Super One More Jump

Genre: Auto-Runner

Players: 1-2 Competitive (Local Split-Screen), 1-4 Co-Op (Local)

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Review:

Super One More Jump is an Auto-Runner that is the sequel to the iOS game One More Jump. This game takes a pretty straightforward one-button Auto-Runner formula and adds a bit of a gravity-defying twist in that your jumps automatically re-orient to gravitate towards the platform closest to you.

The presentation here is pretty simple. So simple, in fact, that players can play the game with one of numerous unlockable skins, largely pixel art skins with various themes from sci-fi to medieval to cutesy kitties. None of these is especially noteworthy or memorable, but they all function well enough. And no matter which of these you use, you’ll be playing with the same videogamey sound effects and decent but forgettable chiptune soundtrack.

For the gameplay, at its best the gravity-defying nature of this game can make its levels play a bit like a puzzle, getting you to try to think through where the level will take you next. However, often it becomes a simple endurance test of simply being able to press the button at just the right time. On occasion, you’ll even run into surprise elements that will mess you up and force you to restart the level, making it not even about skill, but about remembering how the level changes as you go. It’s frustrating and a bit disappointing that the decent core premise so often just devolves into the frustration of simply trying to survive the crap the game throws at you.

At the very least, there are some good options here, though many have to be unlocked. An endless mode that supports two players competitively can make for a decent test of platforming skill against a friend, and a co-op mode that has players trading off whose turn it is to press the jump button is a nice includion.

In the end, Super One More Jump ends up being a better than average Auto-Runner, but given that it had some strong elements in place to be even better, it’s kinda’ disappointing that it settles for that. There’s a healthy amount of options here, and some good potential for more puzzle-oriented gameplay, but mostly this just ends up being a challenging endurance test that many players will just find frustrating. You know, like most games in the genre.

tl;dr – Super One More Jump is an Auto-Runner that incorporates a shifting gravity element that has players trying to anticipate how their jumps will re-orient as they pass between and around platforms. There’s some good puzzle potential here, and a healthy amount of options, but mostly this just ends up playing like any other challenging endurance-focused Auto-Runner, with a gimmick that doesn’t shake things up nearly as much as you might hope.

Grade: B-

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