MadCap Reviews - "Fancy Pants Adventures"

Oh, goodie, more Flash Games! This time a bit of an older title comes to my attention, Fancy Pants Adventures available on Armor Games, and more recently (by the game's own admission) on the Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. Developed by one Brad Borne and a Ts7, this game is now pushing seven years old.  Does it still hold up? Is it worth it to even give it a shot? Will I ever get back to reviewing actual game releases?

 Well, if you have to ask, then you don't know.  Thankfully I'm going to answer those questions...most of them, anyway.

In this world, the player is given control of a stick man with wicked hair and a pair of brightly colored - one might argue fancy - pants, who traverses the world to...well, there is no real plot to this one. There's a bit with a penguin near the end, but that's not so much a plot as a final boss fight.  The controls for moving around Fancy Pants Man are pretty much what you'd expect for a platformer like this, the arrow keys move you, the 'S' Key allows you to jump and that's really all you need.  Like Mario if he had awesome pants and some killer hair, F.P. Man can leap on the heads of his enemies, sending them into a daze before punting them off into the air with a strong running kick.

There's also collectables available that are Easter eggs, little nods to other Newgrounders and various others who aided in the development of the game, as well as the ability to change the color of your Fancy Pants from orange into a variety of other colors.

And that, so far as it goes, is pretty much it for Fancy Pants Adventures...well, the first one at least. I'd recommend it, just don't be looking for anything of real substance.  It's a platformer, and it's fun, but there's really not that much to it.  Luckily, I've played the second one, which has far more complexity, and I've heard that 3 increases the complexity of it even further. Who knows? There are plenty of Fridays left in the world.

Fancy Pants Adventures is now available on the internet.  Seriously, the link is above.