‘Massive Hops’ Places a Frog’s Tongue to Work With 3D Platforming

Massive Hops sees a frog making inventive use of their sticky tongue (and a few neat talents) to platforming by way of a captivating cartoon world.

Clearly impressed by Mario Odyssey, Massive Hops lets you discover colourful and vibrant levels crammed with interactable puzzles and characters you can assist. Primarily utilizing your tongue, you’ll be able to swing, full puzzles, and work together with numerous objects – it’s quite a lot of enjoyable.

Massive Hops has quite a lot of parkour all through it. It’s at all times clear the place you ought to be going subsequent (typically by being guided by different characters as you’re serving to them with quests), however the way you get there’s as much as you. Utilizing your tongue and numerous devices or consumables you discover, you’ll be able to find yourself discovering your individual enjoyable manner throughout completely different areas. The world itself feels huge with a lot to find and discover.

The mobility choices within the recreation, from swinging to climbing up partitions, makes the motion enjoyable and quick. You may truly end up rushing round when you get use to all of the methods you may get round! I didn’t get far sufficient to start out utilizing the devices you can get, however throwing gadgets onto partitions to then use them to get increased looks like a enjoyable thought! I did get to choose mushrooms and throw them, creating trampolines to get additional up cliffs as my climbing was fairly restricted. These completely different gadgets made me suppose in a different way concerning the space I used to be making an attempt to get to.

After I performed a few of Massive Hops at Day of the Devs, I actually loved the texture of the colourful world, climbing up towers and leaping off them to assist the smaller frog that was exploring round with me. It’s only a joyous recreation you can sink hours into exploring as you discover an increasing number of to work together with.

Massive Hops is at present in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

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Jupiter Hadley

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