Crow T. Robot's second cousin crashes his car and shoots a bunch of shit.
I absolutely love this dude's super simplistic animations. The way he clings to wires with one hand and scurries along via his fingers never fails to crack me up. It's ALWAYS the first thing I think of when I remember this game. Some protagonists can't move or attack while crouching, meanwhile Space Funky B.O.B. over here can crouch-walk in circles around those talentless frauds while shooting them in the face with his rifle. I'm really polishing up B.O.B. here with the funny animation, but his movement actually takes a lot of getting used to. It takes a hot second for him to turn around and his jumping is odd and not very good for precise platforming.
Space Funky B.O.B.'s stage design theories also don't really mesh well, it wants you to explore to fill out your inventory, but the time limit gets moronically strict later and sometimes you just flat out get punished for exploring via shit dropping on your head, or plunging into a pit where you take steady damage from hazardous fluids if you don't immediately use your Sonic spring. Fun fact, the animation actually fucks you over when you fall too high into said hazardous fluids and the long-winded animation forces you to take like 70% damage to your health due to your lack of i-frames. The space ship levels are also kinda poop, but they beat the shit out of those fishbowl submarine stages from Earthworm Jim 1. A hot take maybe, I dunno.
I wanted to say B.O.B. feels like something trying to attract Earthworm Jim popularity with it being a quirky dude runnin' around with a gun, but it turns out Earthworm Jim was after this. So that means Earthworm Jim desperately wants to be Space Funky B.O.B.? Makes sense, since Dug Ten Apples (deliberate misspelling) is a poo poo pants wearin' hack.
B.O.B. himself rules, his game is kinda just okay and too damn long (both longplays on Youtube are feature film length). No idea what space weed Famitsu was smoking putting this within breathing distance of Beast Wrestler with their scoring. (Beast Wrestler is horrific, don't play it)
(Parenthesis!)
I was browsing the manual, and apparently Foley Hi-Tech made a shoddy looking costume of B.O.B., which I think is really adorable.
I absolutely love this dude's super simplistic animations. The way he clings to wires with one hand and scurries along via his fingers never fails to crack me up. It's ALWAYS the first thing I think of when I remember this game. Some protagonists can't move or attack while crouching, meanwhile Space Funky B.O.B. over here can crouch-walk in circles around those talentless frauds while shooting them in the face with his rifle. I'm really polishing up B.O.B. here with the funny animation, but his movement actually takes a lot of getting used to. It takes a hot second for him to turn around and his jumping is odd and not very good for precise platforming.
Space Funky B.O.B.'s stage design theories also don't really mesh well, it wants you to explore to fill out your inventory, but the time limit gets moronically strict later and sometimes you just flat out get punished for exploring via shit dropping on your head, or plunging into a pit where you take steady damage from hazardous fluids if you don't immediately use your Sonic spring. Fun fact, the animation actually fucks you over when you fall too high into said hazardous fluids and the long-winded animation forces you to take like 70% damage to your health due to your lack of i-frames. The space ship levels are also kinda poop, but they beat the shit out of those fishbowl submarine stages from Earthworm Jim 1. A hot take maybe, I dunno.
I wanted to say B.O.B. feels like something trying to attract Earthworm Jim popularity with it being a quirky dude runnin' around with a gun, but it turns out Earthworm Jim was after this. So that means Earthworm Jim desperately wants to be Space Funky B.O.B.? Makes sense, since Dug Ten Apples (deliberate misspelling) is a poo poo pants wearin' hack.
B.O.B. himself rules, his game is kinda just okay and too damn long (both longplays on Youtube are feature film length). No idea what space weed Famitsu was smoking putting this within breathing distance of Beast Wrestler with their scoring. (Beast Wrestler is horrific, don't play it)
(Parenthesis!)
I was browsing the manual, and apparently Foley Hi-Tech made a shoddy looking costume of B.O.B., which I think is really adorable.
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Apparently B.O.B. 2 was supposed to be a thing, but don't quote me on that since it's wikipedia.
Do not associate my good friend Crow T. Robot with this man
Aww c'mon Arc, I love both of them!
HylianBran
1 year ago
The best reality.