The Professional needs you to steal a precious diamond. The hard part is that you’ll need to guide your joints and limbs through some tricky traps to get it.
I never much think about how much work goes into walking, climbing, or crawling around until I play a game like this. In it, you need to grab a diamond and escape. However, you have full control over your limbs and joints and how they bend together. This sounds great, except it’s really hard to move around when only one leg and knee bends at a time. You’ll typically just end up crumpling onto the floor when you try to walk this way, so you have to move your limbs in some creative ways to get around. Flopping an arm against the floor to get a little air is a perfectly viable plan. If it gets you moving, you’ll need to put it to work to get that gem.
Some devious security guard has put some traps in your way, though. A box provides your first real challenge, as you’ll need to either launch yourself over it or swap around limbs until you can clamber on top of it. It’s brutally difficult to do with your floppy, goofy body, but the lasers are so much worse. At least you can rest your legs and arms on the box. The lasers…not so much. You’ll need to perfectly align your body with the gaps in the lasers without falling onto them. Propelling yourself forward and praying might be your best bet, here.
While it’s terribly difficult to get yourself around in The Professional, it’s also extremely funny to see what positions you end up collapsed in. It’s definitely a game you’ll want to play with friends or an audience so the shared laughter keeps the rage from building.
The Professional is available now (for whatever you wish to pay for) on itch.io.
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