Crash Puzzle Hammer-San

Genre: Puzzle-Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Crash Puzzle Hammer-San is a Puzzle-Platformer released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game you play a hammer-wielding protagonist who in each stage must destroy every green block and green enemy and then safely reach the stage’s exit.

The presentation here is not great. The game’s cartoony 2D visuals have a blocky look but otherwise work more or less. The sound, however, is a different story. The synthesized music here is awful, and the sound effects, particularly the sound for falling, are so ear-piercingly bad that you’ll want to mute the game.

Beyond that, you have a pretty standard Puzzle-Platformer minus the jumping. You can push blocks, lift yourself up one-block inclines, attack blocks and enemies (save for indestructible purple ones), and must use your limited skills to safely get past hazards and enemies, destroy the green blocks and enemies, and exit, easy-peasy.

While Crash Puzzle Hammer-San is mostly competently-made, there’s not really anything particularly interesting or extraordinary about it, and the terrible sound works as a point against it. There are worse ways to spend ten bucks, but there are far better ways too. I suggest you look for one of those better ways.

tl;dr – Crash Puzzle Hammer-San is a Puzzle-Platformer where you play a character armed with a hammer who must destroy every green block and enemy in a stage before getting to the exit. There’s nothing especially good or bad about this game (except the terrible sound that you’ll want to mute), and while it more or less works, there’s not really any reason for me to recommend it. I suggest getting a better game instead.

Grade: C

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