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The earliest stages are based around Middle Eastern locations and cultures.

It’s great to see there was so much effort in creating an expansive game, but even on easy difficulty it is a pain to see through to completion.Įvery section of stages is themed in some way. After that, you’re thrown off into the big leagues to hopefully survive through a ton of stages. Putty Squad doesn’t really do that beyond a few easy tutorial sequences. There’s something to be said for easing the player into more difficult situations. Most platformer games aren’t nearly as frantic right from the get go, and maybe with good reason. As such, running, jumping, and floating are basically a constant process. There’s practically no spot to rest as constantly respawning birds make it their mission to fly at the exact height you find yourself perched at. Creatures bustle about on the ground, in the air, and basically anywhere else. Every stage of Putty Squad is filled to the brim with enemies. This is a lot more than most platforming heroes can do, and there’s actually good reason for it. Special attacks include arrows, bombs, electric fists, and even a rocket that rains bombs down on enemies. The putty can squish down to collect items, inflate and float around, and fight with fists or a variety of other weapons. It’s a very simple concept and is complicated (perhaps unnecessarily) by a host of special abilities.

Not only are you a blob, but you must also collect the other blobs that are trapped on a wide variety of stages. One thing’s for sure – it definitely hearkens back to an earlier age of platforming.Īs the name implies, you play as a round bit of putty in Putty Squad. The game’s finally here on PS4, PS3, and Vita. That is, until a few years ago when the developer announced a remake would be coming to Sony and mobile platformers. System 3 released Putty Squad on SNES in 1994 and that seemed to be it for the blue putty hero. Putty Squad is a name that, until now, has mostly been forgotten.