I was gonna put these as different entries, but I feel like there's not a whole lot of difference between the two. The games aren't super deep so it's gonna be hard to go into detail as I had before with other games.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 1 Deluxe
I had just sat and watched like more than half of the AVGN Seasons a week prior to playing this game and I'm really glad I did. I had seen the whole series for years, but now that I refreshed my view on it, it kinda made the game really fun as a huge callback to all the episodes, each episode having representation somewhere and just felt like a novel comeback to something long forgotten.
The platforming is pretty tight as well as the shooting is pretty good, it's no Contra yet closer to Mega Man, but it feels great. The difficulty REALLY ramps up if you play the stages in orders from left to right, kinda goes from a fun romp to my god why is this so precise? since this is a remaster, some things were adjusted such as bosses and collectables just to name a few, but mostly for the better.
The music is actually extremely good for most of the stages, it really reminded me of old NES jams but slightly modernized.
Something I may find myself repeating in the second game review, but the best part about the game is The Nerd's dialogue, it reminds me of how funny he once was without effort and was skirting the line of being over the top, while now he feels like a parody of himself...ironic since this game is a parody of the show, but the dialogue is prefect.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 2: ASSimilation
So if the first game was supposed to be a parody/representation of the show, this this game was the same but for James Rolfe's other shows and personas and I gotta say it was brilliantly done, it still has the level feel of the first game but with a bit of a slight twist, while the first game played VERY close to Mega Man, this game feels much like Metroid to the point it has a VERY slight Metroidvania feel to it. The levels are much shorter but there are more screens and puzzles to go through.
This game is a bit more about going through puzzles and platforming so it doesn't feel AS tight due to how the control for wall jumping isn't quite perfected, but it's nothing game breaking. The game does play well all-in-all, but some of the power-ups you find needed some tweaking here and there, but the attempt was done decently well.
This game has actually better dialogue than the first and I think it just points out even more how the show is a parody of what it once was, I still like the show, but this game kinda confirmed to me that the show is getting that seasonal rot that shows go through if they've existed a while with not enough changes.
To conclude, these two games were much better than I thought, the Deluxe came with a third...not really game, but extra chapter that ends the saga, but not enough to call it a game, more like extra DLC, which was pretty decently challenging as it was using the second game's engine. Great collection, but I think it's only for AVGN fans, I can't see someone who's never heard of him enjoying the game much.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 1 Deluxe
I had just sat and watched like more than half of the AVGN Seasons a week prior to playing this game and I'm really glad I did. I had seen the whole series for years, but now that I refreshed my view on it, it kinda made the game really fun as a huge callback to all the episodes, each episode having representation somewhere and just felt like a novel comeback to something long forgotten.
The platforming is pretty tight as well as the shooting is pretty good, it's no Contra yet closer to Mega Man, but it feels great. The difficulty REALLY ramps up if you play the stages in orders from left to right, kinda goes from a fun romp to my god why is this so precise? since this is a remaster, some things were adjusted such as bosses and collectables just to name a few, but mostly for the better.
The music is actually extremely good for most of the stages, it really reminded me of old NES jams but slightly modernized.
Something I may find myself repeating in the second game review, but the best part about the game is The Nerd's dialogue, it reminds me of how funny he once was without effort and was skirting the line of being over the top, while now he feels like a parody of himself...ironic since this game is a parody of the show, but the dialogue is prefect.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 2: ASSimilation
So if the first game was supposed to be a parody/representation of the show, this this game was the same but for James Rolfe's other shows and personas and I gotta say it was brilliantly done, it still has the level feel of the first game but with a bit of a slight twist, while the first game played VERY close to Mega Man, this game feels much like Metroid to the point it has a VERY slight Metroidvania feel to it. The levels are much shorter but there are more screens and puzzles to go through.
This game is a bit more about going through puzzles and platforming so it doesn't feel AS tight due to how the control for wall jumping isn't quite perfected, but it's nothing game breaking. The game does play well all-in-all, but some of the power-ups you find needed some tweaking here and there, but the attempt was done decently well.
This game has actually better dialogue than the first and I think it just points out even more how the show is a parody of what it once was, I still like the show, but this game kinda confirmed to me that the show is getting that seasonal rot that shows go through if they've existed a while with not enough changes.
To conclude, these two games were much better than I thought, the Deluxe came with a third...not really game, but extra chapter that ends the saga, but not enough to call it a game, more like extra DLC, which was pretty decently challenging as it was using the second game's engine. Great collection, but I think it's only for AVGN fans, I can't see someone who's never heard of him enjoying the game much.