Hello fellow veterans, I am your veteran driver, a salty fish who is still thrashing about in the gaming industry at the age of thirty-five. I opened the Time and Space Hunter section today. I originally wanted to find out if there was any fresh H5, but I found a game called "Kill the Stickman". It's free and can be run with version 5.0. The developer is from Hainan, and you can tell it has a wild sense of humor.
Isn't the name of this game so straightforward that it involves posing for a stick figure to go downstairs and get out of the car? At first I thought it was the kind of casual game where you just click on the screen without thinking, but then I started playing it and found out, oh, there's something about it. You have to bend the stickman's arms and legs into various positions like playing with building blocks. If it's a little tilted, he will fall like a broken sack, haha. It reminds me of the "Hand Swipe" series I played on Nokia back then. There was no such fancy physics engine at that time. It all relied on imagination and gravity sensing. It was a small game with blurry images that exploded. I could squat in bed and play until three in the morning, and go to class the next day with dark circles under my eyes.
To be honest, the image of the stickman is really old-fashioned. I think back in the Famicom era, we called this thing a villain. In order to make it jump over a pit, we had to press it on the handle and my hands were all sweaty. Later, a bunch of flash games featuring stick figures appeared on the computer. In the era before smartphones, it felt really happy to play Jay Chou's songs in Internet cafes while clicking the mouse and watching stick figures make various anti-physical actions. Today's young players may think that the picture quality is not good and the operation is rough, but I really found some of the pure fun-seeking spirit in "Kill the Stickman".
Talking about the game itself, it just makes a fuss about the most basic stick figures, but the level design is really funny. When you go downstairs, you have to consider whether to step with your left foot or your right foot first. When you get off the car, you have to think about how to make the stickman land safely without being deflated. Every time I adjust my posture, there are new surprises. Some postures caused such a terrible fall that I almost strained my abdominal muscles from laughing at the screenshots. Some friends may think this game is too novice, but for me, a seasoned player, this relaxing and non-brainy approach is perfect for relieving the fatigue of moving bricks during the day.
Think about the journey of game veterans like us, from Contra on the Famicom to Monster Hunter on the PSP, and now to various triple-A masterpieces on mobile phones. The game graphics are becoming more and more exquisite, and the systems are becoming more and more complex, but sometimes I really feel that happiness is not so easy to trigger. But the approach of "Kill the Stickman" is a bit like some of the classic stress-relieving games I used to play, such as "Angry Birds" and "Naughty Crocodile Loves Bathing". They are the kind of things that seem simple at first glance, but the gameplay is extremely addictive. Simple, but you just can't stop.
If you are tired of playing those boring and expensive masterpieces and want to get back to the original joy of laughing for a long time just by making the villain fall on his butt, try "Kill the Stickman". It doesn't cost any money anyway, and there is no problem with 5.0 compatibility. You can just take it out and play it. Finally, I have to say something with emotion, games always become more interesting as they get older, but occasionally a new and innovative thing pops up, which really makes my old bones shine. Okay, I'm going to continue making stick figures. I'll tell you another time about the legend of me playing in the arcade for one coin a day. That's the real story! 😎