VideoGame This game is ASS...uming that it's great, BUT(t)...
I was once a long-time fan of AVGN, so I decided to try and play this little game. It's not bad, but I found it not too great either.
The good points: the pad controls are spot-on, the music is simply amazing, the retro-styled graphics very nice and a good throwback to the 8 and 16-bit era, the references to the show are funny and sometimes very clever. Unfortunately, by trying to stay too close to the source, the developers made something that in places becomes dangerously close to the games the Nerd himself mocked.
The bad points: the obstacles are a bad excuse to increase the difficulty (the instakill blocks are way too cheap, and they're everywhere); I understand that the idea behind this is to make the player feel like he's the Nerd getting enraged by a bad game, but the joke wears thin pretty fast... as does the forced Toilet Humour, which becomes unfunny after the first thirty or so deaths. The geeky references are getting stale as well (seriously, Evil Dead and Mega Man 2 must have become the new Holy Grail for being quoted/referenced to death) and all in all the game becomes repetitive fast (yeah, I know, old-school style and all...). The secondary characters aren't too useful and I hoped they were a little more integrated in the gameplay. So, all the AVGN-inspired ideas ultimately detract a bit from the game instead of improving it.
The ugly points: all this wouldn't be so bad, if there weren't so many other retro-inspired Platform Hell-styled games offered for free out there; TAVGNA is sold at a full price but doesn't offer too much more besides the trademark AVGN humour. This game, as it is, IMHO can be catered only to a doubly hardcore audience: hardcore gamers who also are hardcore AVGN fans who get all the jokes and allusions. I don't think other people are willing to pay that much.
My rating: 6.5/10, FUCKERS!!!
VideoGame Fun game, but it comes too close to falling into traps
AVGN Adventures is a game made by the Angry Video Game Nerd. The game spans across several levels in a mega man approach where you can choose which ever one.
On the surface, this is your typical platformer, and it really is. Like Megaman, the nerd is armed with a zapper that he can shoot his foes with, though the nerd has a more flexbile shooting range. At the end of the stage you fight a move and then move on.
It's biggest strength is no doubt it's music. It is pretty catchy and there is alot of effort put into it. I will give you a sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_QyBRIL_E
It is also a big flavor of love to the nerd series. There is so many references to the nerd videos that half the fun of the game is to try to find them.
The controls feel fine and dandy. I am sure some prefer a control and that is ok, but i found absolutely no problem with controling the Nerd with the keyboard.
However, one of the games main problems that unfortunately in trying to pariody the games that AVGN typically, it sometimes comes extremely close to crossing the thin line between parody and geninue crap. The insta-kill blocks are BS and they are littered through out the stages.
And sometimes there are points to the game where the challenge feels unfair like there might be a few sections that require trial and error and sections that feel like you have to take a hit in order to progress. Don't be surprised if you end up cursing and swearing like the Nerd.
Overall, the AVGN Adventures, while flawed and sometimes ending up too close for comfort to the crappy games the nerd plays, is still a fun experience. Is it work 9.99 on steam? I think so. I hope that in his sequel, they make the gameplay more fair and either reduce the amount of insta-kill blocks or gets rid of them almost entirity