Candice DeBébé's Scandalous Secrets

Candice is back! TL:DR Good Stuff: -unique artstyle -excelent soundtracks 10-15 hours of solid gameplay -reasonably difficult but not imposible Bad Stuff: -weapon balance not perfect -sometimes glitchy and buggy In this new instalment, the humour is as trashy as ever, the story (which follows directly from the first game) manages to push the limit on how ridiculous it can get and the art style and music remain just as creative and unique as in the first game. However, the game plays quite differently. For starters, the endless spam of goofy 3d-inflatable projectiles in the first game is replaced your typical 2d-action-platformer mechanics, though the wide variety of characters and abilities makes it far more complex than the first game. Most notably, the game as a whole is a lot more difficult, but at least there are numerous checkpoints. All in all, there is a surprising amount of gameplay for what is essentially a joke of a game. Completing it in a few hours like the first game is doable, but it is impossibly hard unless you perform all the side quests to obtain the upgraded weapons and rank up your characters, which takes a good 10-15 hours. That being said, the weapons are not very well balanced (Candice's Dark B*tch Bullet is incredibly overpowered while Sebodore as a whole is mostly useless) and I did run across a few crashes and game-breaking bugs (such as getting the airsip stuck on top of the docks and having to jump-glitch from the mountain to get to it in order to progress) but they were far and few and generally did not affect the gameplay experience. Definitely reccomend it (along with the first game) if you want an out-of-this world experience

I have finally gotten the time to play the game and I just had to stop playing it. I stopped playing at the ice cave area. I got frustrated when I kept dying by the enemies that I couldn’t kill which were a snowman and a snowflake thing. Like, even though you have infinite lives, there’s just no way that I’m going to waste my time trying to beat that level ever again. PROS - Music in the game is top notch, yet again. Considering that one person most likely made the music, I felt that some of the songs are really good. - I liked how linear and straightforward the game is - There were different characters that you could play which was cool - Full of voice acting - Original story CONS - When I was playing the game, I also felt like I heard some of these lines before. Basically, we were just being fed no effort lines from the first game. The first time when Candice is talking to Shani, I got it, the developer even stats it in the game saying “Haven’t I heard this before?” So, why add many more lines from the first game within candies story? - Checkpoints suck because a lot of them have an enemy in the vicinity where you basically get hurt once you spawn... - World map levels are way too big for their own good. The place to fight your sister is great and the ice place was positioned good as well but walk below and there’s nothing for like 30 secs or something until you hit an invisible wall. Could have used some direction when I was told that I need to fight her. - Houses are now planes which is ok I guess and it makes it easier to make but before they were 3d. - Wall climbing is just not very good. - No option to change sound of music. It would always play a bit louder than the voice acting or it was loud enough that it was distracting when trying to hear what the character was saying. Yes, I can read the text but there needs to be balance. - Pretty much a 2d platformer now I’d prefer to just listen to the devs music than play the game. Might have to watch someone beat the game now. :-/ EDIT Dec 2, 2019 I have not came back to this game since my review for this game that I made over one year ago. I was put off by what happened and the game couldn't pull me into it's story. I would not recommend this game to my friends as I feel as it is not worth their time so I will have to unfortunately not recommend this to other people. I'm sorry. I wish there was a way to be both yes and no because I don't enjoy the game but it's price point is okay where someone could give it a try and see if they like it. Also, I feel bad not recommending when it's a cheap indie game that I think is made by one person so I'm going to give it a thumbs up.

I've never left a steam review before but I have a story to share. I've played the first candice debebe game several times, shown it to friends, I honest to god even have a crappy power point i made about it for a fun presentation night i had with friends once, but I had never played the second and third games. I also have a terrible old frankenstein PC that has been standing on its last legs for at least five years, and i've had this thing for well over a decade now, with an hdd ripped out of a terrible laptop that was bad when it was purchased in 2008, an old old graphics card, and other pieces from scrap pcs my brother and i scavenged when we built it. Somehow, it has survived me... until this game. I was ready to take a look at the rest of the candice debebe trilogy with some friends, booted it up, and started streaming it on discord. Finally, with her last breath, as I tried to load the dialogue after the first platforming level of this game, everything stopped responding, and my PC crashed. This isn't new, with a pc as old as this I'm used to things crashing, but this time... she never turned back on. I suspect my PSU finally went kaput but I'm also mostly hoping its that and not HDD failure. God bless candice debebe, what a way for my PC to finally kick the bucket.

The soundtrack will never leave my head. I'm not sure that the game is "good" in any conventional sense, but it's a game that will stick with me... well, forever, I'm afraid. If ANYONE else had made this game, it would probably have become yet another miserable, forgettable pile of junk made by a dev that didn't really care. However, this dev cared. Maybe a little too much, really. Somehow, against all odds, I am still fearfully waiting for the next installment. La la laaa...

Yes

The first game bought me into the world of Candice. The second one, as hard as many moments were, kept me here.

Candice is back yo

Great sequel with equally fantastic graphics and soundtrack. Platforming stages require some getting used to, but the story more than compensates for it.

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This is a worthy sequel. The story for this game is still good though I liked the one in the first game better. You get introduced to a couple of new characters such as Sebodore, a moody goth that becomes a playable character. Indeed, you get to play a total of 5 different characters with various abilities. Unlike the first game, the gameplay is pure 2D platforming/shooting, but I like this a lot more so I'd say that this is an improvement. While some characters are a bit on the weak side (Sebodore, blah) others are pretty powerful like Candice, and Megaz is especially helpful since her double jump allows her to reach new areas. The soundtrack is still excellent and hilarious. In fact, I think I like this one more than the first game's in terms of overall catchy tunes. If you loved the first game you will definitely love this one.