"Fun with Flidendiciously Flying Limbs."

Yes, limbs will, indeed, fly. In this game, you play this... pile of goo-with-legs named Plok. His flags have been stolen by some giant fleas... and so the game begins.

Sounds: 7/10

Hey- it's the SNES. The sounds are actually pretty good for the platformer- bonks, boings, etc.

Controls: 9/10

The controls for Plok are pretty good, actually: x to throw limbs, control sticks to move. You don't really need all that much speed to kill- the game's difficulty is hidden in its puzzles.

Gameplay: 9/10

Ahhh... good. Plok is a platformer with lotsa puzzles- and they're all good. Look at the coat-hanger puzzle in the final levels, for example. It's so incredibly frustrating it's not even funny- those evil, EVIL puzzles that always stick you up in a game for 6 hours or so, yet you willingly forget your frustration in 5 seconds once you finish it and have to face, say, a boss.

The game just plops you in the Plok world- but it's so mind-bogglingly easy to figure out that you'll be in the tenth level by a half-hour or so.

In the later levels, the difficulty... skyrockets. The puzzles get nearly impossible, and you must use normally-common household objects to KILL EM FLEAS!!!

In the very last levels, you get revenge! Yay! You will get a vehicle or suit, whether it be car, tank, UFO or trench suit, ray gun and spring boots. Then you KILL SOME FLEAS!!! *cackle* Anyways, the gameplay is very excellent. Buy the thing- it'll probably be in a "used games" basket, due to its age. If you encounter it, BUY IT! Or I'll eat you whole.

Graphics: 8/10

Not really good or bad- let's say passing! Yay! They're flashy, with big characters, giving you big targets for aiming your limbs.

You won't get eyestrain with the colors on this: unless you've been playing for 6 hours trying to solve a puzzle...

Difficulty(more means harder): 7/10

The enemies are absoulutely no problem, with the bigness of them, and their slowness, and their pitiful attacks(mostly jumping around for no reason). Don't try to be Mario- Plok can jump, but he loses HP when he hits an enemy in the head.

The real difficulty in the game is the puzzles. You will, as mentioned, spend copious amounts of time trying to solve them, and then find that you have One. More. ****ed. Flea. to kill.

Replay: 9/10

The difficulty of this will prompt you to try and beat it in 3 hours or something- and until either you die or you get a comprehensive, complete walkthrough of about 1/2 of a gigabyte walking you through every single step the Plok will take and you memorized it, you will not achieve this. You'll try quite a few times, through- until you get bored of the stupid, evil, EVIL walking potatoes that constitute the first few levels- because if you try to hurry, you will die through one of the many traps in the game.

The average is 8.4, rounded down to 8.

Buy or Rent: Buy- you can't really finish all the puzzles and have a life in less than a week.

Summary: Plok is a very hard yet short game- the puzzles are INSANE, but you get revenge... REVENGE! Death! Vaporize the Flea Queen that sent out some million fleas to kill you!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 10/25/04