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- Dejobaan Games
- Dejobaan Games
- Dejobaan Games
- Dejobaan Games
Drunken Robot Pornography
Released On: Feb 19, 2014
66
6.8
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
66
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
66
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
If you're looking for non-stop action, giant robots and a challenging FPS, Drunken Robot Pornography will not disappoint you.
While the difficulty curve is smartly placed overall, there are some levels where you'll feel you've hit a brick wall and will have to try over and over again. Still, the leaderboards will offer dedicated players a reason to keep coming back and doing exactly that.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
53% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
21% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
26% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
53% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
21% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
26% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Drunken Robot Pornography is a game that is bursting with style but somewhat lacking in substance. After a while the gameplay gets a bit repetitive as, after all, each stage is essentially a glorified boss fight.
Average gameplay time is around two minutes but it is as intense as Lindsay Lohan’s parties. [CD-Action 05/2014, p.64]
Level difficulty is a bit uneven at times and DRP can get repetitive, but there's still a lot of fun to be had here.
It lost me in the mess and noise and the punishing and arbitrary deaths, and the one-note nature of the single-gun shooting and the tactics against the Titans didn't grab me in the slightest.
Drunken Robot Pornography is a 3D FPS Bullet Hell Precision Platformer. Not only is the name a mouthful, but so is the genre.
According to the Steam description:
“You're Reuben Matsumoto. You used to own a bar. You gave your robot bartender, Tim, sentience. He went nuts, stole your other 12 bots, and burned down your bar. He's attacking Boston with 20,000 drones, 40 Titans, and his lieutenants, the 12 Drunken Robot Centerfolds.”
Oddly, the Robot centerfolds thing isn’t quite accurate; the in-game descriptions of them suggest that most of them were random robots which did things around the bar, with only a few of them being “exotic dancers”.
The game comes complete with a rap video in the menu screen, which is hilarious, well executed, and surprisingly catchy. That isn’t the only song in the game, either; there’s also a parody of the Kingston Trio’s M.T.A. (this one set on the MSTA – the Metropolitan Sky Transit Authority). The soundtrack in general is decent, but the two songs really stand out, and, given that every time a video game has actually done something like that I have felt impressed, it really makes me wonder why more video games don’t use songs in games.
In any case, the game’s plotline is light but funny. Reuben Matsumoto is a gritty-voiced sociopath. His sentient, living starfish suit – sadly never seen on-screen – is quirky and provides amusing commentary. You get some random voicemails throughout the game from a reporter, your uncle, your friend who helped you with the robots, and your nemesis, Tim.
All of this is fun.
The actual gameplay is more questionable, though.
The core of the gameplay for most of the levels is running/flying around the level on your jetpack (which has limited fuel per jump). You can gather up to four gun upgrades in each level (though many have fewer), which make you shoot faster/better/more powerfully/more spread shots (with limited ammo). There are a few powerups that a few levels have, most notably invincibility, a bomb, and a an orbital friendship rainbow cannon (which definitely isn’t a MLP reference, no sir).
The way the game works is that the player runs around shooting at one or more titans who spawn in the level. The goal is to kill all the titans. You do so by blasting them to bits, shooting off the outermost portions of them at first, and working your way inwards. You must shoot everything off of the core of the titan (or at least, ALMOST everything) in order to kill it. The net result of this is running around a 3D titan while blasting bits off of it.
As a bullet hell game, the game throws a bunch of independent enemies at the player, along with having the titan itself often unleash a hail of gunfire/bombs/ect. at the player. You have limited health, and standing still can often result in your death in a matter of seconds in some levels – or even in just a moment if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time in a few places.
It starts off easy enough – almost too easy, really, but the idea is to get you used to the idea of how the game works. The first eight levels or so are all quite simple, and you’d think “Oh, this isn’t going to be so bad.”
Things then start going to hell.
The first real nasty level I ran into was around level 19. But the game has a very odd difficulty curve. And this is where we get into the flaw of this game.
Sometimes, people complain about games being badly designed when they really mean they’re badly programmed. Drunken Robot Pornography is a well-programmed, poorly-designed game.
The problem comes from the mix of genres I noted above. A 3D FPS bullet hell game suffers from a problem – you have a restricted field of view. This means if attacks are coming from above, below, or the sides, you can’t see them coming. Worse, some of the attacks clip through the scenery, meaning that if you’re behind a blocking wall, they can still hit you even though you can’t shoot back at them (or see them coming, in some cases).
Likewise, as many, many people know, precision platforming and the first-person perspective mix extremely poorly. The problem is that you can’t see where your feet are, and if you need to be looking in another direction when you jump (and you almost invariably do in this game), you can’t tell where you’re going to land. This is especially bad when you’re floating around through the air on your jetpack and need to land on a small launchpad to do so again. This is not helped by the game’s often-frantic pacing, and the fact that you need to continually move while fighting to avoid being destroyed by a hail of enemies and gunfire.
Finally, a few of the levels (most notably Tightrope, a late-game level) have extremely, extremely tight time limits.
The net result of this is that, even more than two years after its launch, according to the final level’s scoreboard, only 303 people had beaten the game. Only 1 in 40 people who beat the first level beat the last one.
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This is a type of game to which you can sit down for a few mins to kill some robots. The humor of the game is typical Dejobaan quality, it doesn't disappoint. The soundtrack is amazing too.
There are a lots of user generated content, and most of them are actually fun to play.
Now the bad things:
It seems that Dejobaan just can't balance their games properly. I had to switch to easy mode, because all of the later levels are really annoying and unfair. Still easy mode has the same lame time limits so you are f****d anyway.
You will be killed by things you can't see or run out of time if you haven't collected the - basically - mandatory powerups that help you kill robots. If you don't follow the developers intention when completing a level, you will fail.
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Summary Bullet-hell, boss-battle, first-person shooter, with giant-robots, martinis and jetpacks. YES. Drink the cocktails. Fight the titans. Make your own Titans. Drink your friend's cocktails.
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Feb 19, 2014
Developer:
- Dejobaan Games
Publisher: Dejobaan Games
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