This isn't another thread bemoaning lackluster "hardcore" sales on Wii. This isn't a plea for you to spend your dollars in some sort of anti-casual protest. Mushroom Men isn't for everyone. It has a wacky "alternative" art style, platformers are passe, and I know first hand that many people hate Primus/Les Claypool (my friends in highschool threatened to smash my CD player if I put Pork Soda on one more time)
But as a fan of 90's concert poster art, platformers, and Primus, this game had to have been made for me.
One of the key elements in a platformer is exploration, and for exploration to be fun, the game needs to be detailed and visually appealing. This gamefaqs quote sums up how I feel about the detail:
can catch if you take time to look at the backgrounds and objects in the level.
There are even some notes posted on the wall in one level that the level
designers actually bothered to write full text for. One of them I read talks
about aliens stealing our oil and selling it back to use at $150 a barrel. This
is a silly note that shows you the personality of the guys who spent hours of
their lives putting this game together. There are all sorts of these silly
little references to real world topics and brand names and I'll point these
things out from time to time in the walkthrough. Maybe it's just me but those
details really made the game for me.
I'm just glad I paid attention to the Amazon user reviews rather than Metacritic when deciding to buy this game. I love it!
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