Bruh

With that out of the way, this game continues the search for >2P multiplayer games Nowhere and I have set out on, and as usual for anything non-Nintendo I find myself mostly disappointed.

Pen Pen Trilcelon (mostly just referred to as Pen Pen) is a Dreamcast exclusive racing game and launch title for the system, it lines up with a lot of other DC games in their oversaturated colorful and Quirky presentation, though the character design of Unga Pogo is bewilderingly racist and had us taken aback for a bit; after we recovered I half-joked "watch his track be randomly lined with stereotypical tribesmen", hoping to be proven wrong but nah the track has half-naked, spear-wielding, wood/skin-mask-wearing tribespeople flailing about the sidelines... Idk I don't find this shit particularly endearing.

The actual gameplay is surprisingly not dogshit tho Unga's level has this awful on-foot section where you have to jump into a cave past a spinning platform, but the collision is trash and missing it is a massive time loss as you wait to pray you slip in. The rest of the tracks were just okay at best.

The breath of this game's content is finished in about 20 minutes or so, of which 4-5 of those is unfortunately spent on Unga's course.

I'm just tired of being recommended games that are filler for a woozy night of drinking at best, or as research pieces for a console's library. I don't drink, I just want a good 4P multiplayer game that has a little more going on than hold one or two buttons and doesn't spike the ball into the ground in the process of adding a third.

Reviewed on Nov 05, 2022


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