Buzzsaws, swinging wrecking balls and collapsing platforms only further serve to make the stage even harder to traverse. Machines that fire flaming tennis balls and hockey pucks are a great way to snatch a few extra points for eliminating others (although you’ll need to watch out yourself). Platforms come in many shapes and sizes with players able to use them to both help or hinder others. The game offers a good mix of objects to place within the environments, some helpful and a good amount simply there to take you out. Of course, each of the game’s stages act as canvasses for its players to create their own nightmarish obstacle courses but still manage to offer enough to help give each its own sense of identity. Later maps meanwhile introduce unique ideas such as disco lights that obscure your view of the platforms and dangers ahead or a moving iceberg that carries you across the entire level. Early examples keep things relatively compact and simple having you make your way across farms, city rooftops and a dilapidated mansion complete with working elevator. Stages in Ultimate Chicken Horse offer plenty of variety both in terms of environment and gimmicks featured. Points are then awarded (or not should everybody pass or fail) and the process repeats until a target has been met by one player. The idea here is that the level becomes too difficult for your opponents to complete but not so difficult you yourself cannot reach the finish. At the beginning of every round players have the chance to choose one object – out of a small selection if playing Party mode or from the entire catalogue if in Creative mode – to place within the environment whether it’s a platform, collectable or dangerous obstacle. Sounds pretty standard for a platformer right? This is where the game gets interesting. Games are played in rounds, the aim of each to simply reach an end-goal flag in one piece. Ultimate Chicken Horse is a multiplayer focused experience that’s part 2D platforming and part Super Mario Maker-style building mechanics. Even with so many great examples already available though, Ultimate Chicken Horse manages to revise the genre in some truly spectacular ways that make it feel wholly fresh and unlike anything else out there. The Nintendo Switch is no different already playing host to a number of big first and third party efforts like Kirby Star Allies, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Sonic Mania as well as plenty of excellent indie titles including Celeste and Flat Heroes. Nintendo systems are no stranger when it comes to the platforming genre, especially those of the 2D variety.
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