Man Enough (1994) PC Playthrough - NintendoComplete
220A beginning to end playthrough of Tsunami's 1994 FMV dating simulation game, Man Enough.
Man Enough, brought to you by the same company that produced Blue Force, Silent Steel, and Flash Traffic: City of Angels, is as hilarious as it is utterly wretched. Misogyny oozes from every possible crack in this insipid game... and probably not much else, since there's very little that's actually hot here. The fun part is watching it unwittingly mock itself with its cardboard cutout personalities that are flattered by disturbingly gross come on lines, rendering your prospects as little more than laughably bad caricatures of women desperately trying to salvage any shred of dignity by insulting you at any given chance.
Despite what it would like you to think, it's no raunchier than a PG13 teen movie. Much more embarrassing to watch though.
You play as some lame guy approached by an equally lame ("babe" magnet) 30-something in a coffee shop. Aforementioned magnetic counterpart gives the player the Man Enough dating' agency's business card. After spewing word vomit on the owner, you take a ride over to the gym where all of the girls work out. From here, it's up to you to wine, dine, and trade cringe-worthy one-liners with Blair, Erin, Fawn, Kellie, and Quinn. These lines try to be sexy and smooth, but they're all insultingly gross (the not funny kind, usually) or blunt nonsequiturs that would earn most real men restraining orders and black eyes. To avoid playing each scenario OVER and OVER again, check out the game's included "Dating Profiles," which provides a list of each woman's likes and dislikes to gauge possible responses by.
My favorite response option you are provided while eating dinner with psycologist Kellie:
"If you need to go now and change you're underwear, I understand." Classy. There are also lots of references to jackhammers, headlights, and other things that were amusing to you when you were 12.
After "conquering" (meaning almost hitting a homerun, and then being shot down.... except for Blair: she goes down on you for about 2 seconds in an airplane) all of the women, you get to take on CD2 - the ultimate date with the Man Enough agency owner, Jeri.
Hrmm. Well, the voice acting is amazing for how hammy, entertaining, and anti-erotic it is. Most of the women aren't hideous, but they certainly aren't mega starlets the game desperately wants you to believe they are. One of them actually mocks you as you plunge to your death if you screw up the skydiving scene near the end. Thanks babe.
The funniest bit of all though HAS to be Jeri at the start of the game. She's trying so hard to be "hot" that it's absurd. She speaks so low and with such odd inflections that she sounds like she's a deaf man currently in the middle of gender reassignment hormonal therapy. She also seems to believe that "sexy lips" means "make huge O's with your mouth sticking your lips out as far as possible." Is she trying to call you "Beercan"? No... the game isn't that clever.
Dear god, why did I bother to play this? Anyways, hope you get a laugh out of it.
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