One Angry Gamer "The game Pongo is a hybrid first-person platforming and shooting game. You use a pogo stick to hop around and get through the various environments, and at the same time you can use the pogo stick as a gun. The dual usage of the toy gives Pongo a unique identity all its own. Except, gamers aren’t quite feeling it."
Johnny Ohm, GIZORAMA - "You’re a dirty liar if you say that platformers back in the reign of 2D weren’t hard. You’re an even bigger liar if you tell me that the switch from 2D to 3D made things any easier. Depth perception and multi-axis velocity were easily dismissed in a world where I could only see myself through a side scroller, but the simple things I took for granted became a new Everest when first person perspective jumped into the mix. More recent 3D platformers, namely Mirror’s Edge and Dying Light, have reiterated this fact, but it may be possible that first-person platforming just needs a better game to warm players up with. Pongo is not that game."
Hey Poor Player's Jonathan Trussler writes - "The only thing fun about playing Pongo was thinking about how scathing my review of the game would be, as if I was some sort of insurgent plotting a terrible revenge against a hateful occupying force. Francis Dipersio, HeyPoorPlayer’s founding patriarch, is a truly kind-hearted, warm and understanding person: a quintessential family man. I’m sure that it was only saintly ignorance that led him to assign me this game to review. You see, there are bad games that are bad because they’re offensively stupid or have hilariously over-the-top glitches. They’re bad, but in some sort of remarkable way. Then there are games that are just so utterly lifeless, they just make you feel numb playing them, and time seems to stretch on into eternity. I have been to Pongo’s pastel coloured purgatory.
Pongo is a fun and surprisingly challenging game that combines extreme pogo-sticking with FPS combat to create a wonderfully quirky 3D action platformer.
