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Playing new mystery game "Duggy" on PS4 = o
This is the first time I've encountered a PS4 game about which I could find pretty much zero information. The screenshots on the PS Store showed minimalist but not bad sort of Dig Dug-like pixel art. I wrote it off, but later it started nagging at me. I had to know. : P
Well, I bought it. It is sort of a Dig Dug clone, but:
- Says you can use the stick or the directional buttons to move, but in fact the d-pad does nothing, so you have to use the left analog stick
- Starts losing sound after you've thrown 12 pick axes, so if you're constantly moving and firing, you just hear the occasional tortured bleep as part of a sound manages to get through
- The monsters have no AI and just bounce back and forth between whatever walls happen to be around them; the only threat in the game is that you will eventually get bored and blunder into one simply because your attention wandered
The pixel art and music are pleasant enough.
The developer is a solo German indie dev operating under the trade name "Nerdvision Games" https://www.nerdvision.net/ ; they have a game on Steam--Balloon Girl, a sort of Balloon Fight clone; that game's also on Switch and PS4 along with another game of theirs, Super Drunken Guy, a Super Mario Bros rip-off. ... Huh Duggy has apparently been on Switch since 2022. But it just this week came out on PS4--and they don't mention the game at all on their own web site, and they haven't made a promo video for it, unlike their other games. Super stealth release! |
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| | | | The author was kind enough to get in touch with me even after I was a bit unsparing on their game; they're @whorubeta , and amazingly enough they've worked on an emulator for The Matrix Online, the game I became the last designer on. What are the odds?? Whoa. And apparently Duggy was ported to PS4 from Switch, so it probably has fewer problems there. ; ) |
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| | | | Specifically that's on YT: https://youtube.com/@whorubeta |
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| | | | Also, I have to say they have some chutzpah for getting Nintendo to put out a SMB parody/clone (*Super Drunken Guy*) on their own platform. ; D |
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