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You start off in a house, pick up a suit and then are transported to a strange world. With your suit, you can run fast and jump extremely high. Your suit prevents any “fall” damage.

Soon, you discover a grapple ability which allows you to pull yourself towards a surface. Initially you can only grapple once before landing on a surface, but as you play, this is upgraded up to 3 times.

The game is basically a series of obstacle courses. Small islands, moving platforms, moving rocks to grapple onto. You need enough momentum to cover large gaps, so you need to time the release of your grapple to ensure you have the correct angle and distance.

For the most part, checkpoints are frequent so there’s no frustration when you plummet to your death. You are basically returned to the last platform. In the latter stages, the checkpoints are further apart, so will need to do a few sections before reaching a checkpoint.

The final sections are very tricky and it becomes less obvious where you need to go next.

The game is probably about the right length without becoming tedious or forcing extra mechanics. Given the game’s title, I was expecting a strong story, but I felt it didn’t really go anywhere.
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Jumping Jack
A Story About My Uncle is essencial a 3d first person platformer with some whimsical story sprinkled in.

The 3d platformer is done through a grappling hook and later in the game a jetpack, and it works off really well considering how often first person platforming tends to fail because of the decreased perception of the players own body. I suspect that the game uses very letinient hitboxes for this to happen, but it was the right decision. A good thing because the game can get damn hard at times when it commands the player to use all their learned abilities in sucession. This is alleviated by the frequente use of checkpoints, but even then it can be a bit frustrating in certain sections.

Which is odd considering how whimsical and juvenile the story. is. Its heartwarming in a certain way, even if it feels underdeveloped and secundary to the gameplay.

Its about 3 hours long, less if you are good at platforming, and the story is entertaining but leaves no impression of you once you are done. A good game, but wont be anyone's favourite.
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A Journey of Platforming & Nostalgia
Cave systems, cave monsters, villages filled with frog people. What more could a guy ask for from a game?

We all love Steam Summer Sale right? I mean, games with like 75% discounts and all that, who doesn’t love games with a discount? So when I saw this game was at a huge discount, I just had to buy it. It had been sitting on my wishlist forever and I really wanted to try it out, so I did. And I'm glad I did.

Before I start, you should know I absolutely love platformers and will generally always enjoy them unless they're horribly bad. Especially 3D platformers, those are just amazing. So if you don't like platformers, this game may not be for you.

“A Story About My Uncle” opens with a father telling a bedtime to story to his daughter. The story is about an adventure this man had back when he was very young.

The actual gameplay part starts at the house of this boy’s uncle who has been missing for quite some time. We learn that his uncle was an adventurer and an inventor. In the house, there is a special designed suit which we will go over later. After finding a strange device that launches us into the air, we arrive in a cave system.

Using the suit, it is possible to grapple between parts of the cave. This is the main mechanic that the game uses. Besides the grapple, the suit includes a high jump mechanic as well as other mechanics introduced later into the game. All of these mechanics are used to go through platforming challenges and reach the next destination.

After going through the caves, we’ll arrive in a village full of creatures that walk like humans, but they look like frogs. We encounter Uncle Fred’s friend, Maddie, a young frog creature girl who will help guide us through the rest of the journey .From this point on in the game, the goal is to go through the rest of the caverns and find Uncle Fred. I'll stop talking about the story now so that you can enjoy it yourselves.

A slight flaw in the game is that it doesn't really have much of a replay value. There are challenges where you can speedrun levels you played in the campaign mode, but other than that there's not much to do once you've beat the game.

But alas, the part that I enjoyed about this game isn’t the speedrun design, it isn’t the fantastic graphics and story, it’s the fact that it gives me a feeling of nostalgia. The entire adventure of looking for Uncle Fred sounds like something taken directly from one of my childhood imaginations about great adventures in other breathtaking worlds.

I don't know, maybe it's a personal connection of some sorts. But if you've ever dreamed of places far away as a kid, with fun adventures and breathtaking scenery, I think you'll enjoy this.
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  • CrackTheSky 2021-01-23 21:22:02.549898+00
    Fun 3-4 hour game that's just about the perfect length -- too much longer and the grappling gimmick definitely would have worn too thin for its own good. But, it's definitely entertaining for what it is and makes you feel like a badass when you nail some of its trickier sections. The story is (ironically) completely throwaway though, and the voice acting is pretty bad, but overall it was worth the time imo.
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  • Choord 2021-06-03 20:02:28.487722+00
    Leafyishere
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    • cringeybabey 2022-01-30 23:29:06.041587+00
      please don't remind me
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  • VolitionX 2022-03-17 19:47:52.809819+00
    Love the intricate obstacles in this game
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  • vibrii 2022-07-26 14:43:52.701499+00
    First person platformers are so satisfying
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  • sshrokk 2023-07-08 21:47:34.024272+00
    this is like the sweetest game of all time
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