I can't review this game without mentioning the original. When I first loaded Head over Heals (onto my ZX spectrum back in the mid 80's) I was hooked. It was basically the 'Apple' of computer games - meaning it was at first glance a rip off of Ultimate play the game's "Knight Lore", however in reality it took what Ultimate gave us and damn well perfected it.
The game was basically a bunch of mini escape rooms testing your logical abilities to either overcome obstacles, get out of traps, or simply forcing you to rely on luck to get past randomly moving nasties like mechanical gorillas!
The delicious graphics, smooth gameplay, great music and novel idea that the two characters can be combined giving the player both abilities is pure genius, and at the time all this was squeezed into only 48 kilobytes of code.
This remake?
It took me right back to those days in the 80's.
The game plays almost exactly how it should - the only 2 differences is that there is a button to jump and pick up at the same time (a god-send!), the other is that you can no longer mash the swap button whilst jumping, causing Heels to jump higher than normal (it was a cheat back in the day).
The developer has included extra rooms, plus there is an extra world to explore (the IT department - btw, nice touch that you fall down to the basement to get there - a nod to the I.T Crowd?
All these new rooms only add to the game and sit so well that I'm sure that if you'd never played Head over Heels before, you would not know what is new or old.
What more is there to say?
It's cheap to buy, It'll give you hours and hours of pleasure, it'll make you think, it'll make you happy, it'll make you swear, and it'll make you want to write a good review!