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Sweet agony
ChrisBarraclough from from London,
8th April, 2008
If you like the idea of dying over and over again, in a variety of deeply unpleasant ways, then Zack & Wiki is for you. It may look like a kiddies game, but it's clearly been tailored for the ultimate in masochistic pain-huggers, who take great delight in beating themselves in the crotch with a breeze block every night. Most games will reward you for your curiosity and exploration, by revealing secret items or hidden areas, but Zack & Wiki will rip open your chest and yank out your still-pulsing heart, before smashing it with a brick and [CENSORED] on the bloody remains. Simply clicking on a ladder or a flicking a switch can result in you being eaten by cannibals, crushed by a statue, turned into ice, stripped of your flesh by a stream of lava, or even have you plummet out of a plane to your untimely demise. It is basically a puzzle game, where you have to manipulate the environment in order to reach a chest. There are baddies, but your only way of disposing of them is by ringing a monkey that can fly like a bell - whoever made this game is clearly a fan of C-grade substances, or maybe just a mentalist. And while we're on the subject, what's the point of having a flying monkey as a companion if he never bothers to actually bloody help? The chest is just across a small gap, but instead of getting him to fly over and open it, you have to whittle a small boat out of a pair of pants, then sail down a chute and catch a fish using only an Oxo cube and a Rick Astley CD, and so on and so forth until your brain bleeds out of your eyeballs and you die screaming, the same as Zack. Plus, you can finally be just within reach of the chest, but if you forgot to saw your auntie's leg off at the very start and bring it with you, then you can't melt it down to make a key to unlock the final door. Silly you, back to start. If you like pain and death, and, more importantly, redoing things over and over again until your desire to kill reaches a crescendo, then look no further. One-Sentence Review: What Pin-Head would play if he had a Wii (after completing My Barbie Adventure first, naturally). More at ChrisBarraclough dot com
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