![]() To give the proceedings some loose story, a Grandpa tells a bed-time tale to his grandson and seems to be having fun making this up as he goes along. Ruining that kid’s birthday party was a delight. Within some puzzles you’ll be given the opportunity to change up the mayhem, from dropping rocks on dinosaurs, to raining oil to spread fire and even poison to kill off crops. ![]() Snow makes everything slippery underfoot and turns humans into snowballs, then finally with Tornado you can literally whip up a storm, gathering up people and items to plonk them down wherever you please. Allowing you to zap buttons and to shock umbrellas out of the humans’ hands and frighten them out from under cover. Don’t think too hard about it: you’re controlling a cardboard cloud. Thunder gives Cloudy a lightening attack (I know. To aid in our hero in his quest, progression will unlock further abilities. ![]() Popping up from time to time, his levels are often the most challenging, requiring timing and patience to complete. He also has a penchant for intricate hideouts, poolside parties and laser tracking missiles. Who’ll Stop the RainĮvery hero needs a nemesis and Cloudy’s is Doctor Dryspell, a dastardly man who hates the rain and only speaks in rhyme. One of the best and playable rewards here is an arcade machine featuring a Doom-clone arcade game entitled FPC! Horror has never looked so cute. There are collectibles to be hoarded and later equipped, with items created or found displayed at the Homely Abode, Cloudy’s base, this is where you can change their appearance, starting with the colour of your choice, re-drawing that happy face, to customising Cloudy to your liking: hats, glasses and accessories from guitars to chainsaws allowing you to create a look all your own. With one of the most satisfying aspects being the lack of punishment for failure, coupled with no time-outs, and the oft-repeated advice to remember to “have fun”, it’s clear where this games’ priorities are. ![]() He'll arrive with his weaponry and sunglasses-wearing goons to take out with the power of weather, in a series of brilliantly bizarre encounters that are less 007 and more H207.The game eases you in by requesting you to rain on all the “hoomans” or putting out all the fires, simple tasks that showcase the simple delight of raining disaster to create chaos later, the game ramps up the challenge with more complex criteria, from avoiding a very grumpy sun, to not soaking anyone at all, dodging homing missiles, achieving a high score, gathering pine-cones and solving increasingly intricate puzzles, all are added to your to-do list. It gets even more bananas when the story introduces a weather-hating antagonist too, by the name of Doctor Dryspell, who you'll need to vanquish if you ever want to reach Seattle. It means that Rain On Your Parade continually surprises with its plethora of ways to have fun - and reign down chaos on unsuspecting hoomans. I found myself regularly chuckling away at the developer's impressive ability to combine the weather-based gameplay with other genres and mechanics. There's even a lengthy Zelda-inspired level that is truly brilliant. While Rain On Your Parade might not be the longest game, the sheer variety presented within the Rain On Your Parade's circa four-hour run time is honestly staggering, with few ideas used more than once and levels pulling from plenty of different source materials including games like Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hills, and Katamari Damacy. (Image credit: Unbound Creations) Seattle Reign
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