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Jump King (2019)

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For this week's Mobile Friday i tried Jump King from developers #Nexile, on my #iPhone 14 Pro.

I went into this video not knowing that Jump King was an existing game on other platforms, but i called it early on that it felt like this was a port of a game. i guessed that it was a port of a game designed for a bigger screen like a folding phone and i was kinda right as it was a PC game first. it's a little weird how the game doesn't take full advantage of the phone's screen and doesn't have any options to let the player move the controls around either. the options are extremely basic and are only for the sounds, there's no language options, no accessibility options, and no graphical options.

The music might be broken in this game, or this version of it. i'm unsure so if you know if what i experienced was normal, please let me know in the comments. it's unfortunate that it was so obvious when the music looped as it got quite frustrating. couple this with some grating sound effects, and i honestly wanted to turn all the sounds off but i couldn't because i was recording a video. this has never happened before. then there was the odd sound that came out of a bird, my first thought was that it was a low quality burp! there was also the incident when i got music when i reached a stage and then never got it again.

another complaint i had throughout was the lack of feeling from the game. it never used my phones vibration, nor did it give any visual clues other than a button was being pressed. this lack of feedback made it tough to learn how to play the game. Jump King does not have a tutorial or on screen prompts, it doesn't have a section designed to teach us mechanics either. we're dropped straight into the world and that's it. not having any sort of feedback gave me the impression that the game is inconsistent, maybe even a little random. Then there was the moment when an old guy said i could glance and look up, but of course they never said how to do so and i never worked out how to do it.

Jump King may have a retro aesthetic about it, but on mobile it's design just feels old and not in a good way. maybe this sort of community exists on other platforms, but here on mobile it feels like Jump King was just a basic port with little to no thought about taking advantage of the platform it's on. i can't recommend it as i can't think of any group that it's for on mobile.

Version 1.0.10 Played.

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