Glitchrunners, from Torque Games, takes the fast, competitive platform genre and adds in more level obstacles, more deadly traps, and more explosives – it then plonks those obstructions into the hands of a human. At its purest level…
Ask anyone on the website about a specific platforming series from a certain French publisher which relaunched onto the scenes in 2011 and they’ll tell you not to mention it by name without ear-plugs in.