Internet Court
I have to admit I found Internet Court really funny. It does have a lot of silly moments that make you go what but I loved it from beginning to end. You can beat this within 2 hours but it is really fun to get through. I love the acting being silly but worth it to make a good comedy. The Judge always makes me laugh at every turn. I love the silly ending that connects all 4 cases and my favourite case was the first one. I may not be a fan of the music in the game but love the credits song at the end.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
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Great writing, including fun dialogue when you make bad decisions (intentionally or otherwise). Clear video and audio with acting by Gamecola staff emeritus.
The judge once said, “I’m going to let you try again, but first I’m going to give you a strike!” giving me my third strike and ejecting me from the courtroom. I might have gotten carried away exploring dialogue options.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
General Horse and the Package of Doom
Someone reviewed this earlier and said it was a re-imagining of The Oregon Trail, and as I sit here attempting to write my own review I keep coming back to that comment. Is this game as timeless as that? honestly, probably not. But I can tell you what this game is. A fun, amusing, comical ride through another universe, with a cast of eclectic and weird characters all looking to stop our eponymous hero, or in some cases aid him, in completing his task.
Don’t come into this game with any expectations, and just allow yourself to enjoy this absurd, silly adventure. It might not look like much on the outside, but if you pass this game over, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Friends of mine agree that this game is a hilarious journey of skill, resource management, and wacky encounters. And it never fails to generate a laugh.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
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It’s a really dumb, poorly written game with amateur but earnest acting.
It’s fun.
It absolutely doesn’t take itself seriously and revels in how silly and awkward it is. It has all of the charm you’d expect from a game made by bunch of buddies who were just messing around and having fun. It doesn’t get more silly and more FMV than this. I’d also say the entertainment value isn’t just the humor alone which can be hit or miss, but the fresh and wild nature of it all, the sheer commitment to the absurd ideas that are being presented. There is also this admirable confidence about it, like the game doesn’t care if you’re entertained by what you’re seeing or not. The skip button is always there, you can decide for yourself if you want to keep watching a scene, the game just keeps doing its thing.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Roundabout
Roundabout is a cheesy low-budget FMV game starring a limousine driver, a mechanic, a lady in a hat, and a $40 skeleton bought off of Amazon.com with surprising entertainment value.
In Roundabout, you control a constantly rotating limousine. You play as Georgio Manos, the world’s first revolving limousine driver. Your limousine is constantly rotating at all times, which forms the core of the game’s gameplay – you know how to get from point A to point B, but your constant revolution makes your life a lot more difficult. Early on it is fairly simple, navigating your way around stationary obstacles, but as the game progresses, things get increasingly more difficult, with moving obstacles, barrels which cause you to bounce in the opposite direction after striking them, platforming (done while spinning all the while), and the odd unique gameplay challenge to make things harder.
– Real player with 21.0 hrs in game
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Most of us have been gaming a super long time by now, and anyone who’s been around can tell that ideas are slowly running dry. Innovation is something more or less absent from the game industry as we see the market pump out bland shooters, uninspired retro platformers, Diablo-likes, or roguelike-likes sticking with elements they know sell while struggling to find ideas that haven’t been exhausted already. Every great once and awhile a game comes a long and changes everything capturing the hearts of players everywhere by simply presenting us with a mechanic so strange and simple yet is an absolute blast to play. A game that makes the player stop and ask “Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?”
