WEEK 12 | Vidiot Game Review

Geez, where to begin with this one.  I don't know what possessed me to play this game. I wanted to play a game that was quick and easy, so I searched for "best free indie games" and this was high on the list.

Its kind of hard to do a review on a game that leaves you bamboozled, shaking your head going "WTF"?  Too many drugs for the makers of this game!

As far as I can ascertain,  players progress through a series of short, unrelated action sequences, interleaved between perplexing interludes and trivia games.  On one play through that lasted all of two minutes, I was presented with the following:

• a level were I had to weave in between pot holes on a road in order to outrun a wormhole chasing me
• followed by a cut scene were i was asked if I wanted to meet the devil.  I have no idea what the outcome of that was.
• followed immediately by a trivia question asking me what makes someone famous - money, power and dada???  I was still left clue less to the result of my answer.
• next I got a scene where the character had a jet pack on and I had to avoid walls as the character moved along a tunnel
• finally followed by a cut scene showing a monster and the question being presented - do you want to meet the monster, murder the monster and some other absurd option.  Now I know I definitely got this one wrong as the game ended.

For me, this game fails because I did could not recognise what the reaction was to my actions. The game gives little in the way of feedback except to warp the player into the next drug induced, psychedelic mind job level or cut scene. 

Players can choose a character at the start of the game, and modify the characters stats.  This is really just filler and serves absolutely no purpose in the game whatsoever.  The narrative is nonsensical, there is no clear goal except to mash buttons and hope that the flashing graphics stop before your head explodes.

I read some reviews about this game in order to see if ANYONE on the planet actually enjoyed it, and was to surprised to see that some people did.  From what I can gather though, it was because it is so unusual.  Maybe I have to be high to appreciate it?!!

Overall: WTF!?!?!?  No point.