Gekibo - Gekisha Boy
Dollar store Peter ParkerGenre: adventure - point n click
Publisher: Irem
Year: 1992
System: PCE
Gameplay Score: 1
Gameplay Notes:
Plays like Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures or maybe Pokemon Snap. The objective is to move a cursor over interesting things on screen and take a picture to score points. The cursor moves slowly and most encounters are fleeting, so you have to track your target or otherwise preposition the cursor. The cursor reticle is also small by default but can be widened before long. It's also a platformer where you can move back and forth and jump with a very high leap. There are some environmental hazards that will stun you and cause you to lose film, which is a previous commodity. Pictures of particularly strange phenomenon will reward you with points and with a roll of five shots of film. If that sounds like a paper thin set of gameplay elements, you're not wrong. It's not egregiously bad, but isn't a deep experience by any stretch. Getting hit once effectively ends your run so that's not fun either.
Level Design Score: 1
Level Design Notes:
Each stage is the same every time, so play each stage a couple of times to memorize it and snap photos of the most interesting stuff.
Theme Score: 0
Theme Notes:
You're a discount Peter Parker with a mean boss who has a very particular eye for photos. He also has god-like time travel abilities to allow you as many retries as you'd like. The world feels like an irreverent early 90s Nickelodeon cartoon. Not my favorite. There's some sexual content, like a flasher, violence like witnessing a mugging, and vulgarity such as graffiti with F*** and Kill. I award you no points, ya edgy hooligans.
Art Style Score: 1
Art Style Notes:
I hate this 90s edgy art style. It's colorful and animates well, so it's fine on a technical level, but man is it offputting. Blech
Audio Score: 2
Audio Notes:
An annoying song plays during gameplay. Not much else to report.
Overall Score: 21
Review ID: 8054
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