play with no need to download today and stumbled across this one game: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; At first, I remembered the AVGN's review on this game, it's hard to forget when you see on someone's face the fear and hatred they feel about something, and, if I don't remember wrong, he didn't show a lot of gameplay on his video review, so I said "Well, could this game be as shitty as the AVGN said? let's find out n_n
Well, at first the game seems fine to me, the music is not that bad, it's like a creepy MIDI organ, but it sounds good. The start is a little odd, you have the credits as any other NES game and then the phrase "A strange case of Dr. Jekyll"... what is that for?... anyway. The start screen, I gotta admit it, I like it as cheesy as it might seem, the title is on big letters and a green blueish hand creeps from the bottom of the screen and you use it to select start or continue if you were playing and died. If you don't do anything you can see Dr. Jekyll working on his lab or something.
As the game starts you see Dr. Jekyll walking out out of his house, the music is fine, the graphics are pretty to see, 8 bit splendor xD, as soon as you get out of the house a woman apears behind you and hits you... what the hell?!... anyway, the game is a side scroller, and basically you have to walk forward avoiding the townspeople that wants to kill you; What's wrong with these people?!! Dr. Jekyll is youst walking happily and everyone wants to kill him, I mean, did he kill someone or steal or what?!! There are people that walk by and hit you, there are women that run to you and hit you, there are kids that shoot you, birds that shit on your head, dogs, cats, gravediggers throwing dirt and the most hedious and horrible ones, some purple wearing dudes that leave bombs to your side, those are the ones to hate! and when you get hit, you get thrown all the back way to the other side of the screen;you jump with A and with B you use a cane like thing, but it doesn't do ANYTHING!! why would someone put a weapon on a game with no use!! it means that some idiot programmers said:
-Hey, let's give him a weapon, like a cane.-Ok, so he will be able to hit people.
-Nope, this weapon will do nothing! awesome right?!!
-Yeah!
Trying to succed on this game is really hard; you have a life meter that measures... you life, and you have a "meter" meter... it's like an "angry" bar that depletes as you receive damage from people, when it depletes completely, you transform into Hyde, the world becomes all horrible and monsters appear, and you have to kill as many as you can to transform back.
The first time you will do what you see on the AVGN video, you start walking, soon you are so beaten by the people that you transform into Hyde and a lightning strikes you and you're dead... fun right?...Playing for a while, I got used to the game, my biggest problems where the purple guys, they are a real pain in the ass, but to bypass them, you have to wait until the sound of the bomb stops and jump, that way, the bomb doesn't reach you; The dogs are horrible too, they attack three times, they run to you, come back and attack you and turn around and attack you again! you have to jump over them to avoid them, but the jumps are slower than the dog, so most of the times, the dog will hit you on his second attack; besides those guys, there is not much
of a challenge on the first level. Ah! and the l ightning thing, it seems that when you transform to hyde, he starts from the beginning of the level, and if he reaches Jekyll's position, then the lightning strikes and you die, don't ask why...I managed to get to the second level or screen, and here it becomes a little harder; there are this stupid birds that fly across the screen and crap on you, also, the dogs and purple guys appear more often, you can get your ass kicked real quick, and worst, th e position of enemies on screen is random, so learning when one comes is not really that useless, but neither that useful.
Well, back to playing Gun on my pc :D
