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Unless it’s your first time, when you jump on to a ‘Haunted House’ ride at a carnival
or fairground you know what you’re in for - usually a tightly packed rail-ride filled
with cheap thrills and spooks where anticipation rather than genuine fear gets your blood pumping.
Thankfully the experience is short-lived, but in Pudding Panic by kunst-stoff a poor
thrill-seeking jelly is forced to live through a nightmare of 48 separate areas in the most
poorly maintained ride ever.
You’ll need to prevent the ‘pudding’ under your charge from dying of fright by
ensuring his ride is as smooth as possible by solving puzzles in real-time. Multiple
tracks that wind and twist around each other are combined with ‘enemies’ out to spook
the molded jello in your charge, however it’s in your power to modify the crossroads to
redirect traffic, either avoiding danger or bringing him closer to other objectives like
switches to continue his progress. Abilities can be activated by either collecting tokens
or obliterating nasties from the track, though some puzzles will rely on utilizing various
monsters to obliterate each other to proceed.
The dark and dingy environments of Pudding Panic are wonderfully spooky and varied over
the course of the entire game, mixing things up with different perspectives and game modes
to keep you on your toes. Later areas will require you to collect tickets in each level,
so some backtracking may be in order, though once you’re at the end there’s no major
incentives to come back for more.
Even still, overcoming every stage is a fun and unique challenge, making Pudding Panic
an easy game to recommend to those after something a little out of the ordinary.