If you've got a friend nearby, sit down and collect things together. One great new feature of Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds is the inclusion of a two player cooperative mode. Comparing Back for Seconds to the original Tasty Planet, you'll find quicker, more dynamic gameplay with plenty of new things to call it a sequel. The game shares a similar "collect small things" design concept, but really its charm (and 2D point of view) are all its own. All of this takes place across 50 or so levels, some of which are unlocked as you play, and four different gameplay modes.Īnalysis: It wouldn't be possible to discuss Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds without mentioning Katamari Damacy or The Wonderful End of the World. You'll also find special stages that task you with escaping mazes or collecting a number of one kind of item. There are six time periods to work through, each with its own unique things to eat, from the smallest piece of candy or scarab beetle to the largest dinosaur or satellite orbiting the Earth. The time traveling mechanism allows for a nice variety of settings in Tasty Planet 2. It's extremely satisfying to fight with obstacles and run from enemies only to turn around and gobble them up a few moments later.
A handy arrow points to the closest, largest object you can collect, and whenever an item is small enough to be eaten, you'll see a set of small icons surrounding it. Once you reach a certain diameter, the camera bobs upward and gives you a wider view. Your size is constantly monitored at the top left corner of the screen. No jumping, no climbing, just moving and devouring. This all happens with a simple interface that uses either the mouse or keys for movement.
With each item nommed, the goo grows larger, allowing it to pick up even bigger items in its never-ending quest to keep eating. Like some human babies you might know, the protagonist in Tasty Planet will eat anything smaller than it is, gobbling up objects without pausing to chew. As you can guess, this is a dangerous thing to let loose on the Earth, but give it a time machine and all of the past and future could be in quite a pickle. Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds from Dingo Games plays on this compulsion and puts you in control of a blob of gray goo that can eat anything smaller than it is. We're not so much interesting in gathering buildings as we are looking at them, but if buildings were pint-sized, you can bet they'd fill our pockets like lint-covered jellybeans. A few special two-player levels require cooperation, however.For some reason, everyone loves collecting things that are smaller than they are. One of the game's modes, appropriately called the Timed Mode, introduces a time limit and also grants medals based on the amount of time required for the completion of each level, none of which exists in Casual Mode.Ī number of levels with special goals also exist, such as requiring the goo to collect a certain number of a particular item, or to navigate a maze and find food small enough to eat until it can chew its way through the maze itself to the next section, or to use larger items to protect itself from attacks, or to defend one of the sides involved in a conflict, or even to go against enemy grey goos.Ī new addition compared to the first Tasty Planet is the two-player mode, where each player controls their own goo, allowing for either cooperation or competition through all levels of the game. "Food" respawns, however, so it will never be impossible to find enough to reach the required size to finish the level. Each item eaten has its name listed.Įarly levels are simple, but later the hungry goo has hostile creatures to avoid, each hit causing it to decrease in size. Through all of these periods, it will do what it does best: eat anything smaller than itself and grow as a result, eventually reaching the size of mountains, planets or even entire galaxies, the camera zooming to reflect the changes in scale.
At that point, it is sent into the distant past, more specifically the Late Cretaceous period, and later its journey continues through Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Feudal Japan and even the distant future. The story of Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds begins with the tiny ball of grey goo being fed in the laboratory and growing in size until it can consume the time machine.
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