| Who's Fat Lou ? | Mediola / Simon & Schuster Interactive | 1996 | |
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This is a very rare rap point 'n click adventure where you needed to complete tasks to get all the way to the end to fight the evil "El Guapo" using the "Guapotron". The game features voice acting and some rather edgy humor. Nominally targeted at kids 14 to 18, it is so aggressively hip that playing it can be an honestly frightening experience. Even MTV fails to overload the senses as much as this bizarre but colorful game. Created by Italian designers for an American audience, but the hyper-disgusting humor and jagged rendering seem closer to Japanese styles of animation. In a dank, gray future (where kids, at the dinner table, cry out “Oh no, Mom, gray crap again!”), a band of graffiti artists gets hassled by the cops. The game immediately veers into surrealism, throwing conceits like “narrative” out the window. Move around a park (a top view of a map leads to single-frame environments), confronting creatures like a bird whose acidic feces will burn you to death, a crazed ax murderer who screams “Mommy made me wear her panties on my head!”, and a seductive woman who happens to be graffiti on a wall. Try to solve tricky puzzles under tight time constraints (a major understatement). Too many animation sequences relegate the player to passive watching for long minutes, and the game's macabre design and disconcerting sense of humor are more disturbing than funny, but there's no denying that this CD-ROM is unique. | ||
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