Mon Amour

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1, Online Leaderboards

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Review:

Mon Amour, released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2021, is an Arcade-style game in the vein of games like Flappy Bird. Players take the role of a mustachioed man (who looks quite a bit like the protagonist of Onion Games’ Dandy Dungeon) whose wedding is interrupted by attacking witches, and who must now… float through the air to kiss a series of floating women? Yeah, the plot doesn’t make much sense, but this isn’t really about plot so much as a mood, and that mood is apparently loooove. Too bad for the fiancee, though – she has been transformed into a mouse and seemingly been forgotten by her would-be beau.

The presentation here is nice, even if it’s very silly and nonsensical. Characters are represented by pixel art 2D visuals, flying through backgrounds that look like bright colorful watercolor paintings overlaid with more pixel art. This is backed by a peppy soundtrack with jazzy vocals that fits the game’s love-obsessed (and vaguely French) theme, as well as gobbledygook voice effects for characters that help enhance the game’s silly nature.

The gameplay here is simple – your character will slowly move from left to right, and you must hold down A to lift him up, or release it to let him drop down, avoiding buildings and obstacles on his way to a kiss with one of the ladies on the right side. These girls follow along behind him in subsequent levels, with each acting as an extra life when you do collide with something. Buildings gradually rise, but players can push them back by moving into pickups like fruit that appear along the way. And every now and then the game shakes things up with various odd stages with new enemies to avoid, like jumping sharks or overly-aggressive cherubim.

Unfortunately, Mon Amour’s physics are extremely unforgiving, requiring split-second timing on behalf of the player to navigate with any sort of accuracy. Players will likely die multiple times on the first stage before even learning how to play the game properly, and even then, it will continue to be a struggle with the controls throughout your time playing the game.

Because of this, Mon Amour just isn’t very fun to play, even if it’s an amusing game with a great presentation. It does have that “just one more run” quality that you look for in a good Arcade-style game, but that only lasts until you get fed up with the game. For most, this won’t be terribly long.

tl;dr – Mon Amour is an Arcade-style game like Flappy Bird that has players floating across the screen to kiss girls. The presentation here is great – lighthearted and funny. Unfortunately, the gameplay is far too unforgiving, and that saps the fun out of the experience.

Grade: C

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