It has been also called a metagame and a "response" to Super Mario Bros. or an "affectionate parody of the tendency of video games to trivialise victims.

Hitting the "Continue" button after dying plays a sequence of humorous cutscenes dealing with the aftermath of the player's death.

[8] The player takes the role of the crooked-legged, cross-eyed Jemaine who, much in the manner of Super Mario, goes to the castle of a giant, pink lizard named Sir Giant Pink Lizard to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend.

[11][3][4][2] The platforming part of the game was described as "rather average" by Adrien Guilloteau in Le Figaro, but the cutscenes "quite fun.

[13] In a feature on metagames, Jaime San Simón of Eurogamer described it as Richert's most interesting game.