Welcome to our review of Sigi, a fart for Melusina, a platformer with a touch of arcade goodness!
Join Knight Sigi as he runs, jumps, and battles in a flatulent quest to save Melusina, the love of his life !
Take down hordes of goofy enemies and crazy bosses. Earn riches, find long-lost holy artifacts and make your way up to the top of Mount Stinkup! Super tight gameplay and wonderful pixel graphics make Sigi a light-hearted and loving 8-bit adventure to enjoy.
Sigi is a short game and lasts about 1 hour, but 1 hour of pure fun and let me tell you all about it. This game is a well-built and oiled machine when you start playing. It is clear what you need to do from the start, grab as many lives as you can so you can battle the bosses.
There are 3 mechanics, you run, jump and shoot. It is all very simplistic, much like the graphics, but when you look deeper into the game, you will see the background come to life. You will see the well-crafted enemies and the amount of them is just right. This game is just so much more than your everyday short platformer.
It is clear from the start you can go 2 routes when playing this game. Either you go 100% from the start or you decide to speedrun and see if you can finish within 30 minutes! I went for neither, I decided to fully enjoy the game for all it was worth. In my very first attempt, I managed to go all the way to level 20 at what time I failed to beat the boss.
When you restart the game, you can pick which level you want to restart at on the map, a clue on the screen even tells you to hoard lives in earlier levels. I love the simplicity of this game, I really do. Sigi controls very well too. So what is bad about this game?
My only issue with this game is the insisted use of the vibration when playing in handheld. I did not find any way to turn this off and it bugged me like crazy. As some of you know, I enjoy playing at night and that is the issue with this game. The vibration makes so much sound and is so “violent” that is was disturbing and I could not just play it in bed as it would keep my wife from sleeping.
Fix that and it would surely benefit the game. I really think this needs to get fixed in order to score even higher. This price does come at a low low price point, so you might look past this annoyance of mine, but I play when my wife is asleep. This game will not be possible for now…
In conclusion, Sigi plays very well and is a fun game to add to any collection. If the obligatory vibration will not annoy you, this game might be great! For me, it prevents me from fully enjoying a quick game at night and it did lightly decrease my score.
