This is a legendary quest from the 80s, invented by the Oliver Twins, about a yolkfolk living in trees. The main character, Dizzy, constantly rescues relatives who get into trouble. And now he found himself on a strange island after his family was kidnapped by the Hunter...
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▼ Not recommended0 hrs
When I run this and open task manager I see that my GPU jumps to 99% use (which I've never seen happen since getting a good GPU) and the wifi use keeps spiking too with nothing else open. This is while on the menu, without even beginning the game. So either this is the most poorly optimised menu ever created, or this game is bitcoin mining or something like that. Either way I'm uninstalling because I don't want my PC to melt so I can play Dizzy Two.
So there's a DIzzy game on Steam! Not really clear what the involvement of Codemasters, the Oliver Twins or whoever owns Dizzy these days is, but I'm accepting this in good faith.
This is a fairly typical Dizzy arcade adventure, resembling the 16-bit versions with full colour graphics rather than the black sky 8-bit originals. It starts out in an actual house instead of one of those treehouse things, seeming to put Dizzy in more of a realistic setting than usual. I've played for a bit and found some annoying platform-jumping bits where you'll struggle for a while just to get back to where you started... Which is, of course, totally on brand for Dizzy. The puzzles I've encountered so far make sense; if anything they're a bit too obvious.
Not quite sure about this yet. If anything I'd prefer the original games on Steam rather than a sequel that doesn't do anything new 30 years later, and I can't say this truly recaptures the feel of the originals. But it's free!
