Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel Review

Before I start this review off, I'm going to say that I don't like the MSX Metal Gear games at all and I found them to be bad if not terrible games. With that said, Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel turned out to be a pretty decent surprise, I was expecting to play Ghost Babel for a few minutes or maybe an hour or two and then drop it, but to my surprise I actually got to the end of the game. This game is to me for the people who enjoy Metal Gear 2.

The game most certainly does feel like a Metal Gear game when you start it up, you have a pretty lengthy opening cutscene before you even get to start a new game. I'm also well aware that Ghost Babel is non canon and isn't part of the official Metal Gear timeline. With all that said, I did find the story to be decent if nothing special, I don't think it's as good as Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation but the writing in GB isn't as irritatingly ineptly written as the games after MGS1. You at least know a decent bit about the villains before they die even if they do the MGS1 thing of having long winded monologues before they die, all though unlike MGS1, they don't survive more than one encounter against Snake and they don't actively get in the way as much either. I did know more about the villains in Ghost Babel by comparison to say the Cobra Unit in MGS3, it isn't a high standard but it goes to show how much I don't care for MG's story post MGS2 at the most.

The side characters are okay, they are at least somewhat more involved than the support team of MGS3 all though most of their involvement in the story happens at the end.

If anything I can give points to the story is that for a portable game especially for a portable system that couldn't even do 3D graphics or have voice acting, the narrative is at least decent presented with well drawn still images and it did a good enough job at keeping me interested while never reaching the heights of MGS1.

The gameplay however is where Ghost Babel in a number of ways surpasses the console MGs while also being worse in some other ways. I'll start with the good.

In terms of moment to moment sneaking, GB is far better than the MSX games since for one you can actually hug walls to hide from enemies and enemies for the most part tend to get off your tail after being seen without being overly relentless unlike MG2.

Some improvements over MGS1 and 2 is that you actually have to pay attention to the environment where in the former you could just look at the radar screen the whole game and never suffer any consequences. In GB enemy sightlines are visible on radar and you can't see everything in front of you. Unlike MGS2-4, you don't have a tranq pistol with infinite range partnered with first person mode so you can walk into every room and headshot every guard before you even have to engage with the stealth and this is GB on easy no less. Unlike MGS3 and 4, Snake isn't that great at close quarters combat either meaning you have to avoid where in MGS3 anything outside of European Extreme means I can just CQC slam my way out. 

The bosses are also pretty easy but require slightly more thought since there is not first person aiming. 

One major improvement over MGS1 however is that many of the one off mechanics in that game actively pop up in Ghost Babel. Examples include electric floors that you need to remote missiles to destroy switches on, lasers detectable by smoke and thermal goggles, walls destroyed with C4, trap doors, toxic gas rooms, loud floors that alert guards to your presence upon running on them and mines get used far more than in MGS1.

On top of this GB has some ideas of it's own like electrified water, swimming stealth, foilage, guards that get up after a few seconds of being punched and even dark rooms that you can only progress through by using thermal goggles. Some of these I wish were in the game more like foilage and swimming stealth but you can chock this up to me wishing the game having more outdoors levels all though that means more dog enemies which is probably a good thing since trying to avoid them without having a silenced pistol equipped and shooting them is hard to do. I can't for the life of me figure out how to completely avoid them without getting spotted.

This leads me to a major negative that prevents me saying this game is amazing and that is the progression, it's hard to tell where to go for much of the game and even by exploring the rooms, it's hard to tell where to go and which part continues the story, your support team gives you vague hints too and might provide dialogue that don't give you the direction you need. Some parts can be obtuse too. Like how some doors aren't even textured telling you can go into them or with the C4 wall breaking sections none of the walls are textured with a crack telling you that you plat C4 on them.

There is also a part where you need to plant C4 on 4 parts of the map but they are randomized on each playthrough making a walkthrough useless.

The last mission however is great and the pathfing issues become less prevelant since there is less rooms to keep track of and since it's a small base, finding the true path becomes less of a large process of elimination. 

Overall, GB is a good game and worth checking out. I'd say check it out even if you are lukewarm on Metal Gear as a whole like I am. 

Slave Zero X Thoughts and Rant

I really wanted to enjoy Slave Zero X, call it a lesser known game of 2024 and say, "you should check this out if you like beat em ups of any kind" but I can't. I've seen many reviews particularly on Steam where they criticized the game as hardcore Devil May Cry and Guilty Gear fans but I'm going to try to approach this review as someone who has played a number of action games and games as a whole over the years.

