Games for Lunch: Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest
In a nutshell: The building blocks of evolution
6/9/2008 6:11 PM | 0 Comments | Page 2 of 3
0:18 "Piggy ACE mutated four times." I can look through all the mutations I've gone through. Eventually I'll get up to six limbs, it seems.
0:19 "Whew! I'm plum tuckered out! What with being born and pigging out -- it was a killer schedule my first day. I'm totally oinked out. Zoinked out? Ah! Zonked out! Sorry! I haven't quite mastered the art of language yet." Anyone who can pull off that last sentence is probably lying.
0:20 Piggy ACE goes on a bit more about his vague genetic memory of the Wilderness and his desire to bring back color and eat colormeat: "It's the Vitamin D, or perhaps the protein... or maybe the savory taste...?" Whatever.
0:21 The "Bleach White Highlands" look a lot like the last area.
0:22 I come across a world "as white as snow" which I can't enter. Until I eat a Wildabug, that is -- that brings the wilderness back to the "barren land."
0:25 I find a seed of fright inside a grass box. Now I can scare other beasties with a tap of the Y button. That's great, but where are these beasties? The game is off to a pretty slow start.
0:27 Speak of the devil: I come across a two-limbed beast that's a bit harder than the earlier single-limbed enemies. He even gets in a few hits on me as we dance around each other a bit. The camera needs a lot of tweaking mid-battle, annoyingly.
0:30 Time for a boss battle with the "Cubscout beast" and a few of his cohorts. I take the cohorts out first (they can push me back with little growls), then I go after the big guy. He's not so tough. "Got Raw Paw!" "Cubscout Beast defeated" the game displays in huge letters, with a cute little trumpet fanfare in the background! "Now that I've got raw meat I can mate, I can mate!" So I just bit off this guy's sex organ? And put it on myself? Eeeeeew!
0:33 During the mid-level interlude, Piggy ACE tells me he now has an "incredible urge to find some females. And to belly-dance with them?" Is that what they're calling it these days?
0:34 On to the Frog Bog and its mating grounds. "The more mutations I undergo, the more the chicks dig me." I find the opposite is true in real life.
0:35 "Piggy ACE is king of six mutations and attracted two females." A menu comes up: "Wanna mate? Yes/No." Gotta love that direct approach! ACE and the two females go off screen. "I mated with two females." Yeah! Piggy ACE is a mack-daddy! "A child is born!" Oh, crap! Piggy ACE is a REAL daddy. Awww, but Piggy ACE the second is SO CUTE! He's a two-limbed beast who can pounce from farther away. Evolution at work! Go, Darwin!
0:37 The carcass of Piggy ACE the first sits at his son's quickly growing feet. It'd be sad and poignant if they weren't huge, pig-shaped blocks. Still, it's kind of touching.
0:39 "I have Grey" That's right, eating grey enemies turns me into a Greyodon that can dash with the B button. Or so I'm told. Actually, the B button makes me stay in place. Weird.
