Bubblegum monstrosities shamble about like rotting zombies through every level, and our green hero double jumps and slides on everything from bags of potato chips at a concession stand to broken aquariums in what must be the world's messiest (and deadliest) girl's bedroom. If necessary, you can pop them off and scuttle through narrow passages at your normal size, and you can subject foes to agonizing deaths ranging from melting to impalement for points at the end of each level.ĭespite such bouts of dark humor, nothing casts a shadow over World Gone Sour quite like Little Big Planet, which manifests itself in everything from the level design and frequent checkpoints to the competitive leaderboards and monsters cobbled together from everyday junk. If you get enough candies, they can merge with the hero to increase his size, strength and hit points three times over his normal, tiny self, which allows for charged attacks and crippling slams that destroy obstacles beneath his gummy feet. Other lost candies, however, join up and follow the green kid, readily sacrificing themselves when he needs to toss a few of them to flip a light switch or knock out a battery monster.
Events like these traumatize some of the green kid's fellow Sour Patch Kids, and they take out their aggression as bosses throughout the game's nine lengthy levels.
The hero of this quest for gastric nirvana is a lone green Sour Patch Kid, whose moment of bliss ends when some schmuck trips at a movie theater and scatters his candy across the floor. Although a few of its gameplay elements might leave behind a bitter taste, World Gone Sour manages to hit a sweet spot that most "advergames" seem to miss.įor a game about candy, World Gone Sour sure caters to grown-ups. Surprisingly, Playbrains proves that it's possible to pull a satisfying platformer out of such a concept. These globs of sugar, specked with crumbs and cat fur though they may be, apparently want nothing more than to fight their way back into your mouth and sacrifice themselves on the altar of your molars. If you've ever wondered what happens to those candies that disappear between your couch cushions, World Gone Sour has an answer, particularly if those candies happen to be Sour Patch Kids.