By Alec Meer on October 19th, 2009 at 9:39 am.
More concept platforming from indieland, in this quickie tale of a pill-crazed cartoon junkie roaming surrealistic lands for his next fix. It’s a deft twist upon the Mario et al formula, in that you’re trying to avoid rather than collect spinning, gleaming objects – for every pill you jump through, the screen distorts and shakes further. Sounds easy, if only yer man wasn’t so determined to fight against you…
Like Kieron towards AD&D manuals or me towards plastic robots, he heads inexorably,incessantly towards his unhealthy desires, with your frantic button-mashing only just managing to divert him from his intended path. Innocents will be harmed en route [ALLEGORY], unless you can steer him away with timely jumps and ducks.
Brief but effective, tongue-in-cheek stuff. It’s like driving a shopping trolley with a broken wheel, only with nauseating double/triple/quadruple vision, not accidentally bumping the heels of a grumpy pensioner, as the dread consequence.
Found via Play This Thing!.
19/10/2009 at 09:43 Okami says:
I still don’t see why I should avoid getting those pills. They sound delicious…
19/10/2009 at 10:01 army of none says:
This game was maddening, appropriately.
19/10/2009 at 10:07 alset says:
It would have been exponentially funnier if the main character was Louis and said “PEELS HERE!” whenever he ate one. Fact!
19/10/2009 at 10:46 Rane2k says:
“Grabbin´ pills.”
19/10/2009 at 10:50 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
I want to get those motherfuckin’ pills of the motherfuckin’ plane…oh wait..
19/10/2009 at 14:07 mrrobsa says:
Decent. I had an idea involving wrestling control away from an unruly avatar, though it would be less about retro spike jumps and insta-death and more about love and responsibility, yeah?
Also L4D has conditioned me to gobble pills so avoiding them in this game just feels wrong!
Pills Here!
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19/10/2009 at 15:00 Doctor Doc says:
As the readme said, that wasn’t very enjoyable. At least it was short.
19/10/2009 at 15:04 Dax says:
Not bad, but why on earth is jump “s”? What would have been wrong with sticking with WSAD or the arrow keys but instead they chose to mix and match a load of random button combinations. Weird
19/10/2009 at 17:04 Serondal says:
Bah, Max Payne was chowing down pain pills before L4D was even a concept.
19/10/2009 at 20:37 Rei Onryou says:
Valve are right when they say its not good to take control from the player. Owie, my head!
20/10/2009 at 14:57 Mitthrawn says:
Best I could do was 4 pills. Anyone else?
20/10/2009 at 14:57 Mitthrawn says:
Best I could do was 4 pills eaten by addict. Anyone else?