Devolver Bootleg

These games suck. There's easily accessible out-of-bounds glitches, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hitboxes, and is a complete and total scam And it's totally worth your time

This was UFO 50 before it was cool

[quote]Just saying, but I do have a curator page. If you like my remarks about games, you can find more of them here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44130985-TDP%27s-Gaming-Escapades [/quote] Remember E3? The "Electronic Entertainment Expo"? Where big gaming companies themselves planned for and held big, flashy press conferences announcing all sorts of games? That was THE gaming event to look forward to, even more than the yearly game awards. Oh how I miss those days when everything was not an online presentation like now. Hearing a battalion of people like myself who were passionate about video games going absolutely mental and screaming at the top of their lungs over a reveal, gave me a sense of joy and utter hype that none of the presentations of today can replicate it. And this is without mentioning the production values of those conferences which was quite high at times. Nowadays we just got stale and mostly online presentations, hosted by people who don't seem to have a shred of excitement for what they are presenting and are just forcing themselves to look that way, co-hosted by people who don't have a strand of connection to video games and are just there for pop culture jokes and getting the attention of sponsors and non-gamers, and have the very same people who make the games as most of their audience and not gamers. Oh, you think I'm wrong? Show me one person in recent years who has acted nearly as joyful as Ikumi Nakamura in E3 2019 while she was showcasing Ghostwire: Tokyo. In the final years of E3, Devolver Digital joined the other big companies by offering online, pre-recorded presentations. They were mostly slam dunks on gaming industry and their unethical business practices, with some game announcements sprinkled in-between. Those presentations were highly liked and very well recieved, except for the third and final one as their successful narration was retconned and the new jokes were clearly not landing. In the company's E3 2019 showcase, Devolver Bootleg was announced; A collection of significantly watered down versions of the publisher's most successful games as a joke towards the bootlegging scene. It was released with a very cheap price and many, myself included, flocked to the store page to buy the game. It felt like a nice joke and a nice game to go with at the time, but now? I honestly believe it was a clever marketing tactic to make the most out of Devolver's popularity. You know, my view towards Devolver has shifted a lot since many years ago and my almost fanboy-ish behavior. Yes, they publish [i][b]really[/b][/i] good games and have brought back a literal gem in gaming history (Metal Wolf Chaos), but were their jokes against the gaming industry's business practices really out of good faith, or a disguised attempt at doing the same thing with less backlash? Because there's a lot that implies the latter. They announced Lootbox Coin, a literal piece of worthless plastic, sold at random prices to joke about cryptocurrencies and yet we know some people actually bought it. They have a fictional CFO named Fork Parker, a satirical depiction of gaming CEOs and their greed, who showed up in the Devolver Tumble Time mobile game to sell you insane microtransactions such as literal level skips. They had their final presentation recorded on a VHS and sold as a "Non Fu**withable Tape", an obvious NFT joke, although we don't know if it was even real or was sold to whom. And here we have a collection of [i][b]allegedly[/b][/i] bootleg games sold to us, which means we willingly bought a bunch of bad games and held onto it because of funny haha advertisement. Although... I really shouldn't call them bootlegs, should I? The word "Bootleg" has a broad meaning as a whole, but on the topic of video games, it mostly refers to illegal and/or unauthorized recreations of popular games or sequels to them, without proper care put into their creation process. Bootleg games usually steal most of their assets from other games, and almost always are horribly-made products if you try to measure their quality. No one in their right mind would unironically buy a bootleg with their hard-earned money and keep onto it. This is why I firmly believe the games in this product are not bootlegs. From the graphical style to the music and gameplay mechanics, these are all original games that were intentionally made to be inferior to their source materials in a failed attempt to imitate bootlegs. What we have here is bad and incredibly shallow games that have the potential to be expanded upon and become actually enjoyable full games, and this is something that never happens with bootlegs. At best, we can call these "demakes" rather than whatever the publisher wanted them to be. Let's forget about the false advertisement and focus on the product we have at hand. Devolver Bootleg features 8 different games with extremely low playtimes, with two of them only being playable in a multiplayer format, meaning you can be done with the whole package in about under an hour. In addition to that fact, we have already established that these games were intentionally created to be bad or shallow. Sure, there are visible signs that shows the developer (Doinksoft) has actually put in some effort and care while making this product, such is the case with Ape Out Jr being the best game of the bunch, but there's still nothing in Devolver Bootleg that makes it actually enjoyable. The experience will become utterly tedious and boring after a short while and getting over the joke, no matter what. Therefore, whatever we have here is absolutely not worth it, even on heavy discounts that bring its price down to as low as nearly a dollar. Seriously, think about it. You can either buy Devolver Bootleg or get other games like Bejeweled 3, One Finger Death Punch, Vampire Survivors, Plants vs Zombies GOTY, Overlord, Voidigo or Half-Life: Blue Shift for the exact same price and yet much more fun and lengthier gameplay! And don't get me started on what games you can buy with discounted prices because I don't think it can ever win against the likes of Deus Ex GOTY. I seriously cannot recommend paying for a collection of games that were made with the intention of being bad, because what I will be getting in the end will be badly made games that I will not enjoy playing. I also cannot recommend supporting a company just because they made a joke about the gaming industry or something, as I am still paying for what they are offering to me. In my eyes, the product I am purchasing with my hard-earned money must have some value to it and be able to entertain me as its consumer. I don't see anything in Devolver Bootleg that fits what I said, so I heavily recommend you to spend you money wisely and on something that actually has an entertainment value. [h2]TL;DR[/h2] Devolver Bootleg is a product that does not have any actual value aside of its joke towards bootlegging scene. A game that was intentionally designed to be bad as a joke, is still a bad game.

