Maw is hungry, go feed him!
Have you seen those Animal Planet shows in witch they show the owner of a snake feeding his little beast with a cute, defenceless mouse? I always say "wtf, that's not fair". Well, "The Maw" is like a marathon session of that on a loop, witch is to say it's pretty awesome.
It's seems like ages since I saw a new XBLA release worth my attention, well, since last summer at least. but things have changed for the good, the Maw is here and he's hungry. And while in the first 5 minutes he may seem like a hungry douche, hes actually the soul of this game, filling the roles of pet, friend and body guard for the player (or Frank, pupil happy allien).
Developer Twisted Pixel made fine use of the 150mb limit, because the looks real good, with nice visual effects and animation (even if on this one occasion they should have added one for when pushing a rock). The audio is decent with a fitting track list for each of the levels it also has some funny sound effects like when Frank says "MAAAWWW" it never got old for me.
The only downside is the length of the experience, I finished it under 5 hours, but it never was boring and it never was frustrating, witch means this is great for the kids. But Twisted Pixel has gone on record to say that future DLC levels will are in the works, so yeah, there is that. It's also worth noting that there is little to no replay value, unless you like achievments, but even then, it's under maybe 8 hours of play.
