This week your intrepid heroes hide in plain sight, fight some penguins, and rock out with our cock.
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Game: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Webzone: http://rocketbirds.com/
Devel: r a t l o o p
Engine: PhyreEngine
Price: $9.99 / €7.99
Wazzat: “Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.”
Makes with the working
V-
Loses a chair because the monitors go Zzzzzz. Got killed to death a few times because that.
J-
Loses a chair due to 3rd party controller xbox issues
P-
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Shiny / Sounds
V-
Generic as it is; live music is best soundtrack.
I really dig the art style and the animated cut scenes are actually worth watching for the story.
I almost want to ding it a chair for the ridiculous jumping animation, almost.
At first I thought it was a Unity joint but I walked by some headlights and noticed a shadow effect and was all “nope, Unity can’t do that”
J-
Music Is pretty decent rock
Art style…well its American chickens vs Commie penguins
P-
Animations are a bit janky
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Control
V-
Alright, the controls worked from the menu so I started a game. Nooope! You need to assign the Xclone gamepad.
You don’t do anything fast. Really, moving a boxen requires a full stop ……………….. wait for action button……………… then use.
Same goes for elevators.
CCV help you if you’re stuck in crossfire.
and that motherfkr wants to roll.
J-
Turbo seizure controller and Hori Controller don’t work apparent, need to use real xbox controllers
Controls themselves are pretty janky
Multiplayer has an interesting dynamic involving some lost viking style gameplay
P-
Controls worked out of the box with the PS2 Dual Shock
Unfortunately there were some situations where it refused to let me use the right analog to aim and I had to use the mouse.
Movement is not an exact science in this game
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FUN?
V-
Even with all the flaws this mental little side scroller kept me entertained.
I still loathe the rocket pack levels but wanting to learn more about the story made me sort the fkers.
And that’s the point. I kept coming back to this ridiculous thing during the week. Good game design is good game design.
J-
The sheer absurdity of the game makes it kind of fun
Ivan Drago bird
Multiplayer is fun, but fuck the dudes with the shields
P-
I guess Guacamelee has spoiled me when it comes to these type of games.
Multiplayer saves it from the score I had originally given.
If they had kept the original name, the score may have even been better.
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Final –
As far as light/arcady metroid-vanias go, Guacamelee is a lot better.