It's really stupid and I love it.

x-- 8/10 --x Perfect smaller mini games of their bigger bro counterparts

Heard about this game back when it was announced a couple of years ago, and it was in the back of my mind since then. It is styled as an old-school 80's or 90's bootlegged software collection of games, and draws from IPs that are existing Devolver Digital games. The funny thing is that while many of these games draw inspiration from these Devolver-published games, they also generally copy a lot of old arcade and NES-era games in their execution and play style. I haven't "completed" the game, but I've messed around on it for a couple of hours. Here's my thoughts on each included game, after spending some time with them: Enter the Gun Dungeon: Bootleg Enter the Gungeon. The game plays a bit more like a lot of old arcade games where you navigate connected rooms and can move up, right, left or down into the next room, kind of like Smash TV. You are getting shot at constantly so you need to constantly move while shooting back at enemies. Pretty tough, but probably pretty well-made. Hotline Milwaukee: Bootleg Hotline Miami. Being a big fan of those games, this was the one I was really most excited to try out in this set. My first impressions were mixed because while this does look and feel like Hotline Miami in NES form, it also lacks a lot of the modern furnishings that made the original game so fun and great. You can't knock enemies down with doors, you can sometimes attack enemies through walls and sometimes can't for reasons I can't explain, and there's no lock-on feature. But it pays off later on with a little twist and the final boss that is reminiscent of the boss battles in the OG game. 21 levels, # 12 is a pain and the boss is hard. I am still trying to beat the boss. Ape Out Jr.: Bootleg Ape Out. This game is nothing like the original Ape Out, but functions more like Donkey Kong Jr. And that's fine, because it works out pretty wonderfully as a DK Jr. clone. Shootyboots: Bootleg Downwell. I have Downwell but haven't gotten around to trying that game yet. I didn't spend a ton of time with this one, admittedly, but it seems like it might be pretty similar to the actual game it is based off of. I guess, based off of what I've read elsewhere, it has less of a campaign and is more like this endless mode. Luftrousers 3: Bootleg Luftrausers. I also have Luftrausers but haven't gotten to try that game yet. Luftrousers 3 is actually pretty fun, though. You have 3 airplanes (lives) on an aircraft carrier and control one, fighting enemy planes and boats on a side-scrolling background that loops. You can occasionally buy new power-ups from a shop. Absolvers: Bootleg Absolver. It seems like a pretty big downgrade from the original game, honestly. I have played something like this before on the NES, but the name of that game escapes me. It requires 2 players to play, and you each pick a character and punch and kick each other. We're talking pre-Street Fighter. Cat Game: Bootleg Gato Roboto. Surprisingly decent, it is a pretty blatant clone of Castlevania, though. Instead of the robot suit, the cat (same cat, btw) has a suit of armor. Also pretty tough. Pikuniku Ball-Stars: Bootleg Pikuniku. Similar to Absolvers, it requires 2 players to play it. And it is also probably quite a downgrade from the original game. However, I will say that this might be kind of, sort of, fun. Maybe. You choose a character from Pikuniku and play basketball, trying to use your round body, noodly legs and a spring to bounce the ball into the air and knock it through the hoop. Don't ask me how they're playing basketball when they have no arms. When taken as a whole, Devolver Bootleg is a fun and goofy little collection that fans of Devolver's other games will enjoy. $5 isn't a bad price, but if you can get it on sale then that would be even more reasonable. If you're getting this because you're expecting another really solid all-around game from Devolver Digital, though, then I would caution against it. What you'll find here still isn't quite on the same level as most of the other games they've published. It's for funsies. (EDIT: I left my PC on all day at the boss fight in Hotline Milwaukee, just so I could come home and attempt to beat it. I'm pleased to announce that I did, in fact, beat that boss. I'm not sure which is the bigger miracle, that I got past that or that my computer stayed on that whole time so I didn't have to replay 20 levels just to get back there.)

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Masterpiece.

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