![]() It's made by a team which includes some olden Amiga devs and a professional animator, and aside from it being perhaps a bit too unforgiving, you can really tell there's pedigree here. His shivering and frozen-nippled gasping are the game's easy highlight. ![]() Plus, it's about a naked guy on a bicycle. It's a beautifully-presented game, it really is. It's about a naked guy on a bicycle.Īlso, it's about some startling epic background scenery, turned into much more than the 2D imagery it is thanks to natty zoom and physics shenanigans. Must admit I found it a bit of a trudge at times, due to the emphasis on very quick reflexes and remembering then repeating an exact route, rather than Trials' mix of fudging it, guesstimation and insta-replay - but the flamboyancy and strange fusion of bleakness and silliness endeared it to me nonetheless. Rather than a sequence of challenge stages, it's a flowing story of sorts - a platformer more than anything else, but with elastic momentum that brings death at every turn. And hey, even if you couldn't stand Trials, let's re-emphasise the naked thing - this is a game about a bloke riding his pushbike through a snowy wasteland, wearing only his birthday suit. ![]() Floppy-haired Brightonian games proper-journalist Simon Parkin describes Icycle as 'Naked, ice-age themed Trials HD in Flash.' He's not wrong.
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