Super Perils of Baking

Perhaps I went in with too high of expectations. Or maybe I wasn’t the target audience. But between the monotonous music that I eventually muted and the gameplay loop that tires itself out long before the cake’s done cooking, I couldn’t find much to savor when it comes to Super Perils of Baking’s flavorless recipe. If you’ve played platforming mainstays such as Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong Country, you’ve already seen everything this game has to offer and then some. If you don’t mind that and just want some solid platforming to kill five or so hours, it’s harmless enough that I’d say go for it if it’s on sale. But otherwise, it’s reshades of the same thing, and this game doesn’t dare to tread much farther than those before it.