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    'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys

    'Splosion Man Is A Cool Guy Made Of Explosions

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    Image of Shawnrw222 Shawnrw222
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    The co-op in this game is extremely fun, but like any platformer there are some cheap deaths. Even the camera kills in the later levels, but my god if it isn't a blast.

    Hard as hell, though.
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    Image of urban_ryoga urban_ryoga
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    "Certainly one of the most original, even if all you do is explode."

    We are done professionally. It is 'splode, not explode. Get it right.
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    spiderweb1986 promoted this comment Edited by urban_ryoga at 08/01/09 11:54 AM urban_ryoga was starred urban_ryoga was unstarred
    Image of Rendo Rendo
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    loved the game. plus, and i know it seems kinda silly, i liked the fact that this $10 game gave me a free gamer pic and free theme; something my $60 games charge me for.
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    Image of Jonman Jonman
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    It's a great little game, with a steep learning curve. The joy of it is that the difficult starts off very low, so even novice gamers can have a bash at the first 10 level or so. The long-time lovers of platform games have lots to enjoy here - while the learning curve is steep, it has few points that you can't clear after a handul of attempts.

    The real takeaway from the game should be how much personality and polished presentation you can inject into a $10 downloadable title. It puts a lot of it's XBLA competitors to shame.
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    Image of Gaunt Gaunt
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    I love this game. I have had to use the suicide option twice when I fell through some scenery into perpetual freefall, but that aside this is an awesome platformer.

    Worth a mention is the countdown button (left trigger) which during multiplayer will bring up a three second countdown so you can both splode off each other at exactly the same time for double splodes. This beats the hell out of trying to compensate for latency.
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    Image of Krakin Krakin
    08/01/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    The ending of this game rivals Portal.

    There, I said it.
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    BlueBeard promoted this comment Krakin was starred Krakin was unstarred
    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    08/01/09

    @Krakin: I think you just sold a few more downloads with that statement.
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    Image of Dr Drew In The Hizzaaaay Dr Drew In The Hizzaaaay
    07/31/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    How could you have problems with the first boss? I beat him on like my third try. : /
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    07/31/09

    @Dr Drew In The Hizzaaaay: Yeah, he's a wuss. The bosses are great stuff. Nothing terribly innovative, but just good designs and patterns. I love missiles!
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    Image of Primer_Grey Primer_Grey
    07/31/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    Everybody loves donuts!
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    Kobun promoted this comment Primer_Grey was starred Primer_Grey was unstarred
    Image of Kobun Kobun
    07/31/09

    @Primer_Grey:
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    Image of Ueziel Ueziel
    07/31/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    I actually really really hate Splosion Man as a character. His design is just really unappealing to me.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    07/31/09

    @Ueziel: Bad Ueziel! Bad Curse_Lily! His design grows on you. He's quite insane. Sorta reminds me of Earthworm Jim in a way.
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    Image of Ueziel Ueziel
    07/31/09

    @Kobun: Yeah, but Jim had some actual personality and things to say/do besides being crazy. He's like Freakazoid without the funny but with explosions.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    07/31/09

    @Ueziel: Funny you mention Freakazoid, because Splosion Man mouthing off "We're done, professionally!" and "Get to the choppa!" are exactly the kinds of things he'd do if still alive today. :p
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    07/31/09

    @Ueziel: i totally agree, that was one of the couple of gripes i had with the game. splosion man has a sonic the hedgehog type vibe... but even that series wouldnt have been as well received if sonic didnt look cool.

    the game is so cool and the lead character deserved an equally cool design.
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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    07/31/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    We now have two painfully hard platformers with hilarious songs in them: Skullmonkeys ("Bonus Room") and 'Splosion Man (Doughnut song).

    I hope this list becomes longer... as long as the games don't get as ball-slammingly hard as Skullmonkeys was.
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    Image of liquid_kore liquid_kore
    07/31/09

    @ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: Oh man Skullmonkeys was such a love hate game. Everything about the presentation was great but the gameplay just sucked so bad. I kinda wanna hear this Doughnut song now...
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    Image of Primer_Grey Primer_Grey
    07/31/09

    @ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: Not gunna lie. That bonus room song scared the shit out of me the first time.
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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    07/31/09

    @Primer_Grey: Haha, that scream was fantastic. My kingdom for the Imaginarium soundtrack. (Neverhood, Skullmonkeys, AND Boombots... :D)
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    Image of KingDavid73 KingDavid73
    07/31/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys
    I only played the demo, so I can't fully review the game, but I thought it was decent. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible. It was funny and kinda fun, but nothing incredible, so I didn't buy it.
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    Image of plebeianprint plebeianprint
    07/31/09

    @KingDavid73: This is one game where the demo didn't do a very good job of representing the game as a whole, as the early levels were easy and didn't squeeze your brain like a wet sponge to wring out every iota of coordination and puzzle solvent.
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    Image of Curse lily Curse lily
    06/10/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Is A Cool Guy Made Of Explosions
    completely unrelated to this game but


    Wasn't there a announcement of a game just like this a couple of month ago the characters look like a mix of mega man and cpt.falcon and he use explosions as a mean to destroy the enemy?

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    Image of paradox paradox
    06/10/09

    @Curse_Lily:Explodemon
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    Image of Curse lily Curse lily
    06/10/09

    @paradox: @Zeikcied: Yeah that's it thanks
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    Image of Fullforce Fullforce
    06/10/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Is A Cool Guy Made Of Explosions
    I think kooky, slapstick 2D platformers with entertaining quirky characters have been missing from our gaming repertoire as of late. In fact the last game that I can think of like this is Earthworm Jim...


    I'm certainly interested in this.

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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    06/10/09

    @Fullforce: Ah Earthworm Jim. Good times, good times.
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    06/10/09

    In reply to 'Splosion Man Is A Cool Guy Made Of Explosions
    Does whatever a 'splosion can?


    Note: Under no circumstances, should this 'superhero' ever be allowed to rescue me.

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    Image of El-Suave El-Suave
    02/24/09

    In reply to Hothead Brings Braid To Mac, The Maw To Windows
    I hope both games will be coming to PSN, too.
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