The Rocky Horror Show Video Game

Pretty great game with some seriously missed opportunities. I'd love to see each of the playable characters with a different ability, Super Mario Bros 2 style, eg. Janet moves quicker or can jump higher, Dr. Scott can land on spikes etc. Soundtrack is great, featuring very nice 8bit renditions of the original soundtrack (small negative point for now covering "I'm going home" which is my favorite). I also like the easthetic, I could see a game of this ilk coming out in 80s-90s to promote the movie for whichever anniversary. Overall, if you are a fan of the movie and like some hard 2D platformers, I recommend you pick up this game

The perfect translation of Richard O'Brien's show into an 8-bit-chic, chiptune-laden platformer extravaganza. The love, the *passion* that has been poured into this adaptation is palpable (oh, my), the immediate and pressing urge to see the next cutscene, listen to the next song has you shivering in atici pation. Admittedly, the gameplay is that of a rather basic Castlevania-like platformer - a fact the game is well aware of - but it's fun enough (and, thankfully easy enough) to spend some time with. But the gameplay is not what you're here for, and you know it. What you're here for you will get in no small measures. Don't dream it. Play it.

If you love platformers and Rocky Horror Show, then there's no reason not to like this game. So much fun to play and such a great adaptation of the cult masterpiece. Don't wishlist it, play it.

If you love the Rocky Horror Show and Retro games, this game is absolutely for you. It's a simplistic action platformer that offers enough challenge, but doesn't make you want to pull your hair out. The sprites and areas are colorful and well designed. The real beauty of this game is the audio. 8-bit versions of all the songs from Rocky Horror so well done. I especially love the opening song which is kind of crossed with Science Fiction, Double Feature, and the opening to the Legend of Zelda theme. The big con for me on the game was that there is really no replayability. Pretty much once you beat the game once, you never really need to again. To my knowledge and understanding, there are no hidden areas, pathways, endings, etc. It's really kind of a one and done. That being said, I had a great time and absolutely think it's worth the money. Official Legiondary Rating Scale Rating: 74/100 (See breakdown and explanations below) Visuals: 15/20 Atmosphere: 15/20 Audio: 19/20 Gameplay: 15/20 Fun: 10/20 I rate all my games on a scale from 1-100, broken down into 5 categories, each category worth 20 points: Visuals - What's the game look like? I take out system limitations as I play alot of retro games normally. I just appreciate (or not) the visuals for what they were for the time period they came out, or for what they were trying to accomplish. Atmosphere - Story, World, etc. How well does the game keep me tuned into it. I stream most games so how easily am I distracted from it has alot of effect as well. Audio - Music and Sound Effects. I feel like this is an easy one. Like visuals, I try to appreciate them for the time period. Gameplay - How does it control? Are there too many buttons? Too few? Also, how difficult is the game? Does it ramp up too hard? Fun - FUN FACTOR! How much fun did I have with the game and would I play through it again? Is there reasons to play through it again?

If you are a fan of the Movie/Play and a fan of old school video games this game is pretty fun. Its short and not too difficult. I wish there was an option to skip the cut scenes and a few of the rooms were a little frustrating, but over all a decent game.

I decided to get all the achievements in this game, which involves picking up 6 collectibles, doing an easy challenge and playing the game twice. All told this took me 3.6 hours, which for the price I bought it at ($4) is fine. Unfortunately though, this game is shallow. The gameplay is pretty unrelated to Rocky Horror. The levels' enemies (excluding bossfights) consist of flying brains, skeletons in drag, and flying skeleton heads. The primary way you fight these enemies is by throwing boxes. You play as three different characters: Brad, Janet, and Dr. Scott. The differences between them are minimal. Brad has extra health than the others, Janet is slower (?), and Dr. Scott is faster than Brad. It would've been more interesting for each of them to have their own special moves or something rather than these minimal differences. The fighting is not the major gameplay challenge though, that falls to the platforming. It's passable, it leaves a lot to be desired in specific areas. This game is not necessarily easy, but where it's challenging it only ever became frustrating to me. The checkpoints are sometimes very badly placed. This is most egregious with Eddie's bossfight, where it seems the intended way to fight him is by using a box to push him back until Frank enters the arena and kills him. The problem is that if you die once, you respawn without a box. This leaves you in a death spiral where you have to avoid being hit by a boss with literally 0 telegraphing on his attacks. Getting back to the platforming though, it definitely has its moments where it feels like a troll level from Mario Maker or something. Fragile blocks that fall when you step on them look exactly the same as their ordinary counterparts. The game's main pull is the soundtrack, which is a great 8-bit rendition. No complaints here. The cutscenes vary greatly in effort put into them. Almost none are animated, there's no voice-acting (I don't think this would be a good choice, I just want to emphasize that you're looking at a disembodied head talking in a void) and only a few cutscenes have anything to look at. Another problem is that, until new game plus, there's no fast forward or skip button for dialogue. This isn't so much of a problem, except that the text scroll speed is fairly slow, and there is a lot of text directly borrowed from the script. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this game unless you're a huge Rocky Horror fan and want to see all the media around it.

Ich liebe den Film, und jetzt liebe ich auch das Spiel. Für ein jumpnrun wirklich gut und dazu die Musik aus dem Film, da will man manchmal einfach nur stehen bleiben und und zur Musik Wigglen ;D Achja btw die Checkpoints sind sehr Fair gesetzt.

Great music, but generic platforming. Beat the entire game in only 90 minutes...