Ugly, bland environments; sloppy platforming (featuring tightropes of death!); sub-par “parody” plot (Im off the case? I have to turn in my badge and all six of my guns!?); almost impossible to play on original DS; lots of really bad puns.
Insecticide melds sloppy platforming/shooter action with lightweight adventure puzzling, cemented together by a derivative pseudo-film-noir plot chock-full of atrocious puns. Swat this one away.
Abstract: del.icio.us | Digg This | Glink It Chrys Liszt is one tough detective. She ain’t a tough cookie – she’s a tough cockroach. The kind that get stuck to your shoe? No. These are the kind whose shoe you’d get stuck to – if you, a part of the human race,...
Abstract: Name – InsecticideGenre – Action/AdventurePlatform – DSLast year’s sleeper DS hit, Dementium The Ward was a first –person adventure game by renegade publisher, Gamecock. The game featured a combination of puzzle-solving and action elements that were b...
Abstract: A noir detective story featuring a cast of cockroaches, surprisingly good writing, and an interesting mix of platforming and adventure should be reason enough to get excited about Insecticide, but poor execution mars an otherwise ambitious concept.
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