It mixes up the normal action with fun little mini-games, and the puzzles are never very difficult once you figure how to jump on critters. The plot is kind've fun (if silly), and keeps the game from getting stale. Buy it on sale though, it only took me 2.2 hours to finish. (I didn't try very hard to hunt for all the trophies/achievements, and found 1/2 the trophies) My only criticism is that, in some of the side-scrolling sequences, the double-jump is disabled w/o warning - so you might take a hit or two before you compensate. NOTE: It's much, much better than the free version of the game.

Scrap Garden looks like a fun game until you actually play it. It is a simplistic platformer with somewhat cute graphics, however, it lacks in almost every way from a development standpoint. It feels like the sort of thing a student would create for a high school programming class. And get a C+ on. The best word to describe it is "inexplicable". The lore is almost interesting (if heavily flawed), but the implementation of the story line, characterizations, voice acting and general world design all manage to detract from what could have been a cute and interesting game. Nothing feels truly broken, though there are definitely some bad design elements that can add to player frustration. (Failing to educate the player on the simplistic combat system is a big negative.) The game inexplicably switches from somewhat open roaming to suddenly side-scroller or rail-runner at random. The plot is a mishmash, almost as bad as the actual gameplay, with a world that somehow devolves from modern...

Extremely lackluster for a "Mostly Positive"-rated game. The story is promising at first but the boss fights are unimaginative, and in one case, an unforgiving series of quicktime events. The first boss fight is actually buggy--when the worm emerges, sometimes it changes its exit point to be directly under you. That one and a couple others require a frustrating amount of platforming to pick up and throw rocks. The gameplay isn't interesting, and any mechanics or modes aren't explored very much. The enemies and spikes in the early game don't feel like they serve a useful purpose besides annoying the player. The exploration sequences are mainly "door is locked, find key, open door" and the puzzles are mostly "hit every button in this room exactly once to line up the lasers". The mine cart and hillslide sections are not all that fun, and there's even something that looks like a puzzle that you're not even permitted to get wrong. Finally, the voice acting is unemotional--and I don't mean...

A very sweet, well-made game. This may surprise anybody who's read my review of the demo, which I really didn't like. Thankfully most of the annoyances I had with the demo aren't in the full game. So...yay! Gone are the semi-invisible monsters, and the game seems more cohesive and rational, rather than just a random collection of locations strung together. It still has the strange "gate" restriction where you have to get X number of gems to proceed, but if you get X+20 then the extra 20 are also taken from you, so where's the incentive to get more? It's very pretty, handles well, has an interesting story and is very enjoyable. Unfortunately it's very short and can be done in a couple of hours. There is a LOT of potential here and the game could easily be 3 or 4 times longer. There's plenty of room for more story, larger locations and more to do...I'd love to see a sequel or perhaps a level pack or something.