The animal characters already have their fun dancing animations, but each animal has their own distinct cries and sound effects. It is the music and sound design that ultimately won me over artistically-it’s where Ultimate Chicken Horse‘s attempts at charm are most successful.
#Chkn the game review update
The latest update of the game that came with the newly-released Switch version comes with a few new stages, including a bridge made entirely out of crumbling blocks, and a circuit board world that leaves cyber trails when players move around in it. Most maps will have their own environmental hazards like chasms, barbed wire, or falling elements like ice shards, but some maps are built entirely on some sort of gimmick: a dance floor with obtrusive lights, a pier level with a giant ocean wave, or a volcano map with streams of lava. The stages and maps themselves have fun gimmicks that add variety and recontextualize the different level creation tools being used.
There is a level of childishness or crudeness to the character designs and proportions that do give it a certain charm, but the environments they occupy, while colorful, are a bit bland-squint slightly and it looks South Park-like. There is a minimalistic quality to the 2D cartoon art style of Ultimate Chicken Horse, almost to the point where I’d call it “simplistic.” I hesitate to use that potentially derogative and reductive term, but the truth of the matter is that the visuals are not the strongest point of this game. It’s a fascinating metagame, as you attempt to add blocks that make the level just easy enough for you to finish, but also difficult enough to potentially stop your opponents. And it helps that one tool from the kit is the ability to basically blow something up, cleansing the level of undesirable and possibly impossible fixtures. When nearing the end of the match, the basic parts of the level will be set, and the final rounds will likely be devoted to refinement and minor adjustments. Shockingly, this chaos created from up to four players can eventually turn into something surprisingly cohesive. If your goal is to cause much grief within your friend circle, there are certainly enough options to choose from. Saw blades, wrecking balls, spiked platforms, and even an automated machine that shoots hockey pucks are amongst the one-hit-kill hazards. There are basic blocks and platforms, moving elements like treadmills, falling platforms, portals, and platforms that move up and down or left and right, but then you have a host of dangerous obstacles. It’s a good thing the toolkit is so varied and versatile to allow this back-and-forth.
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