Nicky – The Home Alone Golf Ball

Genre: Platformer

Players: 1, Online Leaderboards

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Review:

Nicky is a physics-based Platformer that replaces the usual jumps the genre usually has as standard with hits to your golf ball character, making you judge the angle and power of your shot.

Visually, this game looks okay, although there’s something about the world within the game that seems oddly generic, and I have the sinking suspicion that the 3D world within the game is made using fair use assets. This feeling is backed up by the game being narrated by a text-to-speech program. This game definitely has the feeling of being pieces together from ramshackle elements.

As for the gameplay itself, while it’s a decent concept, it fails in execution on multiple levels. For one thing, the 3D presentation often makes it difficult to know what’s a solid object and what can be passed through, and at times this even seems arbitrary. What’s more, some of the level design here seems unnecessarily frustrating, and some of it is simply trollish in its design, forcing players through a maddeningly difficult series of timed “jumps” and then bringing them to a trio of pipes they must select, with the wrong one spewing them back out before the prior difficult section.

Yeah, that’s about where I noped out of this game. I can see how this might be of value to the truly masochistic, and to YouTubers looking to get views as they react to this game’s frustrations… or even speed runners looking for a challenge as they try to get through the game with as few “hits” as possible and make it onto the monthly leaderboard. But for the overwhelming majority of players, this game is far too frustrating and amateurish to be worth a consideration.

tl;dr – Nicky is a physics-based Platformer that has you trying to get through the game by hitting its ball-shaped protagonist much like a golf ball rather than jumping. However, the game’s presentation is horribly amateurish, and the gameplay is maddeningly frustrating at at times trollish. Skip this game.

Grade: D

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