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Rescue: The Beagles

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Game Description

Rescue: The Beagles is a fast-paced platform game where the goal is to rescue beagles from being sent to an animal testing facility. Your character can move back and forth between three different levels, using rope and parachutes to climb up and fall down larger distances, respectively. Owls can also be collected to be thrown at the various enemies you come across, all employees of CutLab, the testing facility.

R:tB was developed for the TIGSource Procedural Generation Competition, which it won.

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owls winner puppies female-lead competition  
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June 2008
nenad
Platformer
Windows
Singleplayer
Custom
English
Freeware
Related Links: Homepage, TIGForums Thread
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Windows: rar 10.8 MB

Reviews

5 of 5 people found
this review helpful.


Neverhood 5 Shiny Beagles
As I tried to formulate the first sentence of this review, I got a hideous urge to rescue a few more beagles. Now, half an hour later, I’m back.

What strikes me the most is how much polish this game has. A whole lot of thought has gone into every single detail, and it shows: There’s basically no flaws at all, awing me with it’s perfected simplicity.

Small, small things, like how the number of remaining ropes/chutes pop up over your characters head when you use them, or how you can pick up dogs or things in other layers if they are close. Or how puppies are worth more than adult dogs. I mean, they’re cuter, right!

All these mechanics works in wonderful symphony, leaving you with really smooth gameplay that you just can’t help coming back to.

The addition of the level end bonuses is just a monocle on the owl: offering a lovely sense of risk for reward. Should I jump the slime, run to the end of the screen to no-rope jump from that hill, and run back to try and catch the beagle before it goes off screen? Or just screw the Skyline bonus and rope my way up there?

If I had to pick on something, it would be that the landscape generator sometimes produces holes that make it downright impossible to get the Skyline Flow bonus. But those are rare, and hardly a problem except for perfectionist misfits like me.

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