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Toonstruck
“Тунстрак” - классический представитель почившего ныне жанра point&click, популярность которого пришлась на девяностые годы. От прочих представителей жанра данную игру отличает наличие оцифрованного актера, которым мы управляем и которому мы помогаем решать головоломки и продвигаться по сюжету. И актер не какой бы там, а сам Кристофер Ллойд, который подарил нам ярких и запоминающихся героев фантастических фильмов - судья Дум (“Кто подставил кролика Роджера”), Эмметт Браун (трилогия “Назад в будущее”), Фестер Аддамс (дилогия “Семейка Аддамс”). Ллойд играет художника-аниматора, который волею судьбы оказался в придуманном им мире, в окружении нарисованных им же персонажей. Над королевством Кьютопия нависла опасность в лице графа Нефариуса и местный король просит нас помочь в борьбе с негодяем, чем мы и будем заниматься на протяжении десятка часов. Игра очень простая и выполнена в рисованной 2D-стилистике, мы перемещаемся от одного экрана к другому, беседуем с персонажами, собираем хлам в инвентарь и ищем, куда это барахло применить, получаем новые вещи, попадаем в новые локации и т.д. Все это действо сопровождается отменным юмором, будто смотришь очередной мультфильм Луни Тьюнс. К сожалению, слабая рекламная компания и зарождающаяся в те времена мода на 3D, сыграли с игрой злую шутку, ее не спасло даже наличие на озвучке, помимо Ллойда, Дэна Кастелланеты и Тима Карри. Очень жаль, ведь в финале был жирнейший намек на продолжение.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
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Toonstruck | Arcade Theory
Close your eyes and imagine a world where animated characters interact with live action individuals. If you’re thinking about the classic film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, you’re on the right track. Picture the movie’s antagonist, the sinister Judge Doom. Now imagine him surrounded by a bulldog that sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a robot that sounds like Christopher Walken, an effeminate scarecrow, and dominatrix cows. If you’re confused, don’t be. This is just a fraction of Virgin Entertainment’s point-and-click animated adventure known as Toonstruck. Released in 1996, this game combines live action characters in animated environments to create a unique experience that could be seen to some as visually overwhelming, but challenging and fun to play for everyone.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Press X to Not Die
Introduction
Press X to Not Die is a quirky full motion video game filled with lots of humor and plenty of death. The game is a nice throwback to older games of this nature. Stuck in a world where everyone seems to have gone mad, you have to find away to not die through button mashing on your keyboard or controller. The game is a fun experience that can definitely raise your adrenaline, don’t blink or relax because you never know when you’ll have to press X!
Story
The game starts off like any normal day, that is until your friend rushes over stating that everyone is attacking each other and you have to press X to not die. From that point on you’re thrust into a world where your survival depends on your reaction time. But don’t worry, you’ll be dying a lot and actually this is the best part. All of the deaths are absurd as is the game itself. You have to rescue your girlfriend, find answers and get out of town in one piece all of this action packed fun is also helped with ridiculous dialogue which is funny and also meta. Don’t worry about the fourth wall, it’s been destroyed.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
Grade = B. Worth a buy, for those who enjoy short funny consequences, gamepad challenge, score attack. However, for who want a high budget product, don’t buy it.
| GRADE | SCORE (34) | WORTH BUYING? | OVERALL | DISCOUNT |
| A+ |
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
428: Shibuya Scramble
Fans of the visual novel genre have probably heard of Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft before the merge), the developers of the acclaimed Zero Escape and Danganronpa series. While Spike Chunsoft’s VNs don’t put a focus on cute girls or romantic drama, over the last decade or so they have gained a strong cult following with their intriguing mystery thriller plot and eccentric characters. What if I told you SC made another game that predates those two series and showcases arguably even better mastery of their strong suits? Enter 428: Shibuya Scramble.
– Real player with 60.5 hrs in game
To be honest, I already knew what my conclusion on 428 would be when I had gotten about halfway through it. For the sake of total disclosure, though, I decided I’d best complete the game in its entirety before pushing out a review. In short: 428 is a good game. It’s an exceedingly competent visual novel that stands out with its stylization and user interface. Its choice to use live action models as opposed to animesque sprites may have alienated a good portion of its Western audience, but I found it made the game more distinctive and engaging. Overall, I don’t regret playing it, and I can definitely see the average visual novel fan taking a lot of enjoyment from it, if they’re willing to accept the lack of anime stylization.
– Real player with 56.9 hrs in game
LocoCycle
Again Twisted Pixel is showing us what crazy things they can put together, and this game is not short of the craziness they are known for. LocoCycle is one of the best games I have played in a long time. Maybe it’s because I am simple minded, but I like games that are great fun and not filled with complexity. I had a big smile plastered on my face when I played this for the first time, it was everything I could have hoped for.
I have had the pleasure of playing this on XBLA as well. The only differences between that one and this PC version is the smoother fps and nicer graphics making this version look even more beautiful than its XBLA counterpart.
– Real player with 66.8 hrs in game
Cheap, explosive fun.
