I actually forgot that the game was called franken until the end so that was a very effective reveal
I think there should be more gag encounters in the late game. Every enemy before the tower has some kind of joke associated with them but the later encounters don't have that for some reason. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
Good, funny, short game. If you have an hour to spare and own a computer, you should give it a go.
I think there should be more gag encounters in the late game. Every enemy before the tower has some kind of joke associated with them but the later encounters don't have that for some reason. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
Good, funny, short game. If you have an hour to spare and own a computer, you should give it a go.
Franken is pretty amateurish and very stupid but... I dunno man, this one really got me. Initial impressions were that it was just going to be a series of 'lol so random!!!'-style jokes one after another, but... well, Franken isn't not that, but there is the bare minimum framework of a more sensible JRPG hiding in the back here, and it's just enough for the jokes to somehow constantly catch me off guard.
As funny as it is though (and I genuinely did find this one very funny, is my brain broken?), Franken really isn't much more than the sum of its humour. There's no real gameplay here per se. the aesthetics are pretty crude, etc etc...; but I think all that's fine? After all, Franken quite openly sets out to be a short shitpost of a game, and it achieves that goal marvellously. This is easily the best shitpost game that I've played, and I promise that's a compliment.
As funny as it is though (and I genuinely did find this one very funny, is my brain broken?), Franken really isn't much more than the sum of its humour. There's no real gameplay here per se. the aesthetics are pretty crude, etc etc...; but I think all that's fine? After all, Franken quite openly sets out to be a short shitpost of a game, and it achieves that goal marvellously. This is easily the best shitpost game that I've played, and I promise that's a compliment.
Parodia pequeñita pero muy bien conseguida y muy divertida. No es que sea muy complicada, pero sabe muy bien dónde golpear al respecto de los tropos típicos de los JRPGs desde un punto claramente de amor.
Hay que hacer una mención particularmente especial al trabajo que se ha hecho en la sección final del juego, que me parece increíble para ser una parodia.
En fin, dura una horita como mucho y me parece de los mejores juegos parodia que hay actualmente. Vale la pena echarle un vistazo.
Hay que hacer una mención particularmente especial al trabajo que se ha hecho en la sección final del juego, que me parece increíble para ser una parodia.
En fin, dura una horita como mucho y me parece de los mejores juegos parodia que hay actualmente. Vale la pena echarle un vistazo.
Very silly in an endearing rather than irritating way, a lot of the little jokes hit for me. It's incredibly quirky and most interested in making you laugh over the short runtime, while making fun of classic RPG conventions in a loving way. I enjoyed how all of the characters make an impression despite how breezy it all was, and pay off in a really fun way. It's also free, so I'd recommend.
A very special little silly game. Ones of those games you play one time and smile the whole way though. Definitely a one and done type of game though.
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I'd rate it higher but this is more of a short story than a game, you can get like 30 minutes out of this at most, probably less. You also get no real control in battle or anywhere else for that matter. While the game uses that to great comedic effect the lack of any choice anywhere makes it the least replayable game ever, also meaning that if you've watched someone play it there's no reason to ever try it yourself.
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I'd rate it higher but this is more of a short story than a game, you can get like 30 minutes out of this at most, probably less. You also get no real control in battle or anywhere else for that matter. While the game uses that to great comedic effect the lack of any choice anywhere makes it the least replayable game ever, also meaning that if you've watched someone play it there's no reason to ever try it yourself.
Really good sprite work/design and in-battle effects. Otherwise the jokes made at RPG-mechanics and stories have been made before in games like Undertale, Moon or Space Funeral and there wasn't anything new besides the extreme linearity of combat and progression that cuts any RNG, random encounters, money, (healing) items and level grinding. I'd recommend it though, since it's so short as well as free.