TheDolbyZed

There is genuinely nothing redeeming about this game. The level design is terrible and repetitive. There are moments where you have to absolutely be so pin point accurate and if you mess up you have to go so far back and restart parts of the level. Not just that, but if you are trying to get the medals for the armadillo, there are moments they will place them right next to the end of the level and if you miss, you have to restart the entire mission. I don’t even want to play through these missions ONCE, let alone again just to get something the level designers decided to screw with the players. It is so unbelievably repetitive too that there is no feeling of progression. Playing through the same damned levels three times is just absurd. This is genuinely one of the most frustrating games I have played, and one of the worst I have played. There isn’t even enough goofy failures like in Bubsy 3D that I can at least laugh at. Everything is just uninspired and frustrating. I had more fun with Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties, and that is barely a game period. At least that game made me laughwith its absurdity. Paws On Fire is genuinely one of the worst games I have ever played.

It is borderline unplayable. I got this game for $3, but I still feel ripped off. The gameplay just doesn’t want to function with the player at all. The ninja tends to just fly all over the place while just trying to get from one spot to another. With a game the requires, at times, perfect platforming, you can’t have the character flying all over the place, especially in moments where you cannot see below you. I understand what they were TRYING to do, but they couldn’t get the basic gameplay correct. I bought the game because is was something more light after playing something as emotionally heavy as Clair Obscur, but this game is just frustrating because the controls do not want to function properly. An example is I cannot understand why they decided it was a great idea to have the ninja auto jump off the wall while wall running. The hit detection is also terrible when it comes to combat. You can start a combo, then the ninja just eventually passes through the enemy, so they then start ambushing you. This game is clearly not finished, and I am writing this review years after the game came out, so I doubt they are ever going to fix the problems it has. Even at a discount, I do not recommend it at all, it is just way too frustrating.