Yengwa forwarded E4’s Steamshovel Harry claiming it’s hilarious and genius. He’s a wind-up merchant and so are Steamshovel Harry’s developers. That said, there’s a few things here I’d love to see a developer totally rip off. Gears of War with the Vocoder-treated briefing vocals would be amazing.
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(To be fair, Kieron did tell the truth in the post. Not his fault some of us didn’t know what a wind up merchant was.)
GOTY 2009? I think so!!
The main delay theme reminds me of Sealab 2021’s Grizzlebees episode.
Game of the Hour.
The hour being 2:00 AM, thanks for curing my insomnia!
>_>
:P
I kid. It’s hilarious. Well, not really. But it kind of made me chuckle.
The Spider King will give me nightmares now, thanks.
Thanks for that.
All hail Spider King!
IIIIIIIIINTRO
This game would be 100x better if it taught you as you played using intuitive gameplay rather then the fucking brickface of a tutorial.
and if there was a game.
I might have liked that more if the music hadn’t been quite as obnoxious, and the jokes less obvious. It wasn’t the stupidest idea ever, but the execution was poor.
Without spoiling too much, let’s just say this game is a comment to certain game-flaws.
Myself, I found it really funny from the national anthem and forwards. Its way to mention the state of earth combined with being totally unexpected (but in this case should be) made some big laughs from my side.
And the ending might feel a bit far-fetched initially, but it connects to the whole experience really well when it clicks.
In that 10 minutes, I could have done something useful. Like kick a puppy. I am not amused.
I’m so confused. What about “wind-up merchant” did you moderately-perturbed internet men not get?
This is great. I enjoy the angry comments of those who have not quite cottoned on as much as the game.
Hee hee hee.
Ah, I love the fact that so many people in this thread are failing to get the joke. Turn off your internets, take a walk, clear your head and realise it’s not a game – it’s a genius device to suck 15minutes of life from your soul.
Love it and the music.
I was laughing like hell towards the end of this. I’d worked out what was going on after a few minutes, but the music kept me going til the end.
Not much replay value really, but at least the game comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Hilarious, this had me chuckling right through, the vocals and ‘one last thing before you go’ tickled me pink.
And when I discovered Steamshovel Harry was the Spider Prince! What a narrative haymaker!
Needs more manticore.
Haha, I didn’t play it but had pretty much got the idea from the first comment. The comments on here have brightened up my week no end.
I thought it was hilarious. I pretty much knew what was going on after a minute or too. The music was awesome (I’m a fan of Brad Sucks) and hilarious. I love the way it pissed people off, and how the game has a rating of 33% on the site because most people are too impatient to really understand what is going on.
I’m amazed at how so many people manage to miss the point.
Example:”This game would be 100x better if it taught you as you played using intuitive gameplay rather then the fucking brickface of a tutorial.”
THAT’S THE JOKE
the music is hilarous.
“I wanna make love to physics”
Thank you, this made things feel slightly better
Very funny. It helps that I expected something like this.
It’s interesting that traditionally it is usually you watching the lead character in some comedy being subjected to the maddening interminable thing.
But here it’s you and it’s still funny..
I like the way it sounds like the music is being played in live from somewhere and the musician seems to get bored and just starts riffing. That and the horridly camp sun.
(frankly I thought the Clippy gag was one too many, but you know, critic hat’s there to be worn)
They’ve put the theme tune on the page now:
http://www.e4.com/games/swf/steamshovel-harry/Steamshovel-Harry-theme-by-Brad-Sucks.mp3
and are using quotes taken from this thread!
http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/review.e4
I still fail to see the humour in this. I hope the dev swallows a knife.
They chose to misquote me in the review?
This is the greatest day of my life.
Elaborate troll is elaborate.