Flawed – Nono Islands Review

Okay so no no island has a very simple premise. Think two steps ahead or you die. Great. And it does this very well... but not great. The game itself controls well and looks amazing, but it’s so difficult. And not in the way that cuphead or dark souls is no no it’s difficult in the same way it’s difficult for a child to eat broccoli at dinner. It’ll the happen but the way it’s done is stressful and long with no payoff. You die a lot which wouldn’t be a problem except for if you die on say level four. Each world having near five levels plus a bonus one. Then you get sent back to level one. So now you have to get all the back to level four just to find out what you did wrong or die trying and end up back to level one. The cycle continues. Now you can make checkpoints using these green coin things. That way if you die you can start from that level. But the coins are only few and not enough to cover every level plus you’ll use them on one level you might find challenging only to reload the next levels much worse and you should have saved it. The only other way to get green coins is to... you guessed it purchase more with actual money. Or watch an add to replay a level... even though you can only do that a few times a day. Perfect. Now the next problem is in the game. Each level has two goals, three if there’s a green coin. One to complete the level. “Easy” just get to the end. Two collect all the gold coin shards to open the chest at the end. This isn’t difficult either. By doing this on each level you unlock a price of a idol. Which will appear on the level select screen which is nice. Completing an idol gets the bonus level unlocked which completing that will make money appear in that part of the map. It’s a nice progression system but the problem is there’s no payoff. I spent a few hours on this beast 100 percent in it ( except for getting checkpoints on every level because I’m not giving this free game so much as a nickel) And you know what happens? NOTHING!!! A BIG PILE OF NOTHINGNESS!!! I mean I completed the crap out of this game and nothing happens. Not even a splash screen of the two main characters surrounded by money or something saying thanks for playing the game. But no. Look I’m not kidding you don’t get zip. This games not worth it. Alright if you want a game that’s a good time waster then fine. But don’t expect a gold medal for your efforts at the end of this marathon. Alright if it weren’t for solid controls and appealing designs. I’d say this game sucked. But even with those things I can’t help but warn anyone who gets to curious.
Review by BuckleyDotCom on Nono Islands.