Bean's Quest is a gorgeous 2D platformer with a twist! Emilio has been cursed and his girlfriend kidnapped! Transformed by dark magic into a jumping bean, Emilio must bounce his way to victory through 50 levels spread over 5 worlds. Can Emilio rescue his one true love and find his missing pet axolotls? Bean's Quest is for Windows, Linux, Linux64 and MacOS X!
Bean's Quest just nails it.
Either you go the easy way, just finishing the levels and having fun, enjoying a game that's quite easy, quirky and colorful or you go the hard way and try to perfect each stage, enjoying a game that's a real PITA, colorful and frustratingly, deliciously, excruciatingly devious. As you did with most REALLY good platformers.
The gameplay is simple enough to be picked up by kids in seconds (left arrow, right arrow) and it has everything the more demanding player could want: 3 objectives per stage (jewels, axolotl and moves par). It runs beautifully, is beautifully designed and drawn, the music is catchy. You CAN'T go wrong with this one if you're looking for not-quite-platforming fun. Plus it's cheap. Why are you reading this? Go play. Nao.