Welcome to our review of Spitlings, a surprisingly fun game out now on Playstation 4!
Once You Spit, You Can’t Quit!
Spitlings is a chaotic action arcade game for one to four players. It puts you in control of the titular Spitlings: charming rectangular creatures with teeth they can spit at bubbles or use to jump!
Your goal is simple, but hard to achieve: Get rid of all the bubbles bouncing around the screen! Spitlings is a multiplayer game that takes cooperation seriously: If one player fails, everyone restarts the level together.
This makes it a challenging frenzy – perfectly suited for playing with friends both locally and online. Prepare for intense moments and a lot of shouting, as you and your friends will beat level after level by the spit, uhm, skin of your teeth. Always keep an eye on your limited supply while you jump out of the way of the bouncy bubbles and try to split them. Beat the time challenge of each level to unlock its harder b-side version, plus even more playable Spitlings and color themes!
The Spitlings are happy little creatures, living a peaceful life in their skyscraper hometown. Their only problem is the weather: It rains nasty goop that turns into bubbles, entraps the Spitlings, and wrecks their town! There is only one option: They’ll have to split all bubbles and free their friends on the lower floors. Along the way, who knows what they might encounter…
Be sure to check out the party mode that comes with mutators which add another layer of chaos. Want to play upside down? Never stop jumping? Put on a space helmet? We‘ve got you covered! Tune your preferred game modes, mutators, and level pools as needed to customize the experience to your liking. Then invite your friends and start spitting! Your performance will be judged with an array of unique medals…
When I started playing Spitlings, I had just about the lowest possible expectations. Not that the game does not look fun or so, it is just the entire spitting part and the way it was presented and described. Surprisingly enough, this game was really fun and I look forward for my nephews to pass by the house so we can play some coop of this game.
Due to the current pandemic and the small bubble of social contacts allowed in Belgium, I was unable to try out the coop so far, I kind of regret this because the game, as simplistic as it is, it is actually balanced very nicely in single-player mode and I had way more fun than anticipated.
Controls are pretty self-explanatory when shown on screen and just about everything is easy at first but comes to the point that levels are harder and more intense soon enough. I found this hike up the hill to be evenly programmed and it just works.
Mechanically, I have no complaints, not even one. I was pretty quickly down to playing all the way it was intended and I just look forward to keep playing more and more and hopefully soon some coop as well.
In conclusion, while Spitlings may not sound incredibly promising as a game, it sure plays as one of the better. Not the most intense or complicated game, but just fun and entertaining for those times you are looking to take the load off and just have fun!
