Spy Fox In: Hold the Mustard

I hate the ones that are just one game

Tags: Shootemup & BulletHell Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Mouse only simplistic schmup. No edutainment value. Just pure entertainment. As an entertainment product it fails to compete. I have dedidated games that can offer a wide variety of age brackets the kind of schmup entertainment they'd want without having to stoop to this dosport with limited feature set. The doodle assets looked okay when this came out, not great, just okay. But nowdadays they suffer quite a bit. This is basically an atari game. Cant recall the name but it is the one where stuff comes from the sky, reach the ground, steal stuff, and slowly make their way back up and you gotta take em out. Other than that you have a reward for picking up power up coins or going through hoops. Thats about it. It is voice acted and the saturday night cartoon vibe is up to this company's standards. However even for 1999 this was starting to look dated. The game did not detect my controller, did not fullscreen correctly and ran identically to the ScummVM version I used to have archived. Unsurprising because this is the same game and also uses ScummVM. All things considered I own the license so I am going to keep it in my library of discarded titles but I do not intend to play this myself, nor do I think I will ever show this to my kids as I think they could be able to tell right away that this is dated and has issues. The storyline is about some evil king kong ripoff guy who owns a mustard factory and wants all ketchup eliminated. Does not really have any relevance with the actual gameplay.

Just a flying game. It only so-so.

Нормальная убивалка времени. Конечно на начальных уровнях хотелось дропнуть по причину неудобного управления и однотипности геймплея. Тир-лист по серии Spy Fox: 1. SPY Fox in: Dry Cereal. 2. SPY Fox in: Cheese Chase. 3. SPY Fox 2: Some Assembly Required. 4. SPY Fox 3: Operation Ozone. 5. SPY Fox in: Hold the Mustard.

When I opened this game I expected a point-and-click adventure. I never played any Spy Fox Games, but decided to buy the collection during the sale and unfortunately started with this one. It's just a shooter in a spaceship as far as I can tell, and it just doesn't do it for me.

It's a cute, lovely, little game, but it's so simple and outdated that I can't recommend it to children. However, a deep gratitude to the developers for their positive contribution to our childhood!

The gameplay is really fun. It's satisfying to move your little aircraft around using the mouse and shoot enemy robots. I only have three cons with this game: 1. This game is almost too easy. I've gotten what feels like quite far in the game, and yet most of the enemies still die in one shot, there aren't nearly enough of them to be overwhelming, and they move really slow. I know that this game was meant for children, and that's probably why they kept it easy, but I wish the difficulty increased more noticeably. 2. I wish this game had more "SPY Fox" elements to it. After the intro cutscene, every couple levels you'll get a call from Monkey Penny or a cutscene with the villain, but that's it. I wish SPY Fox spoke more during gameplay. This game's writing isn't nearly as witty as the SPY Fox adventure games. It feels very empty at times. 3. The game's story involves a villain trying to destroy Earth's entire supply of a certain type of food so that everyone will switch to the villain's food brand. This is pretty much the same plot as [i]SPY Fox in Dry Cereal[/i], but with ketchup and mustard instead of cow's milk and goat's milk. Could they not have come up with something a little more unique? I know this game is 26 years old, and I'm not expecting it to be updated. I just wanted to be honest about my criticisms. Aside from these three things, it is a fun game.

Hold the Mustard is unlike most Junior Arcade games. This time, there's a full story! Here, Spy Fox is on a mission to stop the dastardly King Konglomerate from stealing all of the world's tomatoes to eliminate all of the world's ketchup and force everyone to use mustard instead! You must destroy all of King's tomato-stealing robots as you travel around the world and even out of this world! Too bad there aren't any extra modes like a level creator. The game does get a bit repetitive after a while. But overall, it's an OK game.

If you told me that this game was a promotional item at Burger King in 2001 that my parents could get in alongside the kid's meal toy for an additional $5, and was just a disk inside of a thin cardboard sleeve sealed in plastic wrap that I would shove into my Acer tower and play religiously for the next 8 months, I would believe you.

This is by far the worst HE game I've ever played, possibly one of the worst games I've ever played. They took what could have been an interesting gameplay loop and ruined it by making every single level the exact same thing. Nothing ever changes except the background sometimes. Even the music hardly ever changes, and what little plot there is is abandoned by the end of the game. Unless you're a morbidly curious HE nut or someone with some serious nostalgia, do yourself a favor and skip this one.