YEAH! 265, First Try! This game is AWESOME. Dude, 100% you should copyright this game mechanic and try to get it into the next generation of party games on consoles. I'm talking the Mario Partys and the Fuzion Frenzies, and all those things. Maybe even the next Wario Ware: Disturbing and Vaguely Sexual Subtitle (You know what I mean. Shake it, Touch me, and all those other gross things Wario tells us to do? Ugh.)
Hey there, long time member, think this is like my first to third comment. Think I remember commenting once before, not sure. Anyway, I enjoy this. I like the setting (silly and rural) and the way that Peakot gets equipment for special powers makes for a fun game mechanic. Honestly and truly, I could see this as being a 3D platformer if you could get some funding and a publisher, maybe release on the 360's Live Marketplace and the PSN (Playstation Network) Or over Steam or Gametap or something. Lots of new independant guys are making good to great games. Give it a think.
Alrighty, here's my review, as someone who just beat this, and who also beat Dragon Age: Origins on the 360 yesterday.
This game's not bad. Nothing great, but it held my attention. Was cool to get a little more lore into the background, and I assume that this all takes place right before the Blight in Origins, as the Darkspawn are still digging here, and not marching on the surface. Nice backstory, and I'll come back for the more parts.
The Unlockable items in Origins from this game is SERIOUSLY cool. Haven't tried them in there yet, but the concept of playing a web game to unlock something in a game on a major console is just great. I'd give this game a 4/5 then. Very nice, keep them coming. One problem: Combat got a little repetetive and coring at times.
The original was great, but frankly, the Prius has nothing to do with this, I hate the smug arrogant pricks who obsess about saving the earth, and the Efficiency meter just plain annoys me. The original game was about coming up with interesting, off the wall solutions to things. This here is about making tiny things that won't spend too much energy. Lame. Make a sequel, and leave the Hippie car out of it.
The title of the game is, in itself, forever changing. Look at it in the game, the letters are cycling and changing at what seems to be random. They didn't need to change it for anyone or anything, because the word itself is always changing. So to be blunt, NO, it's not the F-word. It's not supposed to be the F-word. It's not standing in for the F-word. If it has any connection to that word at all, it's only to make you THINK it's that word until you realize that you were WRONG.
There was ALSO a second version of the same story, told by slaves before the Civil War and Emancipation. It went exactly like Orpheus And Eurydice, only it was about Jim Orpus, and his girlfriend Dicey. Yeah, I swear, I actually read this once. Also, Jim Orpus, instead of a harp, played a harmonica or something. Exact same story and ending. Even had Hades, too, oddly enough.