Ever have a fucked up night where you wake up from your eternal slumber in the graveyard to your now happy no-longer grieving pink-haired girlfriend, only for the pumpkin asshole buried next to you to also wake up and kidnap her right in front of you? (Who the hell buries a pumpkin? Who held a funeral for it?)

Welcome to Devil Town motherfucker.

Good simplistic tasty Famicom action at the core of it's apple. You move, you jump, you hit things with your adorable little axe and you sometimes have a shotgun. The standard action-platformer affair of it's time, but surprisingly competent in it's philosophy despite the appearance of being a parody. Movement is tight, hitboxes are right, and the most dastardly thing pulled on you is falling into pits and being sent back a bit, which is like a 2 on the scale of NES bullshit with 10 probably being that room in Dirty Harry that softlocks you until you reset. The only thing I could nitpick was the fly boss whose hitbox seemed to be the wings and not his face, sorry I like hitting things in the face.

Functionally sound, and that's probably at least half the reason it has a decent speed run scene along with some of the other comedic elements that never really get old like the girl who walks off having 50 chestbursters fly out of her, or being assaulted by haunted shit coming out of a cursed toilet complete with possessed plunger. Probably an NES/FC game I should be hocking to people more often since it's very beatable, and not as capable of filtering people like a Ninja Gaiden-branded faucet attachment.

It's here that I remember, was it a movie I watched or was I daydreaming just now?

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Remember kids, winners don't use drugs.