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Under the Skin (2004)

Duration: 10:00

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Under the Skin is an incredibly fun niche title released by Capcom where you play as an alien who is trying to collect coins from humans, and zombies in this level, by playing pranks on them. Normally, you are competing against a computer opponent to take their coins, or be the first to a certain coin amount, but in the Raccoon City level, you are working together to take coins from Nemesis.

It's really hard to describe Under The Skin. It's just one of those totally weird, and totally fun Japanese games that makes no sense. You are an alien who runs around cities disguised at a human, who set traps and do special attacks on unsuspecting humans who then drop coins for you to collect. It sounds weird, because it is weird, but it's still a lot of fun.

The single player game has you competing against other aliens in each map with different objectives depending on the level. For the most part, the objectives are usually collect 500 coins in the allotted time, or collect more coins than your rival in the allotted time. Each level has it's own unique theme (including a level based in Raccoon City where you try to steal coins from Nemesis) with it's own unique dangers. While disguised as a human, if you take two hits, you lose your disguise, and a number of your coins that your opponent can then take. Once you lose your disguise, you have to make your way to moving UFO points that transform you into whatever human form you chose by abducting one of the inhabitants of the map. Depending on who you abduct, depends on what items you receive in you new disguise. You can see what items each character has before you abduct them. When in human form, you can abduct one other person so you have one on deck for when you run out of items for your current disguise.

Like I said, it's a wacky concept, but it works. The only real complaint I have with the game is the really short length of the single player story mode. My first time through on normal took me 63 minutes to beat all the levels. However, beating it unlocks an added trials mode, and the coop mode (there is also a 2 player vs mode which is unlocked from the beginning) so you can play with a friend, or an A.I. bot. If you have another person to play with, this extends the life of the game a lot. If you're a solo gamer, this isn't going to be a game that holds your attention for very long. Overall, I'd say it's a game that may not keep you playing for a long time, but it's still fun enough to pop in and play it for a few rounds here or there on occasion, so it doesn't have a ton of replay value up front, but I can see myself putting a lot of combined hours on it over a long period of time. If you're weary of the length, buy it for cheap, and enjoy.

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