Coinfields is made by CraePlay Studios and reminds me a lot of the laughably bad Balloon Jump, Smash Zombies, and Speeder Ship. Just like these other titles in their library, Coinfields follows suit. Meaning, the only reason to play this game is for the quick, no work Platinum.

Technically, I am not even sure if Coinfields can be called a game since there is no way to game over and almost nothing happens. After selecting to start from the joke of a menu selection screen, the player controls a teeny, tiny circle-ish character in a single screened stage. Let’s just say you control a potato wearing an eskimo hood because the sprite is so small, it is impossible to tell what you are playing as. Anyway, the game never instructs the player on what to do but the only thing of note is floating coins with two frames of animation. Which implies they should be collected. Once all coins are collected, it is on to the next stage and there are only a few of them.

Jumping, the only action performed, is also not fun because it is super floaty and unwieldy. Also, since the sprites are so small, it is nearly impossible to distinguish what is happening… which is a stupid thing to say since nothing happens in this “game.” 

There are so many questionable design choices: there is only one annoying music track that repeats on a short loop, there is a weird invisible wall at the near the top of the screen that doesn’t make sense, there are springboards and levers but the sprites are too small to distinguish, there is a timer at the top of the screen that literally serve no purpose, there is no way to die or get game over, there is no way to attack, there is no dashing, no collectables, no replay value, no story, the home screen is bare bones… Honestly, this game might have been made in thirty minutes using stolen assets from a Humble Bundle.  

When the Platinum trophy popped, my PS5 said I was playing this game for eleven minutes. But the gameplay time is probably half that because I was taking notes for this article while playing.

This low-cost download is not fun, at all, and its only purpose of its existence is so players can snag a quick Platinum. 

SCORE: 2/10

By: Zachary Gasiorowski, Editor in Chief myGamer.com

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