Vex 3
The Vex that added water: ten acts of spikes, saws and crushers, nine unlockable challenge stages, and a breath meter underwater.
The 2014 entry that made Amazing Adam's stickman series a fixture. You run, jump, wall-slide and slide under blades through ten acts built from spikes, buzzsaws, timed crushers and collapsing blocks, with red flags along the route that turn green as checkpoints. Acts are entered from a hub you walk your stickman around.
Its headline addition is swimming. Submerged sections come with a breath bar above your head, so being underwater is timed as well as awkward, and drowning counts the same as a saw. Nine challenge stages unlock as you earn trophies, and taking gold on an act opens a harder version with tighter windows. Deaths are constant and cheap: you respawn at the last flag.
Controls
Arrow keys or WASD to move, Up to jump, Down to slide and to enter an act.
Tips
- Underwater, plot the route to the next air pocket before you dive; hesitating drowns you more than traps do.
- Wall-slide deliberately to control a long fall, because free-falling past a saw is rarely survivable.
- Touch every red flag you pass. Skipping one to save two seconds costs far more on the next death.