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Home : Games : Reviews : Sony PSP : Hot Pixel
Minigames you wouldn't kill for.
Remember back when you and a few friends all huddled around a Game Boy Advance or SP in school, seeing who could get the most time before losing in Warioware? Those were the good old days, weren’t they? Fast forward to today and it seems like everyone wants a piece of that action. And shouldn’t they?
It looks like some shouldn’t. Atari’s latest rendition of the mini/micro/5-10 second game that hits exclusively for the PSP, Hot Pixel, thankfully doesn’t infect any other console, handheld or otherwise. Like your friend who sags down to his knees, this game is overrated and probably in need of a push, in the event it hasn’t already fallen flat on its face.
Carrying within it a collection of 130 different mini games (as well as 70 additional ones downloadable from their website, but not off the PSP directly), the biggest concern isn’t that there aren’t enough. By far Hot Pixel has a great number, the most we’ve ever seen. What it suffers from is a lack of originality and uniqueness between the different games. One will play exactly like ten others, with perhaps slightly different controls and animations.
This wouldn’t be an issue if the mini games that were repeated over and over again were actually entertaining, but they aren’t. In the ten levels, or episodes as they are called, the same ‘campaign’ style play that we’ve seen before appears. Three lives per ten levels, which for the most part are easier than expected. The biggest difficulty was simply succeeding at certain games the first time around, but that isn’t exactly as constant as the Sun. It could have been worked around easily, just the same.
