Hi there! If you’re joining us now, the month of march is gonna be all about platforming games – 2D, 3D, maybe even 2.5D.

Platformers are often very gamey games, starting out with simple objectives – save the princess, kill Dracula. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t have narrative ambition as well, or at the very least make an effort to be entertaining through wit and humor as well as gameplay. Heck, theres a whole subgenre of “Cinematic platformers”.

So what are the cases where you found the story, writing and humor to be additive to the experience? Maybe even be the main appeal? Has any platformer made you feel feelings? Do you even need any story context at all?

Bonus: What platformer/franchise could stand to have more ambitious storytelling/writing?

Extra Bonus: In what platformer/franchise was the storytelling actively detrimental, or completely overblown?

Extra Bonus Deluxe: what platformer bombed the hardest at comedy (It’s probably Gex but I will accept other answers)

TOMORROW: Biomes and level theming