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Presentation
LocoCycle is among the most weird games you will ever see, as the whole sentient motorcycle dragging behind a mechanic who doesn’t even speak English is only the beginning to the rest of the story that makes even less sense than that. The journey starts when I.R.I.S, an intelligent motorcycle sees an ad for a biker gathering called the Freedom Rally in Scottsburg, Indiana, so without wasting a moment she decides to head in that direction, dragging Pablo along with her for the journey and putting her creators, the Big Arms Corporation on her tail as they continuously try to stop her.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Super Seducer 2 - Advanced Seduction Tactics
Super Seducer 2 can be seen as an excellent combination between an amusing and interesting game. I find it to be an upgrade of the first game in the Super Seducer series.
The nature of the game is unique in which I cannot simply give a number of reasons to play it based on important game elements.
Game review: Super Seducer 2 is a tutorial game that gives you advice regarding social interaction (usually for sexual or romantic purposes) with as consequence that the topic of story cannot be addressed since there is not a real story but more a series of scenarios with possible instructions. It is up to the player to select an option among multiple ones in order to achieve the goal of the scenario. In these options there are 3 types of answers: the correct ones, the bad ones (they are incorrect but they do not stop the scenario) and the dead ones (which put a complete stop to the scenarios). The last category has obvious examples and thus it is not unlikely that the player would wish to explore those choices which is proof that the makers do not take themselves too seriously, which would otherwise make the FMV games less pleasant. I found the game to be a good source of information and of memorable laughter so I would really advise to players to play it if they either seek council for social interaction or if they simply want to test their knowledge and have fun with it.
– Real player with 51.7 hrs in game
Super Seducer 2 is finally out on Steam!
This game try to expand the first one, so i give a brief description of Super Seducer.
Like the first game it’s a “dating simulator”. The structure of the game is very simple.
In the main menù you can choose between various chapters.
Each chapter is a movie with a real life possible scenario in which you meet women.
In this movie there are some interruptions in which you have to choose between various
possible action or responses. After your decision the next scene will be influenced by your action.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
Interrogation Files: Port Landsend
I for sure would recommend this game to you if:
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You have already played Her Story, liked it, and would enjoy playing a similar game
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You wouldn’t be put off by lower production values (the acting, in particular, can be distracting)
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You can look past and put up with some minor but irritating design flaws
If the above describes you then I feel pretty confident that you would enjoy Interrogation Files: Port Landsend. It is clearly a small indie game, but it has an interesting story and I was definitely invested in the investigation to figure out what had happened. For me the good very much outweighed the bad, and I personally wouldn’t hesitate to play future games from the same developer.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
I randomly came across this little gem while browsing through FMV games and jumped all over it. I like FMV and I like crime, mystery, and detective games so naturally it was right up my alley. It follows the same format as Her Story by watching clips and searching for keywords, but this game manages to take things a step beyond by introducing multiple suspects.
The case that unfolds is interesting and keeps you invested. The acting ranges from pretty good to some characters who talk while constantly staring off camera to read their lines. I think my favorite part might have been the built-in ‘hint system’ for lack of a better term, where you can click a button to get a undiscovered clip unlocked for you. It’s a big help if you get stuck and it makes going for the 100% achievement much easier than similar games.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Next Space Rebels
There are many aspects of this game that are good, and their are many things about this game that are not so good. There are also some things that are infuriating. I will try to to break things down into the good the bad and the ugly as I love classic films and it is simple to follow.
THE GOOD:
The acting by the FMV actors is amazing. Rocket girl is extremely animated and emotive to the point where you forget they are an actor. Every actor gives a passionate performance that is both enjoyable and at time amazing. Not gonna lie 3 Rocket girl.
– Real player with 117.9 hrs in game
Honestly, I was surprised by this game, in a good way.
Way more in depth than I originally thought it would be, already have 50 hours in and I haven’t even made it past 180 kms in space.
The acting is actually not too shabby, I was expecting some cringe worthy content, but I haven’t cringed yet at any of the acting, though some of the lines they use are sketchy at best.
They love making fun of youtube, like, LOVE making fun of it, which i guess is some political moves from humble games, but at least everything they make fun of is legit an issue with youtube. This can also help show the effects youtube will have on the future if google continues to grow and continues to literally censor everything.
– Real player with 56.1 hrs in game