Bricky To Me is a puzzle-platformer that brings the idea of randomly arranged rooms to get through. Join the knight and a mysterious cat in a castle where the whole scenario is dynamically modified, creating rooms with incredible challenges to overcome. The game presents a simple but punishing gameplay.
The game has been rated 2.5/5 by TheXboxHub. It’s an experimental game that tries to append simple platforming to a dungeon run. While it has nice touches, it doesn’t really work as there’s no getting round the lack of content and variety in Bricky To Me, which makes it an unconvincing game on its own.
The game puts you on a Puzzle Platform full of dynamically arranged rooms with a random path to the confrontation with “Space Mania”. You play as a dwarf who is armed with a boomerang and he’s able to shrink himself with potions. He’s helped by a cosmic cat who can teleport him to other sides of the arena, and the bosses aren’t really bosses, they are games of Space Invaders.
The controls are on point and the general set up is on point. But everything else is so extremely limited that even the £3.29 price tag starts to sound expensive.
There’s just the jump and a boomerang as default abilities, but the jump does everything you would hope to, as you pull off reasonably precise jumps across spikes and onto moving platforms. The boomerang does that fun Kratos thing where you can move after you’ve thrown it, and it will arc towards you, slicing and dicing everything as it does so. It’s a nifty, versatile weapon, even if it’s not overly imaginative.
There’s an asterisk here, as one of the game’s two enemies (yes, two – and we’ll get to that in a moment) is a bat, who oscillates towards you and is surprisingly hard to hit with a boomerang, since you have to wait for it to return if you miss. But hitting the bat is vital, as it drops essential fish that you need to sell for coins (yep, pulled out of the hat again), and getting hit by them is virtually a death sentence.
All of the above meant that we were immediately endeared to Bricky To Me. Sure, it doesn’t look or sound particularly great (the home decor was clearly done by a builder who was looking to offload some terracotta bricks), but the wide-eyed dwarf and his cute cat, alongside the vague, amorphous blobs that are a common enemy, are all fun enough.
In conclusion, Bricky To Me XBOX is an experimental game that tries to append simple platforming to a dungeon run. While it has nice touches such as on-point controls and general set up, it doesn’t really work as there’s no getting round the lack of content and variety in Bricky To Me which makes it an unconvincing game on its own.
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