Bitmob Wants You: To Write About Bionic Commando, Punch-Out!!
By Demian Linn in XB360, Wii, Punch Out, ps3, Nintendo, Imagine: Makeup Artist, I Love Beauty, Grin, First Party Pigs: FarmYard Games, DS, Destineer, Community, Capcom, Bionic Commando on May 22, 2009
What a huge week for game releases! First Party Pigs: FarmYard Games (Wii), then Imagine: Makeup Artist, THEN I Love Beauty (DS)? When will publishers learn? Why don't they spread out their makeup and farmyard titles rather than unleashing all the triple-A stuff in late May? Did Destineer send Party Pigs out to die?
Anyway, Punch-Out!! and Bionic Commando also slipped under the radar this week, so we thought it'd be good if the Bitmob community could write about these games. You know, so the hardcore gamers don't miss 'em.
Some of you have already started, like Stephen Barnard, who isn't a huge fan of Bionic Commando's radiation zones (I expect someone else might have a water level-related rant percolating as well, I know I do). And our own Andrew Fitch just chimed in on Punch-Out!!, too.
Great, a water level, that's a good idea.
We're looking for reviews, sure, but we're also happy to read posts that use these games as a springboard for other topics. What it felt like to finally beat Super Macho Man, say, or the fine line between challenge and frustration, and how the Bionic Commando guy swings across it over and over, dying each time.
Be sure to tag your articles with Punch Out or Bionic Commando (hit that 'tags' option over on the right when you're making a post), and we'll feature some of our favorites in a follow-up post on the front page. No set deadline, but the follow-up could be as soon as next Wednesday.
Comments (10)
I guess Rad just gives up on living after four seconds.
Bionic Commando has great moments like when you actually swing where the games wants you to. You can't have a game that's about freedom of movement then limit where a player can travel. I cannot tell you how many times I've missed a jump and fallen into basically this games variation of a bottomless pit only to be sent back to a loading screen to try again.
You get the feeling that the game is trying to preserve the old games difficulty but they attempt difficulty in terrible way. It's weird you get the feeling that the game is fucking with you and laughing behind the scenes.
There is multiple issues with the game but the music is fucking fantastic. The remixed tunes almost make me forget the problems but every wrong turn into a radiation cloud or misjudging swing distance and falling to my death Iget closer to a controller throwing rage.