That stupid dickhead right there is the main character! Are you excited yet, to play as a stupid dickhead? You should be! Chronos Twin is
EnjoyUp's first ever game, originally in development for the GBA, then shifted to DS as GBA fell down the toilet. At its core, Chronos Twin is a platformer. Runnin-wait.. walking, jumping, shooting, blah blah blah. But the game has a shocking soap opera twist! As the introduction storyline tries so very hard to explain, a bad guy (or 'A THING' as the game calls it) decides to powerwalk into the universe one day and wreck up the joint by existing in two time periods at once. Yes. What? Somehow this leads to the main characters brother being killed. Let's get busy.
Some tranny in a 1980's jogging suit, a bitter Yoda clone and a gang of constipated owls build a device that'll let you also roam around in the past AND present at the exact same time, because it's the only way the bad guy, A THING, can be defeated. And away you go, have a fun, enjoy! The top screen is the current time, the bottom screen is the past. As you move around, your character will perform the same actions in the different times at once. Did you like that sentence? I sure did. So you'll need to be constantly keeping an eye out, two even, on both screens. The really fun part though, is that it seems a lot has changed in all the years! If a platform exists in the present time, it may not have been there in the past. Different enemies will come at you during different points in the same level, you'll often be swamped with enemies on both screens at once. X button shoots your gun in the present, B button for the past. And if you get hurt in one time period, it affects the other! If you get crushed by a falling rock or some kind of A THING in the past, your present self will also have a sad face.
This mutates what would have been a fairly sigh worthy platformer into one of the most
brutal games ever. Once you get past the initial stage to get you used to your eyeballs bleeding, the game NEVER LETS UP. They've put a handy warning buzzer on each screen to let you know of danger if you're not keeping up with one screen, but eventually it becomes like a broken game of Operation and won't ever stop buzzing. SO MUCH SHIT TO LOOK OUT FOR. Later on you'll get access to an ability that'll let you stop time on one screen so you can say, move a box or activate a switch so your other time guy can move ahead, and that's kinda nice I guess. Everyone loves switches and boxes. Imagine if you pressed a switch and a box appeared, there would be a celebration across the land. Chronos Twin also spits acid coated jagged glass in your face by providing VERY FEW energy containers around the joint, and hiding extra lives in the most obscure locations. If you finish a level with one hit left, you'll start the next level with that same amount of health. GOOD LUCK.
If you hate yourself, this is a fan-bloody-tastic little game. The graphics are kinda dated (and apparently it uses some
stolen sprites from various Capcom games for lol) since it was originally a GBA game. Man, it's hard enough to follow on two full screens, imagine squinting on a GBA split-screen. Though the animation is fluid, and there are some nice futuristic high-tech touches such as moving clouds (gasp). And um. Statues of Goku. Music's alright, it doesn't go anywhere and kinda just exists, but it suits the game. So yeah, I dunno, it came out in Europe about two months ago, and made a brief apperance in Australia and New Zealand. The publisher Oxygen Games half-arsed it, with low supplies and no marketing at all. There are no plans for an American release at this point in time. But like
Mr. Slime Jr. and
whatever the hell this is supposed to be, it'll probably remain that way. It gets the Infernal viral marketing seal of approval, if only for being the hardest game since forever. It'd be perfect sitting next to Contra 4. The extremely bad English translation (I think the developers are Spanish) adds a certain charm to it all too. "A thing came out from nothing. He didn't know who was him." "We scratch that thing let alone stop it. It's as if it come from another time and dimensions."
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Download it today! Or if you're looking to actually buy it,
DVDCrave have recently slashed the price in half, down to $26 AUD (that's only about $22 US). They ship worldwide. :cmb:
