At one point minecarts are encountered and you’ll be quickly moving between platforms (rails) to avoid getting squashed. Other good moments include stages that have putties in seemingly inaccessible areas until you remember the stretch ability and reach across onto a shelf to pull yourself inside. Other times you begin levels by just avoiding the attacks that are coming from multiple directions, before launching your counter attack once you’ve found a safe spot. It’s not always so straightforward, however, and the game can get a bit more interesting if you have to go find a missile foe to absorb and then head back to blast your way through to a putty you couldn’t otherwise collect. Call up your map, check the locations (even the exit is shown), plan your route and off you go. The primary aim of each level is to collect all the red putties and then head for the exit that appears, but there’s no real exploration required. Should you have collected some explosive nitro, this is thrown in the direction you are facing - which is fine - but it can also be dropped when in your inflated form, and in those instances it’s not always clear which direction you are facing. There’s a float move that could have been used with the jump button (double jump? up and jump?) but instead has its own button. Putty has a basic attack, but rather than use the one button, there’s two (one for left, one for right). In order to perform Putty’s various actions a number of buttons are employed.

These may not be frequent occurrences, but nor are they the only problems in the game. Sometimes you’ll find your forward momentum stopped by what looked like background decoration and other times you’ll fall off what you thought was a platform fatal if you were at the bottom of the screen. On the negative side of things stage scenery can look too square in places and there are a few occasions where it’s not clear what’s part of the background and what’s a platform.

Putty squad ps4 trailer