Recent reviews by DaMathFreak

southern gothic story steeped in christian mythology thru the gameplay of a japanese adventure game. basicly an excuse to talk to louisiana weirdos and go thru this little ode to an area that will be lost thru time and climate change. a nice mix of overly dramatic conversations/prose about what it means to live in the dying gasps of an area intermixed with 30 paragraph stories about guys their toilet experiences.

nice little mapgame, took my successful playthrough about 2 hours or so to beat. no tutorial but most of the mechanics are intuitive enough, only thing that was kinda unclear was the search mechanic allowing you to search the same region multiple times. big recommendation if you liked the jokes in barkley shut up and jam gaiden, very similiar comedy stylings to it.

This is my only serious review because this game is on several of my friend's wishlist and I want to warn them.

This game is really horrid, it's basicly everything wrong with NES homage games. It looks ugly as hell, the game design seems intended to kill you instead of giving you a challenge to deal with. Even if this game was made bad in a ironic way, there is no actual fun to be derived from that. The only humor in it is "Did you see this MST3K episode? Well here's a reference to that". Which I wouldn't mind if I was speaking to my nerd friends, but just saying "look at these funnier people and what they joked about" does not constitute as a good joke for it's own premise.

About half the levels take place in the dark with only a small cone of light around you, which wouldn't be so bad if your cone of light wasn't barely bigger than your character. This creates a large amount of problems because the game just loves to throw enemies at you that knock you back into pits. You could potentially deal with this problem by just shooting what's coming up, but a lot of enemies home in on you from above, where you cannot shoot or are outright invincible. The final level is a auto-scrolling level that goes up, while you can't see what's actually appearing above. If you go too fast you will not notice the ball and chain that has just spawned that will knock you back all the way. There is a moment where they do this twice, one after another.

There is one level which is a plane level where you control a huge ass plane that covers atleast 1/6th of the screen. You die in one hit and it is nearly uncontrollable. The boss of that level is a giant chicken head and a plane which shoots small bullets you can barely see.

The game also just loves to cheat, early on there is a boss which changes your invincibility period to half a second, thus causing it to hit you multiple times if it so deems. This boss also is later reused in another game made by the same developer, so that tells you the effort put into it.

The music is decent, though. It's functional and does it's job well, never sounding unpleasant. However, not the same can be said of the sound effects. There is one enemy in the game that has a noise that can be accurately described as "Screamer midi as back in the dial up days". There is a UFO enemy that's spawned everywhere in one level that just the most painful noise known to man.

If you want to get a good homage to old NES games, I would suggest Shovel Knight. It is a better game than most NES games. If you want a funny bad game, just play Bad Rats, it's better than this is ever gonna get.

Oh also, the game outright didn't want to accept my DualShock 3 controller, no matter what program I used or input I set it at.

Update: As of this date, the dev has personally told me that they added a health bar to the plane level, this atleast negates my criticisms about that part. (Also 69% found this review helpful right now which is in fact Very Nice)

Update 2: The dev of this game tweetsearches himself and whined about this review for 3 days on his twitter. Got blocked when I told him in 3 different ways to stop tweetsearching himself. I have pretty much done what every game journalist sets out to do, so I now know what career I have perfected.

Update 3: He apologized, we all good.

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It's time for revenge! Jake Conway has just returned home from Vietnam when his younger brother is brutally murdered by a rival biker gang called “The Devil’s Hand”. Set in the outlaw era of America's Sixties, Jake takes on anyone or anything standing in the way of his bloody revenge fest - on bike, on foot and on fire.

Key Features
High-speed combat - Whether on foot or on bike, you'll be using melee and firearms to enact your revenge!
Customize your ride - Choose from a variety of decals, paint jobs, and body parts, and hit the road with your very own unique hog.
Rock and roll experience - Explore the roaring sixties, a time of anarchy and free love as a man with no rules.

FREE LUNG RAT