Mooch

Somebody sat down one day and said to themselves, I wonder what would happen if I took a really, really old arcade game and mixed it with a really, really old boardgame. So... they took Pac-Man and crossbred it with Operation. Now, this isn't one of those miricle mixtures like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or banana and toffee pie. This is more like cheese and chocolate. Mooch is one of those games that should be in the guiness book of records for worst ideas alongside things like the bungee cord made of straw. For 30 agonizing minutes I gave this title a try. At around 60 seconds per level you can see that I gave it a fairly good shake but this game is literally you, moving pac-man's evil twin through a bland maze with insta-death traps as you pick up power-pills. The pacing is sooooo slow that you really feel like this must have been someones first attempt at programming a game. But as if slow-motion, insta-death, edgy Pac-man wasn't already a dumb enough idea they actually went to new heights (depths?) of stupidity - they thought it would be a good idea to sell it to people! Thankfully, I picked this up on sale for next to nothing and it may be a worthwhile purchase if I …

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This game is flat out not fun. All you do is collect orbs and avoid enemies. No real story to motivate you to progress. Everything is a 1 hit kill, and levels don't have checkpoints. You die more often to spikes on the wall than actual enemies, because the corridors are annoyingly narrow. I get killed more often than not for not being precise enough when navigating a corridor. Because that's totally how characters should constantly die in games - that's really fun! Seriously, the atmosphere looks cool, but the gameplay sucks.

There is no resolution setting. The game screen is half of my screen size. This is the same whether fullscreen or windowed. It looks good, I'd love to play it and recommend it if it turns out to be good. I can't play it like this, and therefore can't recommend it.

garbage

This one was good but hard at the same time!