Nefarious

Charming nostalgia yet original game. Story and characterization: 4/5 Without spoiling the game, you play as Crow who desire to kidnap certain characters for his own goal while fighting obstacles characters inspired by popular 2d 90s game characters. The game shine best when comes to characters interaction which takes place in hub place or levels. You do learn various characters situation and personality which can be funny, intriguing, character you want to root for, something that is sad, and WTF moment as well. ====== Gameplay: 3/5 Like megaman, you can customize your weaponry where one arm does punching ability which isn't that great to be honest where other arm can use 4 types of projectiles. The game does encourage you to use regular or sticky grenades to give you extra jumping boost to reach certain treasure chest (this is money), crowns, and vinyl records. Problem about this that you can't change weapons doing gameplay despite there are choices of using rockets and assault rifle which doesn't give you jumping boost. This would mean that you wouldn't use rockets or assault rifle until you finish the game. The game is generous to have saving point within the level and infinite lives. Since you are a super villain, you would interact with certain villains and get to use various machines on most levels. You can use 3 save files which can be convenient for those who are sharing the game. This game does something different compare to other 2d shooting games that I have ever played and that is using captives' passive ability to your advantage. Do note this passive ability isn't used often through out whole game which would have been neat idea if they did. ====== Music: 2.5/5 Music is okay which nothing really standout but there are few very annoying music. Luckily this game does give you option change the volume of sound and music. ====== Presentation: 4/5 I thought this game did good job for indie game where some are animated as well. Some characters needed to be updated for such as Mayapple does not look right when comparing her to other characters. Final thoughts: I highly recommend buying the game and it does worth sequel

8/10: Entertaining platformer w/ oldschool 90s vibes. Music is alright. Gameplay is good. Storyline is interesting. It does what it does well

for a comedy game i think this was pretty funny and cool (the mechanics and artstyle are a tad bland though) i liked it

CRIMINALy underrated ahahaha

While I did enjoy most of the game, can't say the same about the final phase of the final boss. It feels like they ran out of money at the last level and had to improvise.

I love the idea of playing as the villian.

Picked it up cheap- it's fun. Good gimmick, decent platforming, and the controls aren't that bad. One big opportunity for me would be more feedback when you receive damage, but other than that, a pretty fun and forgiving action game.