Indeed, everything about Ayo the Clown should be familiar to fans of Nintendo platformers – from the level-hopping over world map to the sheen of the well-drawn background. The entire game feels somehow familiar yet fresh, like a Yoshi game that came sliding in from an alternate dimension. Tilting ramps, for example, are giant flat baby heads that squeal when your weight tips them one way or another.
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Ayo’s world is full of life and fun, with animated cartoon characters milling about and entertaining new takes on standard platformer mechanics. That’s really kind of all there is, but platformers have certainly been built on less. Ayo discovers that his beloved dog is missing, and ventures out into the world to find him. The story of Ayo is communicated in about 15 seconds during the game’s opening. If anything, Ayo is even more cute that I could have hoped, and his cheerful search for his missing dog only gives him more opportunities to prove his good intentions. Outside of a few slightly creepy still images used during cut scenes, there is very little insidious about Ayo, who bops through his little adventure with good spirits, making endearing little cooing sounds when he jumps or gets hit. It turns out that this was all projection on my part.
But something about the tone of the trailers made me slightly suspicious that Ayo might not turn out to be the sweet, adorable mascot he was made out to be. Of course, I was given little reason to believe that Ayo would be evil, beyond the fact that he is a clown. I’ve had a lot of fun with Ayo the Clown leading up to the game’s release, writing a continuing series of little articles attempting to discern whether Ayo is a cute, happy clown or a creepy, murderous clown.
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