Executioners playthrough
104A playthrough I should have made 6 years ago.
I am playing one of the ugliest, the most controversial and just the edgiest beat'em up games, that has ever been made in the history of mankind. This time I am playing Executioners, which was made by Bloodlust Software in 1992. Yes. The same people, who made Time Slaughter.
It's about two brutes, who fight the demons, mutants and... midgets, who serve the psychotic chef named Cannibal Ed. He is responsible for poisoning the population with his Atomic Food Products.
The heroes... or should I say... the anti-heroes are Guillotine and Reaper. Guilotine is slower, but stronger. Reaper is weaker, but faster. That's kinda obvious.
Besides the simple moves they have mainly the special grabbing moves such as lifting, uppercuts, slams and throws. Unfortunately they don't have any defensive specials, which is one of the things, which makes this beat'em up game more difficult.
This game really is very difficult. I am not kidding.
You have to punch the enemies from the certain distance or else they will punch you and a worse fact about it is, that you have to be lucky to punch them back. You need to find a certain strategy to fight them. If the enemies are pushed out of the screen, they even get up faster.
An another thing, that makes this beat'em up game difficult is, that the bosses keep cheating you.
The bullets from the machine guns do not affect them,. They can break your simple punch combo. Some of the bosses have the moves, that makes them invincible and some of them including the final boss keep grabbing you even, if you are half-screen away from them. Yeah. A third boss is actually a vore character.
No wonder why nobody made a full playthrough in this MS-DOS game, if the AI of the enemies keeps cheating. This game was so frustrating, that I had to use a stage warping cheat in purpose a last credit wears off in a certain stage. Actually one person made a full playthrough, but he was keeping using the cheats all time and later he closed a channel on YouTube.
Let's talk about the visual and sound details there.
The graphics are really ugly. I understand, if it's the very first game they have ever made and tried their best, but it may be just painful for the eyes. Time Slaughter was ugly as well, but at least there was some slight improvement.
The soundtrack is not astonishing, but at least the certain songs are catchy. For exaple the first stage's one.
Summing up, this is one of the most frustrating beat'em up games I have ever played. Playing it requires a lot of patience and stealth nerves. Maybe you will find a better strategy to complete a playthrough without having all credits worn off.
You can find it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051122171557/http://www.bloodlustsoftware.com/executioners.html
https://dosgames.com/game/executioners/
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