Pix Jungle Adventures

Genre: Platformer

Players: 1

Game Company Bad Behavior Profile Page: Benjamin Kistler

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Review:

Pix Jungle Adventures is a Platformer released as an asset on the Unity Asset Store in 2018 as Pix Jungle Adventure, brought to mobile devices in 2021 as a low-effort asset flip, and ported to Nintendo Switch a few months later the same year. Players take on linear levels as they walk left to right in a jungle setting.

This game uses pixel art visuals that are decent but not especially noteworthy, along with an annoyingly repetitive song and sound effects you’ll quickly tire of after you hear your guy heave every time he jumps. Trust me when I say you will not be playing this game for the presentation.

As for the gameplay… well, I’ve buried the lead long enough, I think. Pix Jungle Adventures is one of the most shameless Super Mario Bros. clones I have ever seen. Right from the very first level you feel like you’re seeing a shoddy recreation of Super Mario Bros. stage 1-1, and it doesn’t get much better from there.

Actually, it gets a whole lot worse. The physics in this game are terrible. Jumping isn’t fun, stomping enemies isn’t fun, smashing blocks isn’t fun. Mis-time a jump and hit the block above from the side and you’ll actually bounce off of it. Oh, and you’ll learn to avoid turtles and snails because their bouncing shells don’t hurt enemies, do hurt you, move lightning-fast, are indestructible and unstoppable once they start moving, and don’t disappear even after you die and restart from the last checkpoint.

Likewise, the level design is simple and uninspired. While this game doesn’t attempt to be a carbon copy of Mario in all of its level design, what little it does that’s original isn’t especially interesting and it’s frequently repeated.

I’m astounded that anyone would create a Mario clone so brazen and so terrible as Pix Jungle Adventures, but I’m even more astounded that it would be released on the Nintendo Switch. We have plenty of Mario on the Nintendo Switch, why would anyone think we need a terrible Mario knockoff? At the very least this game is functional, but it’s sad that I have to resort to that to find something that isn’t negative to say about this game.

tl;dr – Pix Jungle Adventures is a Platformer that’s quite simply, a shameless Mario clone, but worse than that it’s a terrible Mario clone, with bad physics and shoddy level design. Play any Mario game and you’ll have a better time than this trash.

Grade: D-

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2021 Game Awards:

Runner-Up: Worst Asset Flip, Laziest Copycat

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