There is so much wrong with the game and there is SOME moments of fun to be had so much of the game's combat mechanics feel inept, the way they are presented to you is poorly done, the campaign is structure is just lacking and the game as a whole is super unstable.

Slave Zero X on consoles and PC as of now seems to run really poorly. On PS5, I encountered very frequent crashing on Zone 2 where you fight the flame sword mini boss for the first time, got 2 infinite load screens of death and also a crash where the game showed some kind of error could of it's own and then I got booted out of the game. The game has been out for months and it still hasn't gotten patched enough where the game feels like a stable experience.

With that out of the way, there's other issues with Slave Zero X outside of how unstable it is, first of all the tutorial really sucks, it is so amateurish, you don't even get a tutorial where you play out the moves and learn them as you go, instead the game just has a bunch of screens telling you what each button and what each mechanic does and gives you barely much of an understanding how combat works. Here's an idea to fix this, Shou and Isamu are friends so why not put them in a sparring match teaching the player how the combat mechanics work? This seems to be a decent way to teach the player how to engage with it's combat mechanics.

Here's another big issue with Slave Zero X, it's a game inspired by fighting games and Devil May Cry and guess what? You have no move list by pressing the start menu. I'm not the kind of guy who looks into a move list but considering there's attacks I would probably want to know like the Burst EX move, I won't know unless I look it up online.

The checkpoint system is also very inconsistent, I'm already against any game adopting the NES and Arcade philosophy of redoing lots of content upon death but Slave Zero X is very inconsistent regarding this. Some levels have checkpoints while others don't. Some parts of the game checkpoints on the bosses and other parts of the game have you fight waves of enemies before you can fight the mini bosses again, and mini bosses and destroy your health bar pretty quickly. The amount of enemy waves you have to fight before getting to the hard part just makes me feel like the game is wasting my time before the game is getting me to the part that is causing me to get the game overs.

You also never get any new weapons, moves or abilties throughout the whole game, which can make the game feel more monotonous since getting new abilities and or something new is the exciting part of single player action games of any kind, yet Slave Zero just gives you the same toolset the whole game. Which now leads me to my next point.

The mini bosses are a pain in the ass, and they have ridiculous amounts of HP while you die very quickly by them and dispatching many of them pretty much revolves around the same thing: getting lucky. New weapons and abilties could possibly make you more proficient at killing them but killing them revolves around the same tactics, spam ordenace on smaller groups and hopefully hit them and the mini boss at the same time, and hope you can keep wailing on the mini boss as their shield are down so you don't have to fight them. The hammer user mini boss deserves a special reward for being one of the most annoying enemies in a game I have ever fought, he has a grabbing fetish, and there is no way to actively avoid his grab attacks. You can't attack him to stop, you can't dodge out the grab and jumping is too unreliable.

The kicker to all this and this is what made me quit the game is that you have to fight these mini bosses while seemingly infinitely respawning hitscanners are attacking you towards the end of the game. So if the mini bosses aren't eating away large chunks of health, the hitscanners will slowly cut away at your health.

There is also the fact that you get no inviciblity frames upon getting hit which means regular mobs can kill you by juggling you to death. Dodging I'm not sure gives you consistent I frame either.

With all this said, there is an interesting concept here. The idea of playing a beat em up where juggling and crowd control is the name of the game is a cool if even innovating but due to the reasons I mentioned, it feels like a half baked idea. It's trying to beat a beat em up and a fighting game and isn't that great at it.

Overall, Slave Zero X was something I waned to enjoy but there are so many other 2D beat em ups from this era alone you could be playing instead.

House of the Dead Overkill(Playstation 3) Review

I'm not that big of a rail/light gun shooter player, I've played a couple and I do enjoy them but they just feel like quick one and done kind of games, I do like Dead Space Extraction with that said. I played the House of the Dead remake that came out a few years ago and I didn't think much of it and I randomly saw House of the Dead Overkill on PS3 at a convention for a somewhat hefty asking price but I decided to buy it anyway.

With all that said, I didn't play HOTD Overkill with a Playstation Move controller which probably does hurt the enjoyment I could be getting from the game all though in all honesty the hard part playing the game with a PS3 controller are the bosses more so than the railing shooting enemy guanlets.

