Lint is a challenging, frustrating platformer - Time-Waster

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As a platformer, Lint is fairly thin on the graphics. The protagonist is a tiny ball that rolls around and the whole thing works as one huge level, which you traverse screen-by-screen.
There is often more than one way to cross a given screen. Navigation is great; it's very fast and fluid. You can jump high, double jump (i.e., jump again when you're already airborne for an added boost), and scale walls easily. The controls are quite intuitive and easy to master, which makes the game more enjoyable.
The tricky part in Lint is the timing. It's quite simple at the start, but pretty soon, you need to accurately time your jumps. In the screenshot, that dark shape on the right is a hammer that pounds down repeatedly, and it will kill you if you touch it (even if you just glance it from the side while jumping). You need to jump down at exactly the right instant. If you die you'll start again at the left side of the screen -- so you need to spend a moment to get to where the hammer is. It's can be quite frustrating, indeed.
Another nice thing about this game is that you get endless lives, and respawning is instant (it doesn't pause even for a second, you just instantly reappear after you die). Give Lint a shot, but prepare to be frustrated!Lint is a challenging, frustrating platformer - Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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