{"id":100902,"date":"2019-09-27T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/button_button_up"},"modified":"2019-09-27T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:00:00","slug":"review-button-button-up-a-perfectly-fine-platformer-and-thats-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/review-button-button-up-a-perfectly-fine-platformer-and-thats-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Button Button Up! &#8211; A Perfectly Fine Platformer, And That&#8217;s It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d382fb22da0ce\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d382fb22da0ce\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed pictures\" id=\"screenshots\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/99517\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/99517\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Button Button Up! Review - Screenshot 1 of 10\"><\/a><\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/button_button_up\">Button Button Up!<\/a><\/strong> is one of those platformer games that can be described as being just \u2018fine\u2019. It\u2019s not going to compete with some of the more accomplished games on the Switch like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/celeste\">Celeste<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_maker_2\">Super Mario Maker 2<\/a><\/strong>, but nor should it be completely glossed over. It\u2019s a perfectly serviceable platformer with cute visuals and fun collectables, and is perfectly accessible for younger, more inexperienced gamers. In other words, it\u2019s <em>fine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The main solo portion of the game sees you explore a group of <em>lengthy<\/em> linear levels, all of which are split into sections that you can return to at will from the main menu, but \u2013 if played in one long session \u2013 can feel like a bit of a slog. Your character\u2019s primary ability is that it can turn itself into a button, of all things. Its function within this state varies on the situation at hand; you can effectively latch yourself onto a rotating platform to gain access to higher ground, or use your button form to ward off deadly lasers that would otherwise turn you into dust.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, you can also kick various items and characters (yes, characters) to solve puzzles. Other button friends are dotted around the level, and kicking them into the correct position will allow you to proceed safely across gaps or traps. Of course, this is utilised to its fullest extent in the game\u2019s co-op mode, which lets you and a friend work together in an admittedly rather shallow capacity. There\u2019s very little depth to the game, and as such isn\u2019t particularly something that will directly appeal to adults, but we suspect kids would have a blast with it.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue we noticed was some odd jittering in the visuals, and we\u2019ve not quite worked out if this is due to the dodgy frame rate or the weird, stilted animation. Either way, despite the snazzy pixelated graphics, it doesn\u2019t run very smoothly at the best of times and can be rather distracting whether you\u2019re playing on the big screen or in handheld mode. There\u2019s also a ton of cosmetic items to purchase using materials scattered across the levels, and whilst a lot of these look pretty amusing, they don\u2019t particularly serve any purpose otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Still, like we said, it\u2019s a perfectly fine platformer that will quite easily keep you occupied throughout its relatively short length. It\u2019s not going to win any awards and it probably won\u2019t become your favourite game of the year, but if you\u2019ve exhausted all other stellar platformers available on Switch, you could do a lot worse than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Button Button Up! is one of those platformer games that can be described as being just \u2018fine\u2019. It\u2019s not going to compete with some of the more accomplished games on the Switch like Celeste or Super Mario Maker 2, but nor should it be completely glossed over. It\u2019s a perfectly serviceable platformer with cute visuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}