davidn

ravenworks reminded me about this series a couple of nights ago, and having put Amnesia aside for a while due to its rather dull translation to a playthrough video, I threw myself wholeheartedly into the SNES era. Having apparently felt that my life hadn't quite been weird enough recently, he came up with this suggestion, a specimen from Japan. Sorry about the stripe down the right hand side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCjl3H7V7Ss
I had no idea what it was about when I started, but I was quickly to find out that it was a side-scrolling beat-em-up. It has an alleged storyline, but just by looking at it I can't really make any connection with what goes on in the game - it appears to be about beating robots up and stealing their ingredients so that your Robochef 4000 can bang two of them together until they form a meal. I suppose that's where the "Gourmet" bit of the title comes from - I hadn't realized that until now.

Anyway, just look at it - it defies description, and I didn't even get very far. It did lead me to notice, however, that I have a tendency to vocalize pain felt by my player character - and I hadn't realized that during moments of stress my voice could get anywhere near that high.

I should make it clear - if you can't tell - that during my complete incoherence on the first boss, I was looking at her bizarrely muscular robo-legs. Goodness gracious me.