The gameplay is pretty fun, the AMS Magnum starting weapon felt pretty good to use, it sounded loud and powerful and killing enemies with it fely stimulating. I mainly used that and upgraded it since buying extra weapons felt like it had a steep asking price and it can be annoying watching characters hold different guns in a cutscene but you mainly used the AMS Magnum. That and it could be me playing on a PS3 controller but I could never find enough money in the levels to afford new guns or me moving the stick fast enough to pick up the random pieces of cash lying in the levels, the same can be said for getting health packs too.

I'm not even sure you can get a hard game over since I never got one and I was using analog stick aiming even when the bosses were really challenging with said analog stick aiming.

I'll talk about the bosses since the easiest one with analog stick aiming was the first and maybe the final boss, the latter is easy since you have a powerful chaingun that is more powerful than the Ars Magnum pistol and can do a lot of damage to the blue health bars.

This is where the challenge of many of the bosses past the first one comes from, with a Move, mouse or Wii Mote, this probably isn't too hard but with a controller, the hard part comes from depleting the blue boss attack health bar in time so you can damage them and prevent yourself from losing health. If you don't deplete this blue health bar in time, it regenerates, you lose health and you have to do the bosses patterns all over again and then the blue boss attack health bar pops up again. These parts are the hardest sections of the game with analog aiming. They are doable but if you are one of those people who want to play with a high score on the PS3 version without a Move controller, be warned.

Another small gripe is that my finger got tired a good number of times mashing the R1 button and the bosses does require you to have a fast trigger finger which can make the blue health bar depleting even more of an annoyance.

However, one thing about HOTD Overkill I do really like and this is surprising since I don't value it as much as some other people in the gaming community: the story. No, the story isn't going to be some deep thought provoking masterpiece, but it is really entertaining and fun to watch unfold. What carries much of it is the banter between Issac Washington and Agent G, the former is one of the funniest characters in a video game I have ever seen, if you ever watched the Boondocks animated series, Issac talks like one of the side characters from that series. His voice actor delivers his high strung profanity filled dialogue with absolute conviction and it's just super fun to watch him go crazy over the top and play off Agent G. The other characters besides Issac and Agent G are decent with Clement being a standout in how much of a crazy over the top seemingly Norman Bates inspired character he is. His voice actor also does a good enough job too.

The tone is also very over the top and doesn't take itself very seriously and I normally never use the "not taking itself seriously" as a get of a jail free card, but outside of the story shoving in a werid amount of incest subplots, the story just knows that it is stupid over the top stuff. It's clear from the start that the story is just insane absurdity.

Overall, HOTD Overkill is a solid time, and you might get even more enjoyment out of it with a mouse or motion controller. I do think the story is up there with Dead Space Extraction when it comes to be an engaging for an on rails shooter but for different reasons. The PS3 version of the game can be a little too steep for my tastes so definetely get the PC version which seems to be the easiest way to play the game.  

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Review

I wasn't even planning to get this game anytime soon or not as soon as I did. I hated the Sand Land game so much that Sparking Zero came out around the same time I played that and I decided, "well let's play the better game based on a franchise by Akria Toriyama" so as a result, I bought Sparking Zero at full price rather than the discount I was originally going to get it on. With that all out of the way, how was it?

It's "good" but buying it for the single player and story mode at the current price point, I'm not so sure is a good idea, I know Sparking Zero's big appeal was the multiplayer but the story mode isn't really that great. I'd say it's a step down from the story modes in the very series Sparking Zero is trying to revive minus Tenkaichi 1. Before I get started on the story mode, I'll start talking about the gameplay.

This is very much a Tenkaichi game, of course it is, that's Sparking Zero's biggest draw, and as a guy who played those games a lot as a kid, and only replayed the 3rd game around 2 years ago, I felt right at home with everything, Sparking Zero is very much the modernized Tenkaichi game that many people wanted. You want a Tenkaichi game with a new look and covers the modern Dragon Ball content than look no furthur. No more need to mod Tenkaichi 3 anymore, I guess.

Even playing Sparking Zero, it's going to have it's detractors especially those that play more traditional fighting games, the game's mechanics have a lot more going for it than many other similar arena anime fighters. Naruto Storm for example can generally feel pretty mindless a lot of the time since the back and forth in Storm is basically landing the first hit and hoping you got the substitution jutsu meter lined up to break out of the combo string and maybe having an ultimate jutsu lined up.

