Mr Nibbles goes nuts for acorns and hes on a mission to reclaim his stash from the pesky critters who stole them so he can feed his growing family. Delivering some of the best platform gameplay yet and featuring wonderful crisp graphics, Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo is a must have for platform game fans.
There’s a lot to be said about games these days. They’re massive, cost more to make than a presidential not-a-compound and require more input than a feedback form at the post office. But sometimes, the smaller game on the opposite end of the spectrum can be just as effective. Super Little Acorns 3D is one such game.Dese nuts yoThe plot for Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo is dead simple. You’re a squirrel, winter is coming, and you need to stock up on nuts before the coldsnap hits. And hey, it should be easy, amirite?
Nuts are everywhere, convenient platforms are plenty and mother nature is populated with all kinds of murder machines that are looking to hinder seven kinds of hazlenut out of your furry being.And that’s the game really in a nutshell. It’s level after level of collecting acorns and making certain that your family won’t have to resort to cannibalism come winter. But the real appeal of the game, is that the levels themselves are perfect distractions.Fire up another game on the PS Vita or 3DS, and you’re most likely going to need to sink a half hour in to make some decent headway. But with Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo, the action is contained to giblet-sized levels with a time limit. And it’s perfect as a casual game then. Take a quick break, stretch that grey matter, beat a level and get back to work.
This isn’t time-consuming, and decently challenging as well. Navigating through the levels, it’ plays like your standard platformer. That’s a lot of nuts!You can completely brain enemies by jumping on top of their heads.
There are four seasons to conquer, with each season comprising five levels each. Get that year beaten, defeat the boss, grab as many acorns as possible and you’re the champ.And thankfully, the controls are equally simple. While the jump function could use a touch more fine-tuning, it’s still rather decent overall, with the various power-ups give you enough of an Armstrong boost to kick some spider-arse or move quicker. Rope in some chasm-hopping action for extra grappling, some minimalist visuals that pop nicely in 3D and you’ve got a pretty decent game overall.The iOS game has been ported over nicely, kept things simple and is an ideal mid-break platformer that doesn’t demand too much from its players.
And with extra content to keep the levels rolling, it’s also really good value for not so much cash.Last Updated: May 6, 2013.
Super Little Acorns Turbo 3DGenre: Nut GrabbingDeveloper: Team PeskyPublisher: Pixel ToysRelease Date: 4/18/13Mr. Nibbles has a problem. Other woodland creatures have stolen his stash of acorns, and he needs to get those acorns back otherwise his family will starve. Instead of grabbing a shotgun and going all Fallen Down on us, Mr. Nibbles instead scurries out into the forest to gather his acorns back.The game is separated into years and seasons. There are five levels in every season, four seasons in every year and three years to play through. The levels are small areas with acorns scattered throughout to collect.
A few levels will contain different objectives, like the boss races or also gathering up some of Mr. Nibbles delinquent children in addition to the acorns, but the majority of the levels are just to collect the acorns within a time limit. This is done through platform jumping, rope swinging and a couple of power ups in the form of hats within the levels that will grant you additional toughness, speed, or boost jumping. The levels are well designed and work perfect for playing the game in short bursts.That might sound very basic, and the core of the game is fairly straight forward and simple to play. If you are only concerned with gathering the acorns, the game is also pretty easy to complete.
The only thing that can kill you in the game is water, and that doesn’t have a very big presence until later levels. Thankfully the developers have included additional layers to the game to offer more of a challenge to those who may want it. Every level has medals to earn, a fruit medal that can only be gained by collecting the fruit in a level (which will only appear after you’ve collected all of the acorns), a ninja medal for defeating all of the enemies, and a speed medal for collecting all of the acorns within a shorter time limit. Collecting these medals give you additional acorns and the fruit ones unlock fun costumes to play around with.
They also can be very challenging at times, even for a player who has a lot of experience with platform games.Aside from the medals there’s also an additional Challenge mode, and a Turbo mode which can be unlocked, though as far as I can tell all it does is increase movement speed of the main character and enemies. All combined the game has sixty levels which encourage players to replay them for additional acorns and rewards, a challenge mode and Turbo mode. Not a shabby amount of content, which is good because it may take an experienced player only a couple hours to just run through and collect the majority of the acorns in the normal mode.Graphically the game looks nice. All the characters have an intentionally blocky, cartoonish look about them that is thematically consistent with the levels, background and characters. The costumes are fun to mess around with as well, once I unlocked a bunch of them I would switch back and forth from the Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses to an undead/pirate combo.
The squirrel family in tears if you die is adorably sad. With the 3D on it helps make the 2D graphics pop out from the background, except it doesn’t add that much to the game and I preferred to play with it turned off. The audio works well for the game.My understanding is that this was an iOS game first, however the game controls perfectly on the 3DS.
You can either use the joystick of the D-pad for movement, and the B button (or the A button) works for jumping and throwing a grappling line.At $7.99 it’s a little harder to justify the purchase than for a cheap iOS game, however Super Little Acorn Turbo 3D is a fun platformer that is certainly worth checking out if you enjoy platform games.Short Attention Span SummaryIt’s cute, fun, easy to play and offers additional challenge to those seeking it. Definitely recommended.