DONE BY: dessgeega

IT’S FOR: Computers!

YEAR: 2008

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Mighty Jill Off is a Mighty Bomb Jack-inspired, NES-style platformer, made by dessgeega, a lady who loves videogames. What happens is that Jill, the cute li’l leather-costumed sub in a sub/domme relationship, offends her Queen and is booted to the bottom of a perilous and spooky castle tower. She has to climb back to the top, and hopefully get spanked I guess!

Jill Off is a very small and very perfect game: it’s as big as it needs to be, and no bigger. Invader – an earlier game by dessgeega – was the opposite: so many rooms to explore, but you do pretty much the same shit in each one. The degree of improvement between that game and Jill Off is inspiring. Jill Off is tight as hell – all killer, no filler; fun and fresh from start to finish.

The mechanics of Jill Off are simple and limited (the game uses only three keys), and there is only one kind of enemy, and no moving or otherwise mischievous platforms. But dessgeega arranges and rearranges the spare elements of her game in every possible combination, delivering a new challenge to the player as soon as he’s mastered the previous one. It is one of the least repetitive games I’ve ever played. In fact, Jill Off reminds me of the original Prince of Persia – another game with many and varied challenges constructed from just a handful of building blocks.

I should mention that although Jill Off is tiny in size, it is not necessarily tiny in duration. It’s a fucking bastard of a game – there are a couple of areas I must have restarted about twenty times! Once you know what you’re doing, Jill Off takes ten or fifteen minutes to finish, but my first time through took about forty-five.

Trivial but, I think, worth mentioning is that Jill Off is one of the very, very few games I can think of that features human sexuality conspicuously, without making either a juvenile joke of it, or worse yet, a STATEMENT. There is literal bootlicking in Jill Off, but it will make you smile rather than roll your eyes. It’s quite a sweet little story, really.

Also, I can’t neglect to mention the gorgeous, gorgeous art of James Harvey, and the lovely music of Andrew Toups – dessgeega’s obedient little monkey friends from the Gamer’s Quarter forums.

We are now at the end of the review. Play Mighty Jill Off or get fucked!

FINAL SCORE: THE MAJESTIC MOOSE