Quick Look: Cloudberry Kingdom

"THE" Drew

@eccentrix: It was in fact originally meant to be pronounced "own", as it originates during the same period of time as leet-speak, in which replacing the letters in a word with the wrong characters while maintaining the same pronunciation and usage was somehow considered cool. People started pronouncing it "pone" later on to mock the usage, but somehow the latter survived and became unironic.

Really wanna see this on one of this week's shows.

Oh alright, this is that game that Patrick did a dumptruck for back at E3.

@deusoma: I thought it originated from a typo from WoW or something like that.

This game looks a lot floatier than I thought it would be.

Man I wanted to see Bungee mode.

This looks pretty great.

Gameplay looks cool, but graphically this game is hideous.

This looks rad. I wanted to see Bungee mode though

This game is harder than Demon's Souls and therefore is a better game.

I would have loved to watch them mess about with the custom settings a bit more, 4 player with crazy speed and flipping gravity would be impossible to follow but fun to watch!

Really impressed.

That game face on your dude is exactly what someone looks like playing this.

Damn this game looks pretty great.

This hurts my eyes.

Art style reminds me of the Cyanide and Happiness comic a little bit. Seems like a cool game.

Love the Drew cry-outs from the control room, hahah.

Dont get the hate for the art, sure its nothing special, but it doesn't hurt the gameplay and thats the most important part of a game like this.

this looks AWESOME.

I was laughing so hard at the "stretch" antics. Great QL.

I like platformers, but not impossible platformers. I gave up on Meat Boy and N+ fairly quickly. Not sure if this game is just like those, but it looks like it gets pretty tough.

No Drew, you are not a guy, you are a MAN

The jump animation needs work I feel. There's no weight or spring to it.

Maybe it's supposed to sound like "Pony Studios." Undercover Brony op, you know what I'm saying?

really neat concept. and man those cut scenes look GREAT. that's such an interesting style

This looks incredibly stupid. Why would you want to play a game that just picks a set of the same 5 or 6 level elements and just pastes them together randomly when there are so many actually well designed platformers out there. Go play Mario instead.

The game looks brutal especially for the multiplayer. The paper-stop motion cutscenes, or CGI or whatever it is, looked cool, but the frame rate looked freaking slow. Is is suppose to be that way?

Bought it. Played it. Wii U version is bad, maps SNES A to jump, can't change it to B. Plus the reset is on the top triggers which are harder to hit. Plus it locked up in the first 2 minutes of playing it. Wii U, huh guys?

I think it's fundamentally flawed since it's trying to make procedural crappy rom hack levels rather than full on platformer levels like, say, Winky's Walkway. When a procedural platformer can make levels as sensible, solid, distinct and well paced as Winky's Walkway then we'll have a game worth playing for more than an hour while doing something else. Oh, also, the best difficulty is that which is deceptively hard. Not actually hard once you just go and don't stop.

this is baby shit!

@mocbucket62 said:

I thought the frame rate looked cool, like it was stop-motion, but not the highest production value.

How can you play a platformer while doing something else?

I choose to believe that the developers are just huge fans of Parks and Recreation, and they decided to name their studio after Pawnee, Indiana. "Pwn" as a gaming term is just fucking lame.

i think its great they made Karl Pilkington the star of this game. that head is perfectly round and just like a fucking orange

Really appreciating the "all in this together" feel of recent Quick Looks. It's like the Giant Bomb of old.

Sounds like procedurally generated jokes to me.

This game looks like fun but I just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally don't like the art style

Also it would make for a pretty stellar TNT

Disembodied Drew Voice From A Different Room Yelps are awesome.

I don't know what a cloudberry taste like, but I bet it would taste good in a pie.

I'm okay with wheelie, but bouncy and gravity kick my ass.

That animation would have looked good if it wasn't like 10 frames a second.

Caillou's teen years must have been rough.

Pawnee is the fictional town in Indiana that Parks & Rec takes place in. Watch it, it's a funny show.

I think they were going for stop motion by cutting out every other frame, which just makes it look laggy. Close to be being very cool.

Well, we have our next Breaking Bad game.

How can you not?

By something else I mean "Listen to something" such as a podcast or a video or something. Many of the games I play fall into multitaskery, very few I let use my ears. Only those who have something to say. Cloudberry Kingdom is a good game in the sense that it has nothing to say and hours of samey levels you could play. Personally I can't stand any more of it after playing for an hour and half total. I think they done fucked up.

@themasterds: Oh, I thought you meant watching TV or work or something.

this seems really cool.

WOW! Jeff was doing so well at the very start of the quick look, he was destroying it! Oooooosh!

This is a hideous damn game. Especially after the intro cutscene, which actually looks pretty cool.

Really getting a strong Amiga indie title, downloaded-from-an-algo.net-site-circa-1998 vibe off of this, both from the visuals and the music. Especially when they did that custom mode with full friction, slow falls and that stuff, which was pretty much how all Amiga platformers played. Kinda like it, in an odd way.

The art style makes Raskulls look sophisticated. Wanted to to like this, but looks way too cheap in-terms of difficulty, like a bad Mario ROM hack - at least Super Meat Boy felt different enough and had an endearing style to it.

And poor Brad. You barely have an interesting thing to say when you're on the passenger side of a video, let alone an intelligent thing while playing <3