Hello there, my two readers!
Last friday was my birthday and I can't seem to have received the picture I wished for. What is wrong with you? Well, since I'm at home with granny and the mothership I haven't even spared this blog a single thought...that was until I discovered a little big ridiculous hard game called "I Wanna Be The Guy".
There is lots of videos posted on the web of people screaming their lungs out and tearing off the last straws of hair on their backs in pure rage over how this game is fucking them up.
Let's hear it from the game creator:
I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game's many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.
Using a multiroute layout not unlike a Metroidvania, the game grants a degree of deadly exploration, without those extraneous upgades meant to make life easier. The game provides players with a choice in terms of their deathrate, thanks to a variable difficulty setting that changes the number of save points from frequent to nonexistent. IWBTG is open to all players; knowledge of videogaming history is optional, and may not help against the frequently ironic and always sadistic deathtraps located herein. And so, the question is left up to you...
Do YOU have what it takes to be The Guy?
I died here at least a zillion times!
I've played this fucker of a game for a few days now and made it past the first boss and then even a little bit further. I've played a lot of games. I even consider myself a hardcore gamer. I grew up with Mega Man, Ghosts 'n Goblins and Castlevania and all these other hard games that kept us up for nights. Not the soft pussy EZ-mode games of today, like Halo, Super Mario Galaxy and GTA.
I gotta say, I frickin' LOVE IWBTG! It's so hard it brings tears to my eyes and if you listen carefully you can hear the veins in my head go "snap crackle pop"
Download it if you dare.
Download it if you wanna be THE GUY!
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