Pudding Panic

Pudding Panic is a very interesting timing based strategy game with a dark carnival flair.  Pudding Panic takes place on train tracks where our pudding guy is sitting on a cart trying to make it to the other side of the track.  He encounters witches and skeletons along the way which are pretty funny and interact with you as you go.  If you get hit by them your pudding jiggles, gets scared and goes the other way.  You are supposed to avoid or destroy the obstacles in your path until you can get to the other side.  You do this by several means, the first is to change the track as you go.  There are several pieces of train track on the right hand side of the screen that you can grab and place at certain junctions, this briefly pauses the game for you to place them, then you proceed as planned along the track.  There are also coins and other things you can grab along the way to help defend yourself. You can use coins or your party blowout whistle to destroy bad guys.  Ya you heard it right, your character blows one of those whistles you got at a kids birthday party to kick a bad guy off the track, which is extremely funny.  Pudding Panic was actually pretty fun as I was playing it.  I would say this is an OK game for kid’s as well, but before you give it to them make sure that you are OK with the “dark” side of it.  The game involves witches and skeletons, and although it doesn’t have violence or anything in it and tends to be more cute in nature than anything else; it still feels very dark to me.  All in all Pudding Panic is a great puzzle game, it kept me quite entertained, especially as the levels got harder.

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