Nonsensical and sparkling, Pu-Li-Ra-La is a beat-em-up revolving around spells that summon giant microwaves, enemies that lunge at the player with tusk-like pelvic appendages, and a really addled evil puppet.
Somewhere between Cho Aniki and Golden Axe, this game will keep you engaged with sudden dadaist visuals, while offering a combat experience that's simple but extremely well balanced, forcing players to be smarter about positioning and magic use timing than most beat-em-ups require.
I absolutely recommend it to beat-em-up devotees, and consider it a must for those obsessed with the kind of sparkly cotton candy visuals displayed in other games of this nature like Harmful Park or Stretch Panic. It's beautiful, trashy art that will entertain for the exact handful of hours it works to earn.
Somewhere between Cho Aniki and Golden Axe, this game will keep you engaged with sudden dadaist visuals, while offering a combat experience that's simple but extremely well balanced, forcing players to be smarter about positioning and magic use timing than most beat-em-ups require.
I absolutely recommend it to beat-em-up devotees, and consider it a must for those obsessed with the kind of sparkly cotton candy visuals displayed in other games of this nature like Harmful Park or Stretch Panic. It's beautiful, trashy art that will entertain for the exact handful of hours it works to earn.
The stampede attack in this is JUST like Revolutionary Girl Utena episode 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feels like the video game version of a really good short film. Basically just cool images and sounds but that's really all you need sometimes!
It's very funny that in the now 100 games that i have logged on here this game that is very well known to be short and baby easy was what made me resort to cheats in the final act. idk man It's like 3am as I'm writing this and i had kinda save stated myself into a corner so i just enabled infinite magic and lives and blasted through that last bit lol. This game is cool enough where i do feel like playing trough it proper at some point tho. Maybe on co-op.
Looked at what else this studio had made and saw that they made a wrestling eroge for the PC-98 lol. And also a baseball dating sim??????? Why are sports themed vns a recurring thing in their catalog???????
Feels like the video game version of a really good short film. Basically just cool images and sounds but that's really all you need sometimes!
It's very funny that in the now 100 games that i have logged on here this game that is very well known to be short and baby easy was what made me resort to cheats in the final act. idk man It's like 3am as I'm writing this and i had kinda save stated myself into a corner so i just enabled infinite magic and lives and blasted through that last bit lol. This game is cool enough where i do feel like playing trough it proper at some point tho. Maybe on co-op.
Looked at what else this studio had made and saw that they made a wrestling eroge for the PC-98 lol. And also a baseball dating sim??????? Why are sports themed vns a recurring thing in their catalog???????
A really wild and surreal beat ‘em up, it's actually very fair for an arcade game and overall fun if simple, but the real selling point are the crazy inventive settings and designs. There's a point to PuLiRuLa, I think, one buried a bit underneath the poor translation and the game's short length, but I think it's very fascinating anyways.
Seventeenth GOTW finished for 2022. This one gets some points for wackiness and just down right what-the-f*ckery, but it really wasn't that enjoyable to play. Clunky controls, weird spaces of absolutely no music or sound, and poor descriptions/translations don't help its case. Crazy short, so there's that...
Joguei a versão japonesa. O texto é muito rápido, é cheio de kanji que não conheço e não tem furigana, então não fui capaz de entender absolutamente nada além de um "sumimasen" aleatório lá no final. Mas tenho certeza que mesmo que eu tivesse sido capaz de ler e traduzir tudo, continuaria não entendendo nada. Que viagem esse jogo.