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January 10 - January 16: Buster Bros.
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(chosen by Punch)
Ahh Buster Brothers. Created by Mitchell/Capcom or god knows who else, this game tricks you into thinking it's easy and relaxing with its simplicity and with its relaxing tunes. Of course, when you play it for the first time you start to see how wrong you were about the game.
Mechanically it is indeed simple, but this is one of those "easy to learn hard to master" things in life. Spheres will start to bounce erratically during some stages because of obstacles (and sometimes because of the simplified "physics" the game employs) and will throw you off, two tiny spheres will sync their movement and positions perfectly and fool you into thinking it is only one, slippery ground in some stages will make you unable to do precise movements and those pesky creatures flying all over the screen will hit you as much as possible. Soon enough the game that was supposed to be relaxing is making you curse all famous cities of the world.
The only way to relax with your copy of Buster Bros. is to put your disc into a CD player to listen to the bgm without the added overhead of having to dodge 20+ small spheres bouncing around at different speeds on the screen. You can also relax by watching a crazy man with a hole in his shorts drawing the main characters of Buster Bros. here:
You can try to play with a friend to make your game session less stressful, but I can guarantee that for single or multiplayer modes, it is an addicting and fun game, enough to make you revisit it every now and then.
Buster Bros. (US), Pomping World (Japan), Balls in My Face 2! (Scandinavia)
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GOTW Schedule:
1. (1/3/2016 - 1/9/2016) Liquid Kids (lukester)
2. (1/10/2016 - 1/16/2016) Buster Bros. (Punch)
3. (1/17/2016 - 1/23/2016) Super Dimension Fortress Macross 2036 (Gentlegamer)
4. (1/24/2016 - 1/30/2016) Fushigi no Yume no Alice (EmperorIng)
5. (1/31/2016 - 2/6/2016) Valkyrie no Densetsu (Gredler)
6. (2/7/2016 - 2/13/2016) Bikkuriman World (jtucci31)
7. (2/14/2016 - 2/20/2016) Dragon's Curse (seieienbu)
8. (2/21/2016 - 2/27/2016) Yo, Bro! (grolt)
9. (2/28/2016 - 3/5/2016) Formation Armed F (nopepper)
10. (3/6/2016 - 3/12/2016) Silent Debuggers (MNKyDeth)
11. (3/13/2016 - 3/19/2016) Super Star Soldier (o.pwuaioc)
More submissions welcome!
Rules:
-All members are allowed one submission. When there are no further submissions, we will have a reset and everyone will be able to submit another game.
-Each game may only be submitted once.
-If you wish to retract your submission, please do so at least two weeks before your game is due. Your next submission will go to the back of the cue.
-Please don't submit games that have a high language barrier or will take too long to complete (particularly RPGs).
Topic: (1/10/2016 - 1/16/2016) Game of the Week: Buster Bros. (Read 555 times)
