Penny's Big Breakaway - Playthrough Part 5 (Ending)

Penny easily escapes prison into a stage filed with lava and fire. The only thing to keep in mind here are the heated metal pipes - you have to ride your yo-yo on them to not take damage. After several of those stages Penny has to face Judge Rufus. You have to avoid lightning falling from clouds, then you have to climb some books, activate 3 platforms and hit Rufus. He will drop his hammer, which you will then have to take and destroy the pivots holding the some weights. Repeat the process until all of them are destroyed. This tips the scales of justice and Penny is somehow proclaimed innocent. Then Yo-Yo bites on Rufus' book, who catches it and offers Penny a deal to go free if she lets him destroy Yo-Yo. This is a pretty reasonable offer considering that Yo-Yo is the one who committed the crimes Penny is chased for, but of course she refuses.

Several boring samey levels later Penny returns to the gala, where Emperor Eddie bombs. I really feel for this guy. He tries his best to keep his country together. Taboo teleports Penny in front of him to improve the show and a fight starts. It's a fairly easy battle. He would throw stuff at you and charge, but a singe hit is enough to put him out of the arena. The battle ends with a QTE where you spin Eddie around and throw him out again. He then has a moment of self-reflection and remembers the good old days when he and Taboo worked together. Then the arrogant cunt appears in front of him and creates a giant version of Eddie with her cosmic strings to attack you. That's pretty mean act to have, especially considering Penny hasn't done anything to her. In any case this is an annoying platforming challenge where you ride an energy road and avoid balls of penguins. Then you fly and have to avoid more balls until you reach string Eddie's head and unscrew it. Then Penny, Eddy and Taboo land on the stage, bow and the game ends. After the credits Rufus pardons Penny.

Penny's Big Breakaway is not a good game. The controls are awful and you constantly have to fight against them with a 25% chance to pull off the wrong move at a critical point. The levels are very samey with minor differences. The side quests inside them are terribly designed, made so that you can easily fail them in order to replay the level. The story had potential - a world where performance is everything, but the characters are mostly bland or annoying. Taboo is a cunt and Eddie is the only sympathetic character. Penny herself is in the bland category with her being quirky being her only personality trait. Ultimately it was boring. The devs were trying so hard to re-invent the wheel that they made a platformer which is not fun to play. You do get content in terms of challenges which can unlock gallery items, but I can't be bothered. There are much better platformers out there - don't waste your time with this one.