Deadly Traps

Review copy provided by developer via Curator Connect If you’re going to make a challenge platformer, can you at least pretend there’s a reason to put your little avatar through hell? There’s no plot to Deadly Traps so I don’t know why my glowing shadow person has to scoot through 30 levels of Insanely Twisted Garbage World, and a little story might have given me the motivation to get through more than 5 of them. It...

15 found this helpful, 2018-05-19

It's a hardcore platformer that gets its difficulty from the poor controls and large and misrepresented hitboxes more than the actual level design. The level design is nice for a good amount of the levels and it's forgiving with checkpoints, but the poor controls and certain hitboxes on traps ruin it for me, since those are 2 of the main components of a platformer.

3 found this helpful, 2019-12-13

Deadly traps is a hardcore platformer in the vein of games like super meat boy. There are 3 worlds with 10 levels each, each level is one screen and filled with lasers, cannons, saws, spikes, and other various things that kill you. Controls are simple and very responsive, you can move left and right and jump/double jump. Your character moves at the perfect speed, fast enough to be able to get through the traps,...

7 found this helpful, 2017-09-04