Awesome Pea 3 is a platformer like Saomi, N++ and Celeste. You run and jump through challenging stages to reach the end. Awesome Pea 3 looks and sounds great. It also plays great… except for one fatal flaw, no tutorial or explanation for anything. I couldn’t get past level 2. Now before you claim I’m Dean Taskahasi playing Cuphead, let me explain why using the level itself.
Ok, so in Awesome Pea 3 level 2, you start on the platform to the far left. Simple jump to where I am in the image. Now, to get to the next platform, you must air dash. Does the game tell you how to air dash? No. It’s the Y button, but I had figured it out by button mashing. The I’m on the far right platform. I assume you have to wall jump to get the key, except how do that is not explained, and nothing I did seemed to get me high enough to get me the key. So I gave up after half-an-hour and went and wrote this review. And no, the answer wasn’t hidden in the settings menu. Bad game developers, bad, bad.
Awesome Pea 3 should be awesome, but its missing documentation on how to play or even a simple controls screen. I don’t care that this is the third game in the series, absolutely no excuse for base-level things. Even some of the worst games I’ve played told you the controls. I shouldn’t be stuck on level 2 because the developers forgot to tell you how things worked. Maybe you can past level 2 and enjoy the game more than I did. I’m moving on. This game gets a YMMV with a six back-end score.
Overall: Awesome Pea 3 would have been awesome if the developers didn’t forget to tell you how anything worked.
Verdict: YMMV
| Release Date | 5/15/24 |
| Cost | $4.99 |
| Publisher | Sometimes You |
| ESRB Rating | E |
Game received for free from the publisher!
