Pants. The word means nothing.

Fancy Pants, on the other hand, is a three-syllable name for a five-star side-scroller. The hero in this game is Fancy Pants, a yellow panted stick-man on a quest to find the door to the next level. In his path are a series of surmountable obstacles and creepy enemies which require our slim hero to jump, duck, and dodge or risk becoming a stick figure with wings and a harp.

Fancy Pants is a solid side-scroller with few to no negatives. It’s fun, has easy to learn controls, and it’s playable for beginners as well as masters of the side-scrolling arts. But the best feature we liked about the game is the extremely well-animated graphics.

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