Game:

Putty Squad (1994)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 2:36:52

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Putty Squad, developed by System3 and Westcoast Software. Published by System3 Software Ltd. in 2014

"PUTTY IS BACK! - Bounce, squidge and stretch your way to victory as you help Putty save his kidnapped friends from certain death! Over 50 levels of stretchy mayhem to overcome!"

Putty Squad has an interesting history. Originally developed for the Amiga 1200, PC, Snes and megadrive, only the snes version saw a release in 1994. The Megadrive version was never finished and exists today as a protype release. The Amiga version was locked away in a vault for decades and freely released by System3 later in 2013. I guess System3 then had the eureka moment of developing a version of the game for all the current consoles of the time and here we have the 3DS game.

The game has been recorded in Citra and any bugs noticed may be the emulation or could actually be genuine game bugs. There is some strange tearing in the background of some levels and the map screen has some issues. World 7 secret levels seem to be in the wrong place on the map. When using uncle Teds to distract the enemy, the game music no longer plays after teds music runs out.

I play through the main Marathon mode which is the natural progression of the game showing all levels including secret levels to the end of the game. I also collect all stars and stickers along the way. All the remaining stickers require playing through challenge mode which would require multiple plays of each level with the aim of meeting specific requirements. I show those at the end of the video.

After playing earlier releases of the game I find this one quite difficult. Every button has an action assigned and I'm often hitting the wrong function. Also special weapons require using the touch screen to activate them which requires me taking my hand off the main controls which can cause me some problems when the enemies are close by.

00:00:00 Tutorial
00:05:25 World 1
00:20:55 World 2
00:35:33 World 3
00:51:42 World 4
01:07:40 World 5
01:22:32 World 6
01:42:00 World 7
02:08:19 World 8
02:22:11 World 9

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