Before Devolver Delayed 2023 I had never heard of this series, their “one more thing” was saying this title had DLC “available everywhere” so I checked to see if it was on GamePass.
I read some brief descriptions of it online “WarioWare meets Point & Clicks”. Sounded great to me, maybe if this was good fun I could check out the previous entries!
So as I said, before Devolver Delayed I had never heard of McPixel and now I wish I hadn’t.
The concept itself seemed good on paper. It should be a laugh but the answers of the puzzles were usually completely nonsensical or not following rules established previously. This nonsense I’m sure is meant to add to the hundreds of “gags” this game has but the humour was so bad.
Repeating segments over and over until you click the correct thing can only hold its charm for so long and whilst I enjoyed a little bit of the music and there were a couple of great bits of pixel art the rest of the presentation was a bit poor. No sound effects for most of the game was a major strange point that had me checking menus to see if I’d turned them off.
Regarding the humour, I do find farts funny. However, pissing and farting jokes one after the other, kicking all the NPCs, these things lose any comedic qualities they have if that is all there is.
I won’t lie and say I never laughed but the hit rate was so abysmally low it wasn’t worth the rest of the time I had to spend playing the game to enjoy those very rare chuckles.
There will be some folk who play this and they will be absolutely wetting themselves and I guess, good for them, however I did not and if your game is mostly jokes over anything else then it’s a failure to me.
I read some brief descriptions of it online “WarioWare meets Point & Clicks”. Sounded great to me, maybe if this was good fun I could check out the previous entries!
So as I said, before Devolver Delayed I had never heard of McPixel and now I wish I hadn’t.
The concept itself seemed good on paper. It should be a laugh but the answers of the puzzles were usually completely nonsensical or not following rules established previously. This nonsense I’m sure is meant to add to the hundreds of “gags” this game has but the humour was so bad.
Repeating segments over and over until you click the correct thing can only hold its charm for so long and whilst I enjoyed a little bit of the music and there were a couple of great bits of pixel art the rest of the presentation was a bit poor. No sound effects for most of the game was a major strange point that had me checking menus to see if I’d turned them off.
Regarding the humour, I do find farts funny. However, pissing and farting jokes one after the other, kicking all the NPCs, these things lose any comedic qualities they have if that is all there is.
I won’t lie and say I never laughed but the hit rate was so abysmally low it wasn’t worth the rest of the time I had to spend playing the game to enjoy those very rare chuckles.
There will be some folk who play this and they will be absolutely wetting themselves and I guess, good for them, however I did not and if your game is mostly jokes over anything else then it’s a failure to me.