Burger Lord

"Super Smash Burgers" The most fun you can have making pixellated burgers for $2.99. (Unless it's even cheaper than that now.) Burger Lord may look like a certain arcade classic from the 80's, but it's actually got it's own thing going on. Faster, more furious, with MUCH more flexible platform physics, and gratefully not at all stingy on the peppers...because you're gonna need 'em. And I haven't even tried the multiplayer yet. A few cons: No instructions, so check the community pages before you play. Procedurally generated levels lend variety, but occasional make getting to that last burger needlessly difficult. A level timer that should really be on-screen but is invisible. And there's a late-game enemy that all but annihilates the game's balance, and not in the player's favor. I'd love to see some tweaks, but let's be honest, it's an indie game made by one guy, so I'll take the good with the bad. Fun, addictive and $3. 'Nuff said. *EDIT It took me WAY too long to figure out you don't have to finish every burger to advance to the next level, unlike in the classic arcade game. So yeah, instructions are badly needed here imo

ADDICTIVE and recommended. It does not come with instructions, so to save other newbies any confusion: When the level collapses, you want to be standing on a “complete” burger (2 buns + patty minimum). You have a max of 9 peppers, and can replenish one by touching a pepper-sign. This is a wonderful adaptation of the old arcade / Intellivision game “Burger Time”. It adds new elements and maneuvers, making it a better game in my opinion. The enemies are cute, and I even love the subtle sound effect of the doors opening.

This is a quirky alternative to the classic Burgertime and anyone who's ever played it will get the hang of this really quickly. While I do recommend this game, the controls and physics are really janky and need a lot of work. Arguably, that's part of the charm and keeps you coming back to get better at it, but this problem rears its head a little too often at key moments while playing and outstays its welcome in short order. Also, in later levels, the introduction of certain enemy types ratchets the difficulty to an obscenely unfair level where you are just doomed to fail as everything, even your own controls, are against you. The potential was there for this one to be great, but it's merely ok. Still worth checking out for the price, though, at least.

Burger Time es el juego que inmediatamente vino a mi cabeza cuando me crucé con este buen indie que efectivamente, es un tributo al mismo, puntualmente a la versión lanzada para la consola Intellivision. Un muy divertido título de arcade que supo tener varios ports para muchas consolas y al igual que tantos otros, parecía haber quedado en el olvido. Hasta ahora. Manteniendo la línea estética, Burger Lord nos propone una alternativa al gameplay habitual de la franquicia, creada originalmente por la extinta Data East. Esto implica que el desafío no solamente incluye subir y bajar las plataformas tratando de armar prolijas y tentadoras hamburguesas, sino de esquivar – o arrojar al agua – un gran número de enemigos (pepinillos, salchichas, huevos fritos, etc.) que buscan empujarnos constantemente y frenar nuestro avance. Para ponerle un poco más de pimienta (que casualmente es nuestra única «arma» de defensa), todo esto debe realizarse antes que el castillo (generados de manera random) finalmente se hunda. Con dos modos de dificultad disponibles, cada campaña tiene un total de 9 niveles con bastante intensidad y frenesí, en los que deberemos posicionarnos en el mismo escalón que la hamburguesa (completa) para poder pasar de fase. Caso contrario, aunque no terminemos ahogados por caernos al agua ni sometidos por algún snack malévolo de turno, volveremos a empezar todo desde cero. No hay «continues». No hay vidas. Puro desafío arcade duro y puro. A una jugabilidad de por si ágil, se le suma además el hecho de poder disfrutarlo con hasta 3 players en modo cooperativo o PVP. Las melodías y el sonido acompañan cada momento y los gráficos están en la línea de lo que justamente era la consola lanzada por Mattel en 1979. Divertido, dinámico y con una enorme dosis de vitamina old school, Burger Lord es un guiño de ojo a los nostálgicos y al mismo tiempo, a los gamers más contemporáneos, que encontrarán las novedades en su modo de juego como algo positivo. Recomendable, por supuesto.