Chipmonk!

[h3]Redwall meets Golden Axe in a furocious melee featuring a woodland variety of vicious streetfighters.[/h3] First things first, I have a tender spot in my heart for the olden days of beat em ups. Games were simpler when all you had to do was traverse a slightly repetitive landscape while beating up your local variety of stereotypical monsters. Golden Axe was a shining example of how unleashing a group of relentless murder hobos upon an unsuspecting (preferably evil) adversary works surprisingly well to enhance an evening with your friends crouched around a monitor. The fact that this is a small indie project heralding back to the olden days is a vibrant feather in the cap for me. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3298479961 Enter Chipmonk!, a spiritual successor of that primordial game with a, in my humble opinion, far superior theme and setting. This time around you play as a trio of more or less nourished chipmunks seeking bloody vengeance upon the dastardly gray squirrel who have laid claim to the land's food stores. The game is more or less what you would expect from a rodent take on Golden Axe and hacking and slashing your way through rats, beavers and …

3,5 y.o. niece was totally delighted, now asks for *the badger game* every time. 10/10 convenient options to educate your toddler about small rodent population of the nearest park.

Recommended. A woodland-creature skin stretched over a faithful Genesis-era brawler whose mushroom-powered specials and arcade-cruel continue economy deliver genuine retro thrills at the cost of real fairness. Three fighters trade health, speed and power, and specials burn collected mushrooms, with hallucinogenic pickups that invert controls usable on enemies too. The uncanny long-legged animal art, water reflections, falling snow and enemies spawning from houses at night polish well above budget, and Classic+ extends the twelve-level gauntlet. Adjacent-only hitboxes refuse to register from above or below, instant-death water gaps demand fussy running jumps, and five unearnable continues with a game-over dump to the title screen make the difficulty feel like a barrier. Judge the homage on its own terms and it holds up.

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I really wanted to like this game, you can tell the author has a fetish for golden axe, the gameplay and level structure are very similar. The graphics are made of huge ugly pixel that look better on the background than on the characters. There's a bit of poetry in the backgrounds that look a bit like something you'd see in an old Amiga shareware, but the characters look very ugly. The music is a MIDI monstrosity with very low quality samples. The scenario, ah well, there's no scenario, no texts no dialogs no nothing, just sprites hitting each other without a pretext, it's like watching an old silent slapstick movie. The gameplay is not very good, with 2 actions and a jump (I had to find the buttons by myself). When you're in front of an enemy, it's a coin throw to know who will get to hit the other first. Sometimes the enemies just appear by dashing from the borders of the screen, potentially getting a free hit on you. The whole game, from what I've seen is rather repetitive and short (probably less than one hour for completing a run). But what really seals the thumb down is that there is no save and as soon as you've lost all your continues, you're good to start over. This is a…

All of the superficial elements of Golden Axe, none of the depth.