
MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.
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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is "committing to the bit" so hard that it hurts.
It's a sequel to a game series that doesn't exist, complete with lore and a fictional development team. It's a game where match-3 is used not just for combat, but for lockpicking doors, debating robots, and swallowing a bunch of diamonds in front of a notorious gem thief so that he can't steal them first.
It is, all genre elements considered, a match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania, and it's rad as hell.
20 years ago, Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion emerged as a smash-hit genre fusion, casting fan-favorite protagonist Jack Briar in a fast-paced puzzle adventure.
8 years ago, Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 was announced on the biggest stage in gaming.
This is what happened next.
A match-3 metroidvania--or matchroidvania --exploring the development of a sequel to a game series that doesn't exist.
Another wild genre fusion from the developers behind Clickolding, I Am Your Beast, and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
A story about sequels, game development, and the horrible, beautiful things that happen when the foundation of your reality falls apart.
Part match-3 metroidvania, part choice-based narrative, part survival horror parody, part joyful wheel-spinning nightmare.
A game that could only work with a polka soundtrack, provided by award-winning composer David Mason (Dredge, Life Eater).
Committing to the bit
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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An absolutely fantastic Match-3 battler with a humor filled saga. Plenty of opportunities to tickle the simple brain bits by collecting traits and going through the game like a choose-your-own-adventure book. Most of all, it is an insightful journey of game development that has been ongoing since 2020. iykyk 10/10
Like pretty much all Strange Scaffold games it's a simple idea executed really well. The puzzles are fun, the story is dumb in the best way and the soundtrack is great.
I came for a crazy spoof mashup of Resident Evil and Dino Crisis as a match-3 puzzle game. [spoiler]I stayed for the engaging and heartfelt story about game development, customer and developer demands, and burnout and franchise fatigue all from the perspective of the game characters themselves.[/spoiler]
Shockingly good. Much better than you would expect from something called "Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion III." I love it.
Really fun framing around a match-3 game. It's combined with a sort of visual novel with branching paths and earn-able traits to unlock different choices along the path. The sotry is humorous and 4th wall breaking with the fact it's a video game, giving the main character a bit of an existential crisis. Almost wish 1 and 2 were actual games, but it would ruin the idea of it. Here's my first video for the game of myself playing through it: https://youtu.be/671RwyBsrcI
Забавная и необычная вариация на тему три-в-ряд. Советую, в особенности тем, кто разочаровался в недавнем переиздании ПазлКвеста и хочет чего-то свежего и приятного.
If you like laughing and having fun, give Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Rampage III a shot!
One of the lines in the game's description is simply: Committing to the Bit. And yes. This game does commit to the bit. As it spoils early in, this game is the third game in a series that doesn't exist - involving Resident Evil-styled super mad science, primarily with dinosaurs. The game itself doesn't exist either. And yet it does. It screams its existence to you, deep from the bottom of a broken well. CRDM3 wants to entertain you, it wants to make you laugh, it wants you to feel things about what it means to be imperfect. And it wants you to consider what it's like to pour yourself into something - and all the glorious awful things that implies. CRDM3 commits to that bit. And it wants to bring you along for the ride. To laugh, to cry, to contemplate about a weird past that definitely existed and continues to exist.
This is a great game! Took me 23 hours to and was a lot of fun. The writing is very funny, especially if you've ever suffered through '90s PS1 games with their Radical 'Tude. On one hand it's match 3 for combat and saving rolls, which is not too complicated but they do mix up a lot for each encounter. It's always turn based, no real time anything thank gawd. On the other hand it's a branching visual novel, fully invested in being a sequel to two games that were never released, and everything in the game is meta-aware of how they're in a cancelled game and how crappy the game industry is. By exploring different branches you open up new skills (traits) and get new items and upgrade mats. Honestly, I had to keep a Joplin checkbox tree note to fully track everything and would suggest something like that. If there's one failing in the game for Teh Casuals it's that it's very easy to miss an unexplored choice three levels down if you haven't been taking notes. This was absolutely worth what I paid for it!
[h3]マッチ3パズル×ADV×メタフィクション[/h3] 〈ストーリーの概要〉 政府から派遣されたエージェントJ.J.ハードウェルは悪のマッドサイエンティストであるハンカン・ドックライト3世を捕まえるため恐竜がうろつく洋館へ潜入した。 だが捜査を進めていたJ.J.は、この世界がゲームでありバグをどうにかしないとエンディングにたどり着けないということを知ってしまい… 〈ゲーム内容〉 基本はノベルパート→パズルパート→ノベルパートの繰り返しで、合間に拠点でパズルで使えるアイテムを買ったり体力やアイテムの所持数を増やしたりできる。 ノベルパートでは選んだ選択肢によってストーリーが分岐したり、アイテムが貰えたり、新たなtraits(特徴・特質)を獲得してそれまでロックされていた選択肢が選べるようになったりする。 Escキーでメニューが開き、フローチャート・所持アイテム・traitsの確認と拠点への帰還ができる。 パズルパートはマッチ3パズルでの対戦形式で、状況に応じて「相手の体力を0にする」か「進行度を100%にする」と次に進める。 揃ったブロックはスキルを使うのに消費する資源として貯まっていき、スキルを使って相手にダメージを与えるか、自分を回復するか、進行度を上昇させるか、戦闘中の駆け引きが楽しい。 パズルをクリアする度にお金が貰える。選択肢埋めで周回しているとすぐに貯まるのでアイテムはどんどん使おう。 ゲームのタイトルだけ見るとシリーズものっぽいが、ストアの説明文にあるようにこのゲーム自体が「存在しないゲームの続編」なので3からやって大丈夫。 メトロイドヴァニアと銘打っている割に[b]アクション要素は全くない[/b]のでそこは注意が必要である。 〈良かった点〉 パズルとADVを合わせるという発想が斬新だった。 パズル自体はよくあるマッチ3パズルだが、色々なスキルとギミックが出てきて飽きなかった。 ストーリーは全体を通してコミカルな雰囲気で、ユニークなキャラクターとゲームのあるあるネタとゲーム開発の哀愁がたくさん盛り込まれた結果、独特な空気感が出ていて面白かった。 〈気になった点〉 ノベルパートでまだ選んでいない選択肢があってもフローチャートから確認できない。そのためメモを取りながら進めないとどこに選んでいない選択肢が残っているのか後でわからなくなる。 また、パズル後のノベルパートの選択肢埋めをするのに毎回パズルをクリアしないといけないのは結構面倒だった。
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