L.G.C. |Reviews| — SpeedRunners

Your intrepid heroes race Walter White, throw controllers, and develop a crippling fear of people whose last name begins with W. SpeedRunners faces the CHAIRQUISITION!

Game: SpeedRunners
Webzone: http://tinybuild.com/speedrunners
Devel: DoubleDutch Games
Engine: Chameleon (Custom)
Price: 16.99 CAD

Wazzat: Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you’ll ever play.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

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Holds well above 60+ FERPS at 1080 and 2160.
Rumble will flip the hell out but you can nope it.
It can be hella fussy about changing resolutions in windowed mode.

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Every time you hear someone say stylized take a shot… stylized.
Seriously, I really dig an art style that is best described as retro minus the hipster pixels.
Clean detailed backgrounds and unique characters each with their own animations.
The background noise has a Kill Bill vibe to it and the sound effects get the job done.
I would normally give something like this three Chairs but alas, I can’t.
Why?
Because you put Walter White in a chicken suit.
SO YOU GET FOUR!

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The comic booky characters are great looking in the game. But the comics you get for beating chapters are fucking terrible looking. What is up with that?
The music is certainly there, but I find myself paying less attention to it when I’m trying to not fall offscreen and time my rope shots perfectly
The tempo is good though and it gives a sense of urgency. Fits

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Everything is heavily stylized.
But some backgrounds on some of the levels have exactly the same color as some of the characters.
I lose track of my character, every now and again in some levels. Especially when the camera zooms out because someone is getting left behind.
The music is pretty good.
It’s not going to blow your mind, but the high-tempo beat really does help with giving you a certain need for speed, as it were.

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Control

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Everything works OOTB /w the Xclone
Tight controls are tight

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This game requires tight controls and delivers.

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FUN

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Run, jump, swing, slide, yell, throw controllers, and develop a crippling fear of people whose last name begins with the letter W!
Or as we call it here at L.G.C. “prom night”
I decided to learn the rope-organs playing the story mode.
Where you face off against four bosses, each with four zones mixed with four difficulty levels… of pain.
Sweet, sweet, addictive pain.
Seriously, I spent two days on-and-off working my way up to level HARD and only managed three (possibly four) rage nopes.
Even then, I came back for more.
Then I rang up the lads and we put in a few hours of competitive name calling a.k.a. multiplayer.
It was a FSM damned blast since we all started from naught, and over the past few weeks we’ve went from bumbling about to bumbling about slightly less.
Using this new found confidence I decided to have a go at a ranked match… and things went a bit south.
Why? Because matchmaking sucks floppy donkey balls.
My first match was with a lad who immediately noticed the rank imbalance and promised to take it super easy.
I was thinking “pfft!” but yeah, she (or he) ended up waiting on me… several times.
My second attempt at ranked was met with three other high-level players who outran me in 45sec or less.
Yeah, floppy donkey balls.
But if you have some mates (IRL or online) and want a proper party game give Speed Runners a look.

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This suffers from the same problem that Towerfall, Payday 2 and Action Henk have
Once you play multiplayer, single player is just completely boring
This game works when you have friends that you can compete and shit talk with
Ranked multiplayer might be a killer feature when you want to try to trim milliseconds off your run, but it doesn’t do it for me
Still, the fact that it supports any combination of local and remote players makes this perfect if your friends are all fake internet people
The level design is top notch and the powerups add just enough chaos to make things interesting
Combine that with tight controls, and you get a rollicking party game that is sure to end in one person chasing another IRL

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It has a token single player campaign just so you can unlock the basic skins and maps.
But that’s not where the meat of the game is.
This is a party game.
There’s no way around that.
It shines when in a social context and the fact you can mix couch multiplayer with online multiplayer just makes it even better.
Mechanically speaking, it’s a 2D platformer where the aim is to go faster than your opponents.
It’s everything a multiplayer Sonic game should have been and never was.
- I still have nightmares about Sonic Racer on the Saturn.
The narrative here is completely unnecessary, but it is still very much there.
The aesthetics fit the game perfectly. They’re very simple, but then again so is the game.
And simple is often good. The less time you spend on superfluous bullshit, the more time you spend on what it is exactly that compels people to play your game.
Still, I can’t give it 4 chairs.
To no fault of the game. I’m just not a sociable person.

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