PixEvo - The Fountain is an incredibly frustrating, pixelated Time-Waster

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters

When PixEvo - The Fountain first begins, you're a tiny, blocky pixel. You can't walk -- you can only skip from place to place, using the up arrow keys and then the left/right arrow while you're airborne.

So you start helplessly bouncing around the screen, doing the only thing that you can really do at this point, which is "eat" the tiny dots. Suddenly, something happens! You grow bigger! Now you can jump farther than ever before!

Justifiably enthused, you take the challenge and start hopping farther and farther, eating all the tiny dots that you can reach. Suddenly, you get legs! You're no longer constrained to hopping around; now you can walk. So, you start walking and trying to eat even more dots in order to see what ability you gain next. As you see, it was at this point that I took the screenshot. I had eaten six dots, and I had ten more to go before I gained a new ability.

This is just about when the game got really frustrating; if you miss a jump and land incorrectly, you often have to take a whole series of smaller jumps to get back to where you were. Then, if you miss again, you have to do it again ... and again. The good part is that you can't die, so you can just keep at it until you succeed.

... And when you think about it, the frustration factor often makes for rather effective time-wasters.

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