Platypus

The game is also fashioned entirely from clay and contains strange synthesizer music--wait I'm getting a news flash..."techno" they say, and it is reportedly "simplistic and fun," whatever that means. [Feb 2007, p.44]

What it lacks in options and complexity, it makes up for with good old-fashioned mass destruction action. It's simple enough for anyone to pick up and get into, but it still manages to offer a lot to hardened genre fanatics.

At a bargain bin price, it's hard to completely fault the game's length, but this is really something that probably should have been released as a downloadable PS3/PSP game on the new PlayStation Network Platform. As a brick-and-mortar offering, though, it's just a little too steep.

As basic as you can get for a shooter. What makes Platypus stand out is the graphics that have been wrapped in an layer of clay, this brings out a unique charm and the quality that pushed me up from a [50 to a 60].

As far as side-scrolling shooters go, Platypus for the PSP doesn’t stray from the traditional 2D shooters of yesteryear but it still manages to be forgettable experience hardly worth buying.

There is nothing here that stands out beyond the clay graphics and even those are shrunk to complete irrelevance.

What could have been the modern equivalent to classic bizarre Japanese shooters like Parodius is instead a one-trick pony.