Gon' E-Choo! Best Crack
- singlonglilatehea
- Sep 6, 2019
- 3 min read
About This Game 'Gon' E-Choo!' is a 3 stage, arcade-style game based on the earliest arcade platformers. You play as the otter, trying to collect paper airplanes while avoiding the crafty gator and irate bees. Collect them before they fall into the water, or it's game over! Fight back against the insects with your trusty yoyo or read The Junior Guide to Petty Zoological Facts to power up and turn the tables on the gator. Like the games it is based on, 'Gon' E-Choo!' is easy to learn, but hard to master. Casual players will be treated to tricky AI while master players can use the game's non-random patterns to speed run or reach the game's cryptic kill-screen. The game plays out on a virtual arcade cabinet with mechanical sounds recorded straight from arcade cabinets from the early 80s, complete with a simulated CRT monitor and VR support for maximum immersion. 7aa9394dea Title: Gon' E-Choo!Genre: Action, Indie, SimulationDeveloper:Marc EllisPublisher:Marc EllisRelease Date: 25 Nov, 2015 Gon' E-Choo! Best Crack I consider myself a normal person, but I would totally lick that otterboy's feet.. Those with a voracious appetite for classic arcade games will eat this up, but others might find it a bit hard to swallow. If you're hungry for some old-school quarter-munching action, this game costs less than a bite to eat and is something you can sink your teeth into, so it'll give you something to chew on for a while.. This is a cool little game that's worth getting if you have a dk2. The arcade game within the game is pretty challenging as well (those flies must be on roids). I'm not sure why I'm trapped in a creepy basement room and why I have telekinetic powers. Probably for the safety of others. Hopefully this gets explained one day.Definitely something to have when you want to show off your dk2 to friends.I got it on sale for .99 but even at 2.00 its worth picking up.. The Good:It's a fun-ish formula, peppy music, and a very interesting hub background.The game makes you learn without a tutorial, just like the games of Ye Olde Video Gamme Infancee. It's a plus if you dislike handholding tutorials, but a minus if you have a hard time learning as you go.Otter protagonist. Just, otter.Cute animations.Awesome comic strip to read for lore and immersion.The Bad:Game tries to pass itself off as a "Wowie, look at us! We're super famous." in its universe when I doubt its ability to have more than a cult following at best.Gator game too strong???Absolutely no explanation as to why you're in what appears to be a storeroom. Are you a fan who curates Gon' E-Choo paraphernalia? Are you just some weirdo who walked in and decided it was okay to play this random arcade machine?The Ugly:Oh my word, the sensitivity on this is WAY TOO HIGH. I set it to lowest in options and put my DPI on lowest it could go, and I STILL was flying about. Is this because it's a VR-focused game and head movements are supposed to be minimal?Thankfully, you have the option to skip using the hub entirely and go straight to the game, without any "trappings of reality", but a lot of the magic is misssing when you do that.The Verdict:Come on, its got an otter protagonist. How could you NOT play this?In all seriousness, for its price, it's got decent gameplay, good story, fun music, and a fun level design. A real gem you should consider picking up if you've got $2 to spare. If you invest in the badge it's highly likely you'll make your money back with minimal profit.. Okay, I've played a couple of games, and looked around the back room, and read through the tumblr archives of the comic to the beginning, for good measure. My initial opinion of the game itself is that it plays a great deal like Nintendo's "Popeye" from 1980. You pick up paper airplanes while running from the gator and killing flies with your yoyo, and once per life you can pick up the power-up comic book(?) and devour him instead. Picking up all the airplanes lets you advance to the next lavel.The back room in which the game is situated is an interesting device in itself. It's a dirty back room that looks like a workshop, given the bins of parts and pile of speakers. I'm wondering if there's eventually going to be an easter egg that lets you open that door and see what's beyond. Perhaps something having to do with the letters that appear when you retrieve each airplane.Overall, worth a look for $2, and it'll be interesting to see what'll be coming in the future.
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