Tuesday, April 29, 2008

BARKLEY, SHUT UP AND ROGUELIKE

Tales of Game's Studios, who you may recall as the people responsible for Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, have released their second game. It is, of course, a roguelike starring the Wu-Tang Clan.

It doesn't have randomly generated levels, but it does have the arguably cooler feature of letting you open up all the level data in notepad and edit it yourself (this, by the way, reminded me a lot of another recent game that I forgot to mention here - Tiny Hawk). It's also probably the easiest roguelike I've ever played - I won the first time I played after choosing Inspectah Deck, who takes no damage from traps, automatically identifies items, finds hidden doors and opens all locked doors without a key. I imagine that the other characters are much harder to win with. It's not quite compelling enough to play through twice, but it's worth checking out, at the very least!

You can download The Sewer Goblet - The Wu-Tang Cland and the Wu-Tang Baby, from here.

(credit goes to kthorjensen of the selectbutton forums for this entry's title)

2 comments:

Matt Brown said...

Dammit! I still haven't downloaded and played Shut Up and Jam Gaiden yet! Now I have two extra games to add to my que and I just bought GTA IV. It's a hard life...

Anonymous said...

I beat the game with DZA and had a lot of fun with it. Definitely agree on the ease, this is the first roguelike I've gotten anywhere in. I really liked it, although a little more challenge would have been welcome.