As a Christmas present I received a copy of Prinny: Can I Be The Hero. For anyone who doesn't know what it is which is probably everyone who would ever read this, Prinny is a game made by Nippon Ichi Software. Usually that name strikes fear and immense amusement in the heart of just about any gamer, however this time NIS went beyond the call of duty and made what was intended to be the hardest platformer ever made. Well I'm pretty sure that it's safe to say that they succeeded. After all, I've only beaten 2 levels and I've lost over one hundred lives.
In Prinny, you take the role of 1000 creatures called Prinnies. Prinnies are weird ninja surfer penguins that say Dood at the end of every sentence and explode when you throw them. Your quest is to make dessert. Yes, I'm quite serious. But to make this certain "ultimate dessert", you have to gather ingredients from various enemies of your master. To do this, the Prinnies have to do some insane platforming. However you would think that the moment they hit the ground after jumping off of a cliff that they would explode right? Well your master Etna thinks of that and makes you an explosion-proof scarf. Yes, a scarf. However there's only one scarf and 1,000 Prinnies. So when one Prinny dies in a usually humorous way involving a zombie, the next one takes the scarf and carries on the quest.
1,000 lives doesn't sound too bad does it? Well first of all you die in one hit unless you want to be a wuss and play on the easy difficulty which will result in all of the game's fans ridiculing you, the makers of the game will ridicule you, and I will shake my head sadly. Not only do you die in one hit, you can't hit things above you so you have to do a ridiculous double jump to get over the thing and then throw a bunch of knives downward. There are blind jumps everywhere, enemies randomly pop out of the ground forcing you to memorize where they come out, and you can't change your direction in midair so all you can do when you jump off of that ledge and see that flying zombie plant racing towards you, all you can do is scream NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! and watch your Prinny explode.
And this isn't even the hard part. After each level is a stupidly hard boss. Remember you die in one hit. They die in several dozen. And the only way to get a hit on the boss is to pound on it's head from above and then hit it while it's stunned. Once again, it sounds easy. However most bosses have the ability to hit things above them, and if you so much as touch the boss, the scarf is going to another Prinny. So after fighting a boss you're likely to have lost upwards of 100 lives in just that one level.
Needless to say this game is freakishly hard. Yet for some reason I'm frustrating minute of it. I guess I must be crazy or something.
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