Got a small doujin game to review today. It's Miku Rasher based on the vocaloid character and internet icon, Hatsune Miku. I'd recommend the Hatsune Miku psp game too, but that's just me drooling all over Miku after seeing her booty-shakin action in "World is Mine." Back to Miku Rasher; It's free, cute, and fun. Unfortunately, it's so simple that there's not much to review, but, let's break it down.
The music and sound effects are really old school. It has that famicom feel. 8 bit background music featuring Levan Polkka and familiar famicom blip-blips. The creators obviously wanted to make things look and feel like a famicom/nes game and they've succeeded in this aspect.
The graphics, just like the music. The graphics are really reminiscent of simple NES/Famicom titles like Pipeline, Joust and Battle City. Nothing to mince words on, really. Check out the screenshots, they tell everything. The animations are just what you'd expect of famicom titles. Very limited animation but with smooth sprite movement.
Now let's take a look at the gameplay. Sorry if I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but once again, the game feels like something right out of the nes/famicom era. Even the level of difficulty.
The first otion is the A mode game. It starts easy enough but gets impossibly hard in the later stages and just like a typical famicom game; THE CONTINUE IS A LIE! That said, I like it. It's like a variation of Balloon Fight. There are only two buttons plus the arrow keys for the controls. Holding down Z or pressing it repeatedly boosts Miku up so she can fly. YOu can control her flight with the left and right arrow keys. Pressing X fires some kind of short-range projectile (is that her trademark leek?) that engulfs the enemy in a bubble. YOu have to literally burst their bubble after trapping them in it by bumping into them. Coming into contact with an "unbubbled" enemy means instant death. Enemies engulfed in bubbles escape after some time depending on the type of enemy and they get faster and harder to avoid/hit every time they escape. The objective of each level is to kill all the enemies. This pretty much sums up the gameplay. I'm not sure if there's a bonus level or boss fights. Haven't played this game to death... yet.
B mode game is almost the same as A mode except that you can fall into holes for instant death as well and the enemies are more aggressive. Tutorial mode just shows you the game in action with a graphical representation of the controls in order to demonstrate the functions of each button.
Over-all, I'd say not bad, not bad at all. This is the type of game I'd recommend to old school gamers - specifically, those who like the more simplistic games from the era of nintendo 8-bit dominance. It has a limited lifespan, but paraphrasing Dracula from Castelevania SOTN: "The same could be said of all NES era games." Well, maybe not all of them, but there were lots of similar arcadey games for the NES. Of course, if you like Hatsune Miku, I don't need to tell you to get this game. Download it now. (It's only 1.3 MB) The screenshots used here are from the game's official homepage.
Publisher: Yoshiba Works
Publisher's homepage: http://www.yoshibaworks.com/mcrasher/
The music and sound effects are really old school. It has that famicom feel. 8 bit background music featuring Levan Polkka and familiar famicom blip-blips. The creators obviously wanted to make things look and feel like a famicom/nes game and they've succeeded in this aspect.
The graphics, just like the music. The graphics are really reminiscent of simple NES/Famicom titles like Pipeline, Joust and Battle City. Nothing to mince words on, really. Check out the screenshots, they tell everything. The animations are just what you'd expect of famicom titles. Very limited animation but with smooth sprite movement.
Now let's take a look at the gameplay. Sorry if I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but once again, the game feels like something right out of the nes/famicom era. Even the level of difficulty.
The first otion is the A mode game. It starts easy enough but gets impossibly hard in the later stages and just like a typical famicom game; THE CONTINUE IS A LIE! That said, I like it. It's like a variation of Balloon Fight. There are only two buttons plus the arrow keys for the controls. Holding down Z or pressing it repeatedly boosts Miku up so she can fly. YOu can control her flight with the left and right arrow keys. Pressing X fires some kind of short-range projectile (is that her trademark leek?) that engulfs the enemy in a bubble. YOu have to literally burst their bubble after trapping them in it by bumping into them. Coming into contact with an "unbubbled" enemy means instant death. Enemies engulfed in bubbles escape after some time depending on the type of enemy and they get faster and harder to avoid/hit every time they escape. The objective of each level is to kill all the enemies. This pretty much sums up the gameplay. I'm not sure if there's a bonus level or boss fights. Haven't played this game to death... yet.
B mode game is almost the same as A mode except that you can fall into holes for instant death as well and the enemies are more aggressive. Tutorial mode just shows you the game in action with a graphical representation of the controls in order to demonstrate the functions of each button.
Over-all, I'd say not bad, not bad at all. This is the type of game I'd recommend to old school gamers - specifically, those who like the more simplistic games from the era of nintendo 8-bit dominance. It has a limited lifespan, but paraphrasing Dracula from Castelevania SOTN: "The same could be said of all NES era games." Well, maybe not all of them, but there were lots of similar arcadey games for the NES. Of course, if you like Hatsune Miku, I don't need to tell you to get this game. Download it now. (It's only 1.3 MB) The screenshots used here are from the game's official homepage.
Publisher: Yoshiba Works
Publisher's homepage: http://www.yoshibaworks.com/mcrasher/
