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I respect that this game TRIED very hard, but in the end it was just not good. Not good at all.

You play as a cranky one-wheeled robot with a broken engine. However, it has the power of gravity and magnets: If you strain downwards on a slope, you go downward fast. If you hold a button as you approach metal things, you cling to them. And if you hold the "motor" button, you sort of futz along at a mild rate.

Tragedy strikes as Grumpy Wheel Robot falls out of his spaceship, so it chases the ship across rolling dunes and hills and valleys and such.

Unfortunately... at high speeds the robot is near-uncontrollable, the camera is constantly fighting you for permission to embed itself in the scenery or up the robot's wheel well, anything involving precise motions is gonna require you to swing all the way back around to complete once you blow past it at 90MPH, and in spite of all this I still finished the game in a little over 90 minutes.

It's like downing an extremely condensed shot of The Internet's Opinion Of Modern-Era Sonic The Hedgehog.

I just... wow I did NOT like this game.

Date: 2018-02-10 04:08 am (UTC)
kjorteo: Confused Bulbasaur portrait from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. (Bulbasaur: Confused)
From: [personal profile] kjorteo
And yet you beat it.

Date: 2018-02-10 04:39 am (UTC)
kjorteo: Scan from an old Super Mario Bros. comic, of King Koopa facing the camera and looking at his wits' end. (Koopa: Fed up)
From: [personal profile] kjorteo
I noped out of MANOS in ten.

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