Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash is an adorable and charming puzzle-platformer, but it suffers from a lack of focus and poorly executed ideas. It introduces concepts but does little with them, and the interesting ideas are underused. I did enjoy little victories like finding a snack collectible or the rare exciting platforming moment, but otherwise, it’s sluggish and not especially fun to play.
Zip Lash mixes puzzle-platforming with action, but it doesn’t do either particularly well. The titular zip lash itself, a sort of hookshot using Chibi-Robo’s power cord with the ability to rebound off walls, is a really interesting concept for platforming and was sometimes fun to use. However, there’s nothing to the “puzzles” that present themselves that ever made me stop and think about how to solve them. They’re more like obstacles, and the platforming itself isn’t challenging as a result. The most difficult part about them is angling the zip lash, but that’s a control issue — the circle pad controls weren’t as precise as I would have liked, and it often screwed up my aim. Figuring out where to aim to get the right angle on the rebound, which is the most puzzle-like aspect, was never very hard.
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Zip Lash mixes puzzle-platforming with action, but it doesn’t do either particularly well. The titular zip lash itself, a sort of hookshot using Chibi-Robo’s power cord with the ability to rebound off walls, is a really interesting concept for platforming and was sometimes fun to use. However, there’s nothing to the “puzzles” that present themselves that ever made me stop and think about how to solve them. They’re more like obstacles, and the platforming itself isn’t challenging as a result. The most difficult part about them is angling the zip lash, but that’s a control issue — the circle pad controls weren’t as precise as I would have liked, and it often screwed up my aim. Figuring out where to aim to get the right angle on the rebound, which is the most puzzle-like aspect, was never very hard.
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