The PenguinGame 2 -The Lies of Penguin- Cinematic Playthrough
0The four penguin sages boast a rigorous set of trials for the chosen one, but against all odds you must seize power and usurp the humans!
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00:00 - The Savior of the Antarctic
04:05 - A Lesson In Combat
07:29 - Ocean Guard
11:30 - Ninja Master
18:49 - CyberWarrior Mk.2
28:42 - Pengi: The Blue Flame
32:44 - Pengvengers Assemble
41:05 - Castle Golem
43:26 - Epilogue
REVIEW: 2/5
This game is ridiculous. It strikes me as the culmination of all those times you and your buddies get together, start to get a little crazy, and say dumb stuff like, "What if we made a game, but it was like Dark Souls? And like, you just play as a penguin the whole time!", but they actually followed up on it and made the damn game.
Lies of Penguin is just pure, uncut, weird satire. The first time I saw "Bonice Lit" when I sat at a bonfire killed me. Every joke in this game landed with me, and I spent a majority of the game laughing. I paid for it too, because some of those moments were during boss fights, like when the cyborg decides to grab himself and moonwalk away. I wasn't prepared as a gamer to counter this.
I think the devs figured out the bare minimum in terms of game development, and just threw every idea into the pot and turned nothing away. The game controls very rough, and has no controller support. The aiming is choppy, the hits wouldn't connect half the time, and a lot of the non-boss enemies had broken pathing and would run in place, swinging at nothing. There was no background track for the majority of the game; it seemed to be specially reserved for boss fights only, (though to be fair, every boss track slaps so hard). The sound effects were very generic and somewhat weirdly placed, i.e. the sound for fully charging your bat was the sound of a basketball shoe squeaking on the court. Grammatically, the English was pretty messy and there was no voice acting.
After harping on all of its flaws, I do still need to acknowledge the fact that this was actually made with care and love; obviously it lacks the polish and presentability that you'd expect in a fully-released game, however it does have a ton of weird and fun ideas. It was over the top, nonsensical in every meaning of the word, but you can tell it doesn't lack soul. For whatever else you can say about it, you can't say that it's a mindless cash grab. This game was made for fun.