Safety First!

Genre: Puzzle-Platformer / Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

Safety First! is an odd Puzzle-Platformer that has you controlling a humanoid robot, using the control sticks to individually control its left and right feet, with the goal of positioning it so its magical yellow repair liquid spout can target damaged places in a level.

~sigh~ So let’s get this out of the way now. Ha ha, he’s shooting pee out of his penis. Yes, I was a six year old once too. Now, let’s move on.

The game’s presentation is bare-bones. It suffices, but you could show me screens of this game and tell me it was a teenager’s first game in Flash back in the 90s and I’d have probably believed you.

As for the gameplay itself, it’s actually an interesting concept, controlling the limbs of a robot to maneuver it through puzzles, but in practice it has some problems.

Rather than limiting how far you can stretch out the legs, spreading them too far causes them to rip off, resulting in an automatic loss and a screaming sound (wait, wasn’t this supposed to be a robot? Or does it just look like one?). This means that you’re not just fighting the controls in this game, you’re fighting the game punishing you for using those controls. Really frustrating.

As if that wasn’t enough, as soon as you have to “jump”, you see the game’s other flaw. See, while you’re affected by gravity in the game, your ability to move the character’s feet kinda’ operates on a reality of its own. When you move one foot in the air, it moves up, and when you move both legs, they both move up, along with your character’s body, almost as if he was wearing jet boots. The physics don’t really make much sense, and it makes an already difficult-to-control game even more awkward.

There was definitely an interesting concept under the hood of Safety First!, but it feels like this game could have used some more time in development. It’s broken in frustrating ways that make it hard to enjoy.

tl;dr – Safety First! is an odd game where you’re using the two control sticks to control the two legs of a robot to make it pee on electrical cords. It’s an interesting concept, but between the bare bones presentation and the broken gameplay, it feels like a game that needed more time in development.

Grade: D+

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