Sparking Zero on the other hand gives you more, you got Z counters, high and low blocks, parries, sparking mode, charge attacks, dashes as well there being a distance game where you can use ki blasts and energy attacks to prevent your opponent from powering up or if you suck at close quarters combat like me, you can try to constantly play the distance game. There is beam struggles and clashes to account for to.

There are issues Sparking Zero has like Z counter timing and parrying for every character being the same and many of the attacks can be boiled down to energy beams and rushing melee attacks and a lot of the combos for the characters are just square, triangle, square, or square, square, triangle, but as far as this style of fighter is concerned, Dragon Ball Sparking Zero has more going it for it than many of it's contemporaries.

However the single player is where SZ drops the ball for me. By no means is it, "bad" and it does a decent enough job at being a bear minimum single player but at the same time, the "what ifs" don't amount to much since the story decisions pop up too few and far between.

Much of the character routes outside of Goku don't have much effort put into them. It's decently presented even if it could be of a higher standard since some scenes are still images with voices and other are full on cutscenes.

The biggest problem is the other characters' routes outside of Goku have large chunks of story missing for them. Vegeta has no Super content, Gohan has Sayain and Namek Sagas skipped over, Piccolo goes up to the Androids, Future Trunks only covers Goku Black, and the villain routes felt like they were tacked on. The whole thing feels like Dragon Universe from Budokai 3 and I'm not sure SZ does a good job capturing that since at least DU covers every major character's fight throughout the series. All the main fights with Jiren, Goku Black and Frieza are covered but it didn't seem they needed to be there since those characters popped in one saga and Frieza was gone for so long of DB until Super. It also doesn't even include the fact that all the routes have the Universe 6 saga skipped over. Doing anything past Goku's campaign felt like a chore.

Another major aspect of the story mode that isn't really that great is the difficulty, and no it's not the Great Ape Vegeta fight, it's the amount of times the story mode has the boss rush handicap matches and how canon ending requirements for some characters requires you to wait for dialogue before finishing off an enemy. The amount of the former can really annoy me since it's the only way SZ adds difficulty. You wil have a hard time fighting one opponent, then another character with lots of health appears, and you may have to fight 4-5 characters at once.

As a result, I mainly just played a distance game, spammed charged up energy attacks and special moves to win. It felt like I was just cheesing because I had to since the AI is relentless when it comes to close quarters fighting. It didn't feel like the game wanted me to play the "fun" way.

Overall, SZ is a good game, but if you aren't playing online, wait for a discount for the single player content.

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Review

I'm not the biggest fan of the Symphony of the Night style of metroidvania, I'm more on the Metroid side but I do get some casual fun out of the former, I remember trying to play the DS Castlevania games on emulator almost a decade ago and I couldn't get very far, I only managed to finish Dawn of Sorrow but to much of my surprise the Castlevania Dominus Collection dropped out of nowhere and I decided to jump into Portrait of Ruin.

It's about as good as an SOTN style metroidvania can get, but it also has the stuff I am lukewarm on more on that later.

New to PoR is the dual character system and the fact that instead of exploring a large castle, it's basically a hub world with enemies and you progress the game by completing standalone "portrait" levels. These innovations are mostly fine, and I welcome them since there was already multiple games in this style of CV game.

The dual character system where you control Johnathan and Charlotte is interesting, you get two characters for the price of one and there is cool team up attacks you can do. Early game has the player using their pushing ability, using one of the characters as boost up and solving some coop puzzles here and there but this starts to go away the more the game goes on which is a shame. I also mainly stuck to one character whenever they had a high damage melee weapon and I started to use Charlotte with her Tomb of Arms 2 being a switch blade where I can hit in all 3 directions in front of me.

The Portraits levels are fine and the level progression do a good enough job at being long but not overly so that it makes going back to the castle with all the upgrades pretty rewarding.

However like I said PoR carries over what I liked and disliked about this style of CV and Metroidvania, what I like is that I rarely if ever felt like I got lost, which is nice since there are times in Metroid games and games like where I'm not sure where to go and look up a guide. I also love how the requirement to get the "true" ending is relatively simple, find the spell called "Sanctuary", make sure Charlotte is equipped with it and commander her to do it while Johnathan have taunt equipped and have him do it to the the Vampire Sisters boss and bam, it's done, now continue on with the game, it's nothing as padded as the Inverted Castle from SOTN.

There are the things I dislike, for example being that exploration isn't even always worth it since you can spend minutes in certain corridors and rooms to find a weapon and item with stats lower than the weapons and items that you are already carrying. Making me felt like I wasted my time and it wasn't even worth it.

The extra moves and abilties that you don't even need to use to beat the game. PoR has these techniques you can learn but I never needed to learn any of them since all you really need is a high damage weapon and magic attacks to be effective. I also used the Rolling Thunder attack and rarely if ever used any other special team up move.

The final negative is that the Vampire Killer once it's potential is unlocked becomes the most powerful and dominant weapon in the game, there is no downsides to using it. Sure, yes, Richter Belmont is a very challenging boss for sure but once you beat him, no other boss outside of maybe Dracula gets hard as him again and the latter is hard because he has a 2nd phase meaning you might need to have more healing items stocked in order to beat him. I'll admit I did use rewind that comes with the Dominus Collection during Dracula but once it's again, it's more so that he has a 2nd phase and meaning it takes longer for him to go down.

Overall, Portrait of Ruin was lived up to my expectations, a decently made SOTN styled metroidvania back in a time where CV games were primarily making their money off the portable scene. It didn't do much to change my mind on this style of game but it is nice that I finally got to beat a game I started around 10 years ago.

Ghostbusters: The Game Remastered(Nintendo Switch) Review

After playing Ghosthunter a few months ago and strongly disliking that game, I wanted to replay for a 3rd time a shooter where you fight ghosts. I always remember Ghostbusters the games as being one of those well made licensed 3rd person shooters from 7th gen like the Transformers Cybertron games and Warhammer 40K Space Marine and does it still hold up? I'd say for the most part it does all though I'm noticing some major design issues that bother me much more now. It's a well made game but there are things about GB the game that annoys me a lot when I played it recently.

Before I start this, I'm not sure if this applies to the other versions of the remastered edition but the Switch version really isn't that great. I suffered one crash which never happened to me when playing on PS3 or replaying on PS4. That and the load times are super slow and that can be really bothersome especially during the game's difficulty spikes. It's not the worst way to play but if you can find alternate ways to play, I suggest looking into them.

As for the game itself, it's a pretty unique third person shooter in a number of ways, the best way of describing it that what if you had the controls and camera perspective of Gears of War, the scaning from Metroid Prime and the fact that your primary antagonist you will be actively fighting in the game are ghost and how the run away constantly and phase through walls like the Fatal Frame games. You get this.

Before I get to the gameplay, the story is worth mentioning since the script for the game is esstentially the official sequel to Ghostbusters 2...before the recent new movies but that is besides the point. It's full of charm and the character interactions are decent fun even though I haven't watched the movies in a while. However it does seem to expect you to know the first two films before jumping into the game which can be a little offputting, but it's still a moderately entertaining story for the kind of game this is even if a big issue with the story is that the player character feels like he has no agency or geniune value to the story since the player is doing all the work but the Ghostbusters crew takes all the credit and they are the ones who the plot acknowledges. Since was originally a movie script so it does show to some degree.

The gameplay however is mostly good even if there are some big issues I have with it. The Gears of War inspirations can be seen in that the Ghostbusters during gameplay are kind of like COG soliders who are with you in Gears, they help you out and talk during gameplay and you have to revive them if they are down, but on the flipside before the later Gears games, the Ghostbusters can revive you provided if they aren't downed by enemies themselves.

Metroid Prime inspirations can be seen in that you have 4 selectable weapons which you can use by touching the D pad and the PKE meter is esstentially Samus' scan visor. How you can scan various parts of the environment and what attacks enemies are weak to.

This makes for a TPS game that I can't find a similar game to. It also has unqiue ideas of it's own where you need to "trap" ghosts instead of killing them and they are mixed in with enemies who can be killed traditionally. This makes for a robust combat system where you will shoot enemies traditionally one minute and trap ghosts the next and this novelty as well as competent execution really makes the game.

However I mentioned some major issues, a smaller one is that while the PKE meter is cool, sometimes it feels pointless since allies will use the current weapon enemies are weak to which takes away from using it. There is some use in it with that said when fighting newer enemies.

The upgrade system is also rather pointless since by the end of the game you will be able to unlock everything just by playing the game normally.

The biggest issue I have is the difficulty spikes, the enemies and the inept friendly AI. When Ghostbusters the game is fun, it's a really good time, but there are some enemies and encounters that can sap away the fun. The gargoyles are the worst enemies in the game since their attacks are poorly telegraphed on top of being able to stagger the player character to insane degrees, if you get hit by them 3 times, it's a game over and it's a 50-50 game of chance if you friendly AI will be able to revive you. You don't fight them throughout the whole game but they ruin it every time they pop up.

The friendly AI is pretty bad and will be get downed a lot which is one really annoying way GB the game tries to add difficulty, you are fighting enemies and they will need reviving and get in your way. The checkpoint system however prevents the game from being infuriating. The health system isn't that great since it's hard to tell when I'm at critical plus the staggering.

Overall, Ghostbusters the game mostly is good but it has some major problems that can cause me to rage like crazy when the difficulty spikes happened.

Mister Mosquito Review

I always heard of this game being brought up, over the years I would randomly see it get mentioned as one of those really "weird" games that is unique and should be experienced, and it popped in Playstation Premium Classics recently so I decided to play it.

Mister Mosquito is certainly a unique game, the best way of describing it is that what if games like Hitman and Untilted Goose Game gave the player the ability to fly and the whole point of the game is to be an annoying pest like in the latter game? It's esstentially Mister Mosquito. In a lot of ways, it can be considered a stealth puzzle game of sorts.

The first offputting thing about the game is that there is no tutorial that I am able to find and as a result, I had no idea what the controls and level objectives even were, this could potentially ruin the game for first time players, I was almost considering quitting but after I looked up some the controls and what you are supposed to do during the levels, everything became much more enjoyable.

The flight controls do take some getting used and I had to invert the camera in the PS5 emulation control settings. You may need to adjust more than just that depending on your prefrences.

What makes Mister Mosquito a "stealth" game of sorts is that the whole point of the game is to suck blood from the various npcs inside certain rooms of their house without being spotted and without them noticing that you are sucking their blood like an actual mosquito. You have to suck certain amounts of blood from the npcs in every level in order to complete them. You also have to avoid getting into their line of sight and alerting them to your presence, while also activating parts of the environment in order to have the npc reveal certain body parts to suck off of, and suck blood using a right analog stick mini game before you get smacked all though PS5 rewind does arguably makes the mini games loose their tension since you can rewind and undo swat you could get.

When you do get caught, it's not all doom and gloom, you just need to hit certain pressure points while avoid the npcs' attacks and the game will reset itself back to stealth and them being unware.

And even more of a surprise there is an actual story and campaign in Mister Mosquito, both do a good enough job at feeling decently fleshed out especially for a game that you might think wouldn't even have one. The story does a good enough job at feeling fuffling, how the family gets more and more annoyed by the antics you do in the levels and how the stakes slowly start to ramp up.

This is where the structure of the campaign comes in, for a game that is about less than 2 hours, it's pretty varied you got multiple blood sucking points, npcs being aware of your presence the more the game goes on, different environment hazards, different ways in order for blood sucking points, and different animations to watch out for in order for blood suck points to pop up.

It's a well made campaign for what it is.

However some issues with the game are the same levels get reused a little too much for my liking, the level objectives did change, but appearing in the same rooms constantly did start to get a little old since I got tired of seeing the same scenery which while "fine" wasn't great enough to make me want to see them multiple times.

The contextual blood sucking animation to activate the mini game can be a little too inconsistent, I'm not sure if it's positioning, but sometimes I felt like I should've been able to activate the mini game and at other times the player mosquito character would just bump into the npc body part and it wouldn't activate.

Final complaint is that the penultimate level can jump the shark a little too much, you have an npc that suddenly has superpowers in a game which seemingly has a grounded everyday setting, you can argue it's part of the game's over the top tone, but personally I feel like a normal everyday family where a husband has superpowers is silly on top of the fact that the projectiles for his attacks feel like I have to be super lucky to dodge and the controls weren't precise enough for me to cosistently avoid the attacks. They either felt like they were hitscan or just moves to fast for me to even see or the controls were good enough for me to move quick. If it weren't for PS5 save states and rewind, I got a feeling I could've dropped the game here.

Overall, Mister Mosquito certainly does live up to it's reputation of being a quirky cult classic, I didn't even know what I was expecting going in but I turned out to enjoy a lot more than I ever thought I would.