![]() But if you’re using the machine gun? Hoo boy, you can keep it going for as long as your bullets last.Īnd, believe me, you can make those bullets last. If you’re using the pistol and shooting as quickly as you can, the super won’t last all that long. The super state also changes the spread of your attacks. But the meter reduces more slowly while you’re doing damage, meaning that you can keep it going for a while as long as you’re able to attack fast enough. Once you activate it, you become invincible and do extra damage. The super is even more useful than it sounds though. After attacking enough, it’ll fill up and you can open a massive can of whoop-ass on everything around you. This is furthered by Mighty Goose‘s super meter. ![]() The goose can take four hits before dying, but enemies routinely drop healing items, so you can get back on your feet even if you’re in seriously dire straits. It’s challenging enough that you’ll die if you get too sloppy, but forgiving enough that you don’t have to be an ace at the genre to see the credits. That’s mostly because the game’s difficulty stays at a pretty consistent 6/10 for the duration. These types of games have always had some memorize-y sections, sure, but they feel out of place in Mighty Goose. The only way to not get hit by them is to either have super fast reflexes, or more likely, to memorize where they spawn. One level, for instance, has spiders drop on you from above. I found that the levels themselves are typically well designed, although I had some issues occasionally. Some levels end in boss battles, as well. The controls are also excellent, as they’re responsive and feel just as good as the games Mighty Goose apes. The levels themselves are colorful, varied, and fun to move around in. ![]() There are also some vehicles that the goose can ride, such as a tank, a mech, and a speeder bike. Once you’re out of bullets, you go back to the pistol. Once you pick up a weapon, whether it be a shotgun, machine gun, or missile launcher, you’ll have a certain amount of shots you can fire. Mighty Goose uses Metal Slug rules for these. As you murder everything in your path, enemies will drop weapon pickups. Honk if you, wait, I just told you not to do that It’s a run-and-gun shooter you know how those work. Once the level starts, you move to the right while shooting everything in your path. You pick from one of Mighty Goose‘s levels from a map that’s presented as traveling to different locations in the goose’s ship. But you don’t want to have the honk equipped because it doesn’t do a goddamn thing. ![]() Speaking of honks, you can make the goose honk by pressing the special button, but only if you have the honk equipped. How could I not mention the groovy one himself? It’s all silly, and sometimes there are random close-ups of the goose making a ridiculous face in the middle of a level. What? I’m talking about a game starring an anthropomorphic animal who shoots guns in space. While chasing down leads, he goes toe to toe with a crow that made me think of Psy-Crow from Earthworm Jim. Our titular hero is an intergalactic bounty hunter chasing after some bad space dude whose name I already forgot. It’s not especially lengthy and doesn’t do anything to try and move the genre forward, but it’s an enjoyable action game in its own right. It isn’t nearly as difficult as either of those, but it successfully captures the feel and balls-to-the-wall action that they had in spades. Mighty Goose is a throwback to games like Contra and Metal Slug. You know how the saying goes: everything is better with memes! Or was it that nothing is better with memes? Either way, somebody made a run-and-gun game starring a goose, and now I’m going to talk about it for several paragraphs. ![]()
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Also, instead of taking place in NY City, the setting is now in Rome where he and his girlfriend, Georgia (Sheila Frazier), from the first one have settled. Perhaps because of the criticism of the glamorizing of drug life in the previous one, O'Neal's Priest character is totally out of the business (though that was his intent from that first film) but gets roped into a more, perhaps, worthy one in dealing with guns for a country that wants independence. Actually, he helped think of the story with the resulting screenplay by noted author Alex Haley. ![]() I'd like to see the original 'Superfly'.Īfter becoming a star with Super Fly, actor Ron O'Neal decided to co-write and direct the sequel. Ron O'Neal's ability came through more in the second half, with some good though violent scenes where Priest had to use both intelligence and physical ability. Sheila Frasier did a good job as Georgia. But when he gave his big speech to Priest about why Priest should care about Umbia (I'm guessing at the spelling), THAT was the Roscoe Lee Browne I expected. So I was surprised that he seemed distracted by his French accent, and not as talented as usual. Roscoe Lee Browne is such an excellent actor. Scenes of African culture about halfway through the movie, including women carrying baskets on their heads, and people doing local crafts-these added to the movie as well. I enjoyed hearing Priest say things like 'Can you dig it?' The music added to the movie, especially where there was what sounded like a traditional African performance mixed with 70s American soul. I did like Jordan Gaines, who was funny, and I wouldn't have recognized him had I not seen Robert Guillaume's name in the credits. I know they were playing poker, and that's about it. ![]() The first half of the movie didn't make a lot of sense, possibly because I didn't know the characters. As it turns out, he wants Priest to help him. Sonko is in the room when one of the rebel leaders is informed about what has happened. A group of rebels in an African desert gets ambushed, their weapons are taken, and the men are killed. When I saw the Colosseum, I knew where it was. I didn't know where this was set, and I had no knowledge of the original 'Superfly', but I was curious. The movie opens with scenes of what turns out to be Rome. With his beautiful voice it's easy to see why, for a while, he played the lead in the play "Phantom". By the way, one thing to look for if you do see the movie is Robert Guillaume singing near the beginning. It's a shame, as the plot wasn't a bad idea-it just was so slow and dull when it should have been anything but. As a result, the film is certainly watchable but not a whole lot more. Also, I agree that the soundtrack was incredibly disappointing, as the original film had one of the best blaxsploitation scores ever-second only to the one from "Shaft". It was clearly a slow film and could easily have been tightened up quite a bit. I do agree with one of the reviews that complained that it took so long for this plot to develop. I appreciated, however, that the character finally showed some conscience and a sense of purpose (to quote Steven Martin from "The Jerk"-'I found my purpose!!'). This, I'm sure, is a big disappointment to fans who want the confident and ultra-bad anti-hero-not this confused and more likable guy. Finally, Priest has a purpose to life and his performance throughout the film is very restrained and low-key. However, he is also vaguely dissatisfied and despite his repeatedly saying he's only out to make money and take care of himself and his woman, he is eventually persuaded to help a man (Roscoe Lee Browne) in his attempt to start a revolution in his small African nation against the colonial powers-he wants Priest to smuggle in weapons for their struggle. Here, the film finds him living the good life in Europe-he's retired and financially secure. You see, in the first film, Priest was completely amoral-and made his fortune selling dope and women. However, this time he's quite different-a kindler, gentler sort of Priest. Priest (Ron O'Neal) is back in a sequel to the hit "Superfly". ![]() ![]() ![]() They are still needed to keep the app free, thank you for your understanding. Listen to beautifully recorded nature sounds now, completely free of charge! You don't need to waste your time searching, trying to find the most soothing tones or melodies because “Relaxing Sounds” has them all! 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Before that fight, my suit integrity was at %230? or something, I had an astronaut artefact which revives you once when you die, and activated a reconstructor in last biome which saves everthing if you die, in case everything goes sideways. My health bar didn't go below %80 in third boss fight, thanks to my life leeching weapon. When you do 3-4 runs like this, you become invulnerable. Spend ether in the begining of your run, save some for reconstructor if you want(it needs 6). You should take your time and enter every door(and every biome) possible for much better artifacts/items(to add them to rng pool), health upgrades, better guns/upgrade gun traits etc. Completing first three biomes takes roughly 2-3 hours if you take out some of the bosses(you can skip boss fights if you beat them, and you can directly go to 3 biome through biome 1 if you want, after you defeat second boss). I feel this game would have benefitted from a proper level design and progression system akin to Metroid Prime but it seems it is really just a rogue-like arcade shooter with not much in the way of depth beyond the heavily skill-based gameplay.Ĭlick to expand.Haha, those were my first reactions too. The difficulty I do not mind too much but dying and losing the better gun I had just picked up a few minutes before was starting to annoy me. I am very, very, very slowly warming to it - I was actually almost starting to enjoy it last night - as I explored and got some permanent upgrades such as this gadget for the back of the suit but being sent back to the start every time I die is kind of dampening my enthusiasm to play it to be honest. Graphically the game looks fine but it is so dark and the areas so small that it doesn't impress with its environments or detail in the same way as, say, Elden Ring or Hogwarts Legacy. The narrative is threadbare and the environments all feel small and claustrophobic, reminding me very much of the level design of Metroid Prime, which I am also replaying in remastered form on my OLED Switch. It feels very much like a Dark Souls clone with guns mixed with an arcade twin-stick shooter. The problem is that the game itself is not grabbing me as much as I'd hoped. Game seems to run okay, apart from some minoring stuttering (which I am led to believe is caused by the RT features), and I am getting around 100 fps on 1440p maxed out settings with both RT setting enabled and set to Ultra. So I bought a key from CDKeys for £33 (versus £50 on Steam) and downloaded it. I always liked Housemarque's previous games so I thought I'd give it a go finally. I missed this on my PS5 but picked up for my PC yesterday knowing it would likely run better than the console version on my new machine. ![]() |
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