Games for Lunch: Mister Slime
In a nutshell: Slimy yet not very satisfying
10/2/2008 7:31 PM | 0 Comments | Page 2 of 3
0:24 Taking some extra time to explore, I manage to find every hidden flower in the last stage of Level 2. They're not that hard to find, actually.
0:25 A Slime with a bow warns me about the Grabuks, floating armadillo-like things that can hurt me. They're guarding the entrance to the village. Who'da guessed?!
0:26 Cute ... when I hold the same anchors as the bowed Slime, she winks at me.
0:28 Heh ... I used my body as a makeshift slingshot to take out the Grabuk. He flies away with a cartoony "Gaboing!" But the music is no longer so bouncy.
0:30 I run into some trouble with the third Grabuk ... it's hard to find a handhold that gives me enough spring to slingshot. Slimy looks absolutely pathetically sad when he's hurt...
0:31 "Something must have scared them to make them come so close to the village." Wow, man ... that's deep.
0:32 Ti'sly tells me that Ma'sly wants me to help Gran'sly. Wow, this naming convention is getting annoying.
0:34 Looks like the temporary excitement of the last level was a false alarm -- traipsing over to Gran'sly to get a key to a locked door is a largely lackadaisical affair.
0:36 One of the village Slimes tells me the Axons are terrible and powerful ... but he's never actually seen one. My friend Three-Arms, on the other hand, lost a limb fighting them. I can't wait to meet this guy.
0:38 Ma'sly wants me to be head of the village when she gets "called off" to the forest. I don't wanna do it, though. Enough about that ... Gran'sly isn't feeling so good and needs me to find some regenerative candy. This plot is the most scattered thing I have ever seen.
0:41 It takes me a good two minutes to figure out how to get to my inventory screen. Turns out I have to click a little curlicue in the corner. Not that anyone told me that. Blarg.
0:43 "I've helped everyone here. I hope Ma'sly will be proud of me." Man, this guy is so precociously treacley, he makes me miss all those mascots with overbearing "EXTREME ATTITUDE" from the '90s.
0:44 Aunt Ma'sly is mad at me for being late. Now I get to help her WATER PLANTS! OH BOY!
0:48 Picking up a bucket, filling it with water, and returning to the fields is just as fun as it sounds. Which is to say: Not fun at all.
0:49 Damn, Mr. Slime is getting angry at Ma'sly. "She expects miracles. She expects me to know how to do everything!" 1) If she expects you to know everything, why does she tell you how to do everything? 2) There's the "EXTREME ATTITUDE!"
