“That’s how astonishing it was. It made me want to touch your testicles.” Hello folks Brandon here, and that is one of the hundreds of insane lines you will hear from Bunny Lord in Not a Hero. Since last week nothing major came out I decided to download and give a shot the new game (to PSN) published by Devolver Digital. I must say they do not disappoint in the slightest. So let’s grab our shotguns and afterwards go to a diner for some celibately milkshakes. The story is weird, but quick to explain. Bunny Lord is an anthropomorphic rabbit from the future whose goal is to become mayor by cleaning up the town. How do you clean up the town? Quite simple actually you murder everyone who gets in your way. Now you do not play as Bunny Lord you play as an array of unique characters each with their own set of murder skills. To list a few you get Steve, Cletus, Mike, and Jesus. (Not Jesus but pronounced Hey-Zeus) The great thing about the story in this game is at no time does it ever feel like you are doing the right thing; which fits perfectly into the title because you are definitely not a hero. In fact you are if anything a mixture of the Punisher and the Joker, or at least Bunny Lord is. When you kill a gang leader they tend to beg for their life and Bunny Lord will brutally and without mercy kill them in the most 8 bit violent way you can see. I adore this because not only is this a very interesting take, but it leads for some funny ass dialog. I remember when I got more than half of the hostages killed in this one mission, and while celebrating at the diner for completing the mission Bunny Lord talks about how basically everyone makes mistakes, but oh well. I love a game that doesn’t give a fuck about if you save everyone just as long as you slaughter the bad guys in the process. The story keeps up the crazy, but it is a text based so if you hate reading well just enjoy the gameplay. The gameplay is pretty amazing it is an 8 bit side scrolling cover based shooter. (If that isn’t a mouthful) The game is hard as fuck with it all relying on your skill, memorization, and just overall good timing. As I already mentioned each character plays differently. They all use different guns and some have useful abilities such as reloading while running, or shooting through doors. What helps this game immensely is the fact that if you die (which you will) you respond instantaneously which can help against the losing rage. Just like games as Super Meat Boy if you die during the level in Not a Hero you must start the level over again. It can be frustrating, but the levels are only two minutes at a maximum. Sadly from what I can tell the game isn’t a very long game, but has the extra objectives to unlock new characters to add to the replay value. Saying that if you beat the game and unlock all the characters there isn’t much more to do. With levels being very liner this seems like a great game to play for a slow weekend. Overall with the game only being $15 you are better off saving you money. I praised it for gameplay and story which is fun and violent as hell the games length and content in general is just lacking. I’m definitely not saying to skip it by any means. I am saying wait for it to either go on sale for like $3 or become one of the PS Plus free games of the month. That is the best way to get this because this is the perfect game to play if you only have about 20 minutes to spare on it. I give this game a 3/5.
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Spider-man, Ant Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the X-men are just some of the many, many heroes that you won’t see in Lego: Marvel Avengers. Hello everyone Brandon here, and I dove into the six hour campaign that was Lego: Marvel Avengers. Now that is six hours of story not dicking around; just to be clear, but as a grown ass adult I don’t have time for collecting everything known to man. I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me dive into the story that makes this game…well exist really. I would call it a cash grab, but there are no movies out for months. I want to say that this is them out of ideas. Lego Marvel Super Heroes was an amazing game with hour upon hours of content, and with an original story. This game however is just The Avenger movies in Lego form. Normally when they adapt these franchises into Lego games they have three movies so that they can have a nice 8-9 hour game. This has two movies and it feels drawn out because of it. If they would’ve done a phase 1 game and next year released a phase 2 game my ton would be very different. With just the Avengers you get limited heroes and only four villains which is a stretch honestly. Compared to Lego Marvel Super Heroes where they had every hero you could think of same with a rouges gallery of villains. This game is just lacking in comparison. I will say though playing through these movies is just a stupid amount of fun. Playing through the scenes and going, “oh I remember that line, or hey here comes when Hulk grabs Loki” is just a ton of fun. The downfall of this is about half way through the game you’ll be thinking on how bad you’d rather just watch the movies then play this game. The game gets the feeling of the films down damn near exactly. They uses the same music cues when appropriate which just draws one. Of course being that it is a Lego game they have to make it cute and very, very family friendly. When showing how evil Loki is they have a scene where he is being just a dick to bunnies. They also have a very weird fascination with milkshakes. Seriously why milkshakes? Were they ever present in Avengers or even the MCU? I wouldn’t bring it up but this is a running gag that wasn’t funny or cute it was just off. The gameplay is that of a Lego game. The new thing they added which was pretty cool was special moves that two characters can perform to kill off a group of enemies. An example of this is say you have Thor and Captain America when you press O Thor will electrify his hammer and his Cap’s shield creating an electric shockwave. These moves feel like they are right out of the movie and you get the team feel of the Avengers. The worst thing this game does is the filler gameplay. These are levels that only exist because they realized they only had a three hour game. They have a whole mission of when Agent Coulson talks to Tony Stark at the beginning of the Avengers. I seriously didn’t need a while 15 minutes of that one scene. This game is a game that in this guy’s opinion did not need to exist at all. It is not a bad game it just feels like Travelers Tales isn’t really trying with this, or even putting that much into it. If this had more actual level like I said all of Phase 1 or something like that I would have a different tone. If you have a kid this is perfect because they will dive into this trying to 100% it. Plus most of their exposer is mostly the movies. As for you comic fans out there we have a better Lego game that is already out and cheaper. Honestly go buy Lego Marvel Super Heroes instead of this. I say barrow this game at best if you have a friend who has already purchased it, then just borrow it from them spend zero amount of money. I give this a generous 2.5/5. |
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