These moves include hovering with a cute balloon, sliding on the floor and climbing ladders. The level designs and themes are constantly changing and you regularly unlock new moves. Unlike so many games in this genre, Ayo never sticks to a single theme (or joke I guess from a clown perspective). There is a huge amount of level design and variety across this game making every stage feel unique and different, from cake worlds, where gingerbread men do press-ups with giant cakes on their back to shark-infested ports.Īfter playing through a few levels what immediately stood out to me was that this was a platformer constantly changing as you progress. Everything’s pretty cute and cuddly, including Ayo himself. The graphics are cute 3D sprites on a 2D plain. A shocking awakening Constantly Evolving and ChangingĪyo at its heart is a 2D platformer. Needless to say, this game’s plot genuinely took me by surprise. Even the resolution at the end of the game, while simple, carries a very important message which I’ll share at the end of the review. This is probably the only platformer I played where I found there was some quite striking character development. Then I encountered a side quest where Ayo dismissed helping a character only to regret this choice and later apologizing and making up to it. In most games, your character just does the side quest, gets the reward and goes on their merry way. As you platform, your way to success is that Ayo encounters many NPCs that need his assistance. What really surprised me though was the heart and the depth of this tale. Initially, the story starts out pretty typical, almost fairytale-like. The story is delivered via voice-acted narration on still screens, much like a storybook. Don’t you worry this game has buzzsaws, big ones! A Story With Surprise DepthĪyo wakes up to discover that his dog is missing and set’s off on an epic quest to find out where he has gone. Most people I know hate clowns, but this might be the game that changes your mind on that. And I am pleased to say Ayo the Clown is one of those. But as I have found with many games I review, some games still might surprise you. When I jumped into Ayo the Clown I was initially predicting another run of the mill platformer (only with a clown this time). I have reviewed quite a lot of platformers this year on Ladies Gamers and I was starting to think this genre was becoming just a tad saturated with similar designs and buzzsaws. Review code provided with many thanks to Plan of Attack Send in the Clown
Developer|Publisher: Cloud M1| Plan of Attack
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