Clear #77 - Night Creatures
Night Creatures is a thoroughly frustrating game that has a lot of good things going for it, but it's entirely let down by shoddy controls and shit hit detection. Think of it as Shape Shifter lite, where there's a lot of similarities but it's worse in every way.
The Good: Good parallax; though few and rather short and repetitive, the tunes are decent; dark, sinister, and nicely detailed backgrounds; and lots of different creepy crawlies to battle, including some cool bosses like Mr. Pumpkin Head, some broad that rips her own guts out and uses 'em as weapons, and a 50 shades of obey dominatrix that comes at you with a flail.
The Bad: Dumb ending; it's short if you know where to go, with a mere 15 minutes of play time if you never die, yet it's easy to run out of time (a timer punishes exploration), run into a dead end, or die repeatedly; and it feels unfinished with a bear transformation that's never needed, areas you need never explore (Swamp? What swamp?), and a lengthy boss rush at the end that surely has a couple bosses that were meant to head levels that were never completed.
The Ugly: Cheap difficultly level due to piss poor hit detection and unresponsive controls, particularly when trying to fly the owl transformation.
Full Disclosure - I usually only count a 1CC as a clear, but I can't imagine trying to beat this one in one run (you can only save after dying).
