You intrepid heroes dodge, collect potions, and rage-quit. Penarium faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Penarium
Devel: Self Made Miracle
Engine: Custom
Price: $9.99
Wazzat: Penarium is a frantic 2D arena arcade game where you take on the role of Willy, trapped in a sinister circus show.
Venn:
Does It Launch
- Yip.
Performance @ 1080
- 60 all the things.
- No resolution settings.
Graphics
- Hipster pixel goodness.
Control
- Steamy goodness.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Here’s an old trick I had to pull out
- ln -sf /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.2.0 lib/libGLEW.so.1.10 is required in order for the game to run on fedora
- The launch script tries to install ubuntu dependencies and asks for a sudo password
Performance @ 1080
- Yerp
Graphics
- They’re pixelly
- They’re colourful
- You can tell one thing apart from another
Control
- You got three options
- Move, jump or bail
Jill:
Does It Launch
- Launches quickly.
Performance @ 1080
- 60 @ 1920×1080 & 1920×1200.
Graphics
- Windowed can be scaled easily and fullscreen works great!
Control
- Generic SNES controller and keyboard is very responsive.
QA Score:
Fedora:
Ubuntu:
Fun?:
Venn:
- Do you like Super Meat Boy?
- This is Super Meat Boy with a bunch of extra steps thrown in.
- You run, you jump, you explode into pixelated gibs.
- Oh, you also rage-quit.
- That’s what I found myself doing more often than not.
- Granted this was after trying one level 15 times in a row.
- That said, I did come back and after a bit more grinding managed to progress.
- Like Super Meat Boy it’s a fun little game… for a minute.
- Not something I would ever put much time into but definitely something to be broken out at parties after you have hidden anything that rhymes with heavy or sharp.
Jordan
- Tough but fair seems to get tossed around a bunch to describe games that have very difficult mechanics and demands mastery over them
- This game has one mechanic to display mastery over, and it is tough but fair
- You dodge
- The game wants you to be patient too. Levels don’t have time limits, and escalation is based on your progress
- A bunch of times I was just about to get mad about a death, but then I realized the mistake I made
- Also the looping screen is crucial for some of the challenges, somethingI didn’t realize until far too late
- There’s a lot of stuff to keep track of for sure, but you never lose your dude
- That lotion mission can EABOD though. Whoof
- The one after that is just an exercise in patience
Jill
- Penarium: A sadistic circus for sure!
- Super Mario on hard mode! It gets very hard, very quick.
- Very addictive and brings you back wanting more.
- Prepare to die a lot.
- The opening animation that leads into the gameplay is very thematic and fluid and fits the vintage circus theme.
- The art style and soundtrack are very charming!
- Has an endless arcade mode that I enjoyed playing.
Fun Score:
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