I thought I was playing a bit too much quality on my NES lately, so I figured I'd go ahead and give this piece of shit a spin, and my what a glorious piece of shit it is!
The first thing you're going to notice is how fucking terrible the graphics look, Garfield's jumping animation looks absolutely laughable and a bunch of the backgrounds look like something you could've drawn in MS Paint with the line tool. Garfield is also salmon colored instead of orange, and for some reason Odie is half his size.
The second thing you're going to notice is your absolutely pathetic attack, which is a 1-frame kick that hits maybe one or two pixels from within the lower half of your own sprite supposedly MAYBE allegedly. It's actually safer to kick while jumping since it seems to make your hitbox smaller, and with turbo you can attack very quickly since there's no actual animation for kicking in mid-air. Unfortunately, it's super risky to turbo in the air since enemies can still somehow hit you even while doing this, which I found out the hard way. You also go into this "crawl mode" instead of couching, because Garfield is well known for going around on all fours like a normal cat. By the way, if you jump while in your "crawl mode" you can't kick in mid-air. I'm sure they intended that.
People usually hate the high knockback that tend to plague a lot of action games from this generation, this game has very little knockback. You may think "wow that sounds great", but in reality this is absolutely atrocious because of your complete lack of i-frames after taking a hit. This means your entire health bar could be wiped out in a split-second from either a fast moving enemy, or you yourself moving too quickly with this game's version of the high-speed shoes from Sonic the Hedgehog. There will be plenty of times where you'll be gingerly lumbering to the right only for some rat bastard or a bird to come flying in out of nowhere, and hit you multiples times for massive damage or even have Garfield suddenly drop dead with the music going silent for peak comedy.
This game has power-ups you can pick up so you don't need to use your suicidal kick, but for whatever reason the master-class devs over at Mars thought they should be hidden until you move over them. Not only is this system fucking stupid, but it's downright abominable when one of the power-ups you can collect takes away from your HP. This same system also just grinds the entire gameplay to a halt where you're jumping all over the place trying to find the key that goes to the door which leads to the next section of the stage.
I could sit here for probably five more paragraphs talking about all the stupid shit in this game, but you seriously need to experience it yourself. This one is an all-time dumpster fire that can hang with the likes of Mystery of Convoy.
The first thing you're going to notice is how fucking terrible the graphics look, Garfield's jumping animation looks absolutely laughable and a bunch of the backgrounds look like something you could've drawn in MS Paint with the line tool. Garfield is also salmon colored instead of orange, and for some reason Odie is half his size.
The second thing you're going to notice is your absolutely pathetic attack, which is a 1-frame kick that hits maybe one or two pixels from within the lower half of your own sprite supposedly MAYBE allegedly. It's actually safer to kick while jumping since it seems to make your hitbox smaller, and with turbo you can attack very quickly since there's no actual animation for kicking in mid-air. Unfortunately, it's super risky to turbo in the air since enemies can still somehow hit you even while doing this, which I found out the hard way. You also go into this "crawl mode" instead of couching, because Garfield is well known for going around on all fours like a normal cat. By the way, if you jump while in your "crawl mode" you can't kick in mid-air. I'm sure they intended that.
People usually hate the high knockback that tend to plague a lot of action games from this generation, this game has very little knockback. You may think "wow that sounds great", but in reality this is absolutely atrocious because of your complete lack of i-frames after taking a hit. This means your entire health bar could be wiped out in a split-second from either a fast moving enemy, or you yourself moving too quickly with this game's version of the high-speed shoes from Sonic the Hedgehog. There will be plenty of times where you'll be gingerly lumbering to the right only for some rat bastard or a bird to come flying in out of nowhere, and hit you multiples times for massive damage or even have Garfield suddenly drop dead with the music going silent for peak comedy.
This game has power-ups you can pick up so you don't need to use your suicidal kick, but for whatever reason the master-class devs over at Mars thought they should be hidden until you move over them. Not only is this system fucking stupid, but it's downright abominable when one of the power-ups you can collect takes away from your HP. This same system also just grinds the entire gameplay to a halt where you're jumping all over the place trying to find the key that goes to the door which leads to the next section of the stage.
I could sit here for probably five more paragraphs talking about all the stupid shit in this game, but you seriously need to experience it yourself. This one is an all-time dumpster fire that can hang with the likes of Mystery of Convoy.
2 Comments
I think I handled four in-game days until the music got super annoying at one point, then I just watched someone else play through the entire thing.
Weatherby
2 years ago