Posted on: November 14, 2019
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Verified ownerGames: 101 Reviews: 8
Objectively not great - I still had fun
I have to say I'm biased towards this sort of thing because there's just something I find appealing about the whole rural American setting. I love the music and the over-the-top accents and silly, oh so silly ideas. But the gist of it is that despite GOG doing a decent job with the DOSBox setup, the game has a whole heap of problems. Technical, first - now most of them like insanely loud music and no widescreen and terrible controls can be solved by using a source port (I used BuildGDX, but there's also NRedneck/Rednukem which is apparently even better), but I realize not everyone has the patience to mess around with stuff like this. So out of the box, it's functional, but not very player-friendly. Then, there's the actual gameplay, and other people have mentioned a ton of negative things so I'll just sum them up: the hit detection is TERRIBLE (projectiles go right through enemies sometimes), the enemies are often unfair (why do shotgun-toting enemies take off 20+ health from halfway across a field?!) and the level layouts are the wrong kind of complicated. In Duke Nukem, and Blood (other Build engine games), keys were big and visible and more importantly, color coded. Here, they just lie on the ground and they're all brown and hard to see. Luckily BuildGDX has a "coloured keys" feature so it shows keys in either blue, red or brown (and the doors likewise). Without this feature you have zero chance of figuring some of these levels out, and even with that in mind, I still needed a walkthrough for some levels. One of the later levels has a hidden hallway under a totally inconspicuous waterfall. It's not a secret, it's the MAIN PATH. Sucks. But with all that said, I still had tons of fun playing this game - like I said, the setting is fun and caricatured, the environments, while convoluted, pretty lively and atmospheric and the music is cool too. I loved it because I love redneck stuff, if you don't, there's not much game here to keep you interested.
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