Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 - Indie Game Review

Written by:  • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Published Jul 26, 2010
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Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 isn't the most original run-and-jump platformer, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it features some clever design choices, making it a total blast from start to finish.

An Impressive Flash Platformer - Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 Review

Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2
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When Brad Borne released Fancy Pants Adventures, he gave gamers a fun platformer that didn’t mess with the formula much but was still loads of fun to play, and it featured a nice hand-drawn look and cool music to boot. The game was for all intents and purposes more of a demo experience that exposed gamers to an idea that would spawn an improved sequel in Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2. The second game in the series takes everything that made the first game so much fun and blows it up exponentially, thus resulting in bigger levels and tighter gameplay.

Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 Storyline
Rating Average

At the heart of Fancy Pants Adventures 2 is a quirky plot that revolves around our hero, Fancy Pants Man, seeking revenge on a rabbit

Fancy Pants Adventures 2 expands greatly on everything that made the first game so much fun.
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who has stolen his prized ice cream cone, which he won after kicking a snail shell into a golf ball hole. It’s not the most serious of stories, but it warrants a hardy chuckle.

Evidence that Brad Borne isn’t taking things so seriously is scattered throughout the game’s backgrounds. It’s hard not to laugh when you see a parody of the Bat-Signal off in the background while you run through one of the game’s stages. These bits of humor tell a story all their own, and it’s clear that Brad Borne is aware of all the internet memes and lingo that go on throughout the web.

Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 Gameplay
Rating Good

Fancy Pants Adventures 2 is a run-and-jump platformer, and while it doesn’t add much to the formula, its level design is so well-crafted

Fancy Pants Adventures 2 features more hidden areas and trophies than the first game.
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that it makes it stand out among other games in the genre. You guide Fancy Pants Man through loops, run downhill at fast speeds, and wall jump like crazy, all the while collecting squiggles and jumping off enemies’ heads. Again, it’s not that the gameplay is very original, because it's based on a premise seen before in titles such as Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog; it’s that it is designed so well that you really need to play the game to understand why it’s so much fun.

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