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Polybear: Ice Escape - I'm melting

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Polybear: Ice Escape - I'm melting
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Polybear is sort of like Crossy Road if Crossy Road was about a polar bear and the polar bear was jumping on ice but the ice kept breaking. It throws a good chunk of unfair collapses and frustrating leaps into the mix too.

And it doesn't quite gel together. Especially since the main premise - that if the bear falls off the ice it drowns - doesn't make any sense. Polar bears are pretty good swimmers.

On top of that the crumbling ice and moving floes don't feel consistent. Sometimes you get a decent chunk of time before having to leap off, other times they'll disappear before you've got a chance to time your next jump.

It's a shame, because there's a nice art-style here, and you get the feeling Polybear could have been much more fun. As it is it's probably worth ignoring, unless you really love polar bears drowning. Weirdo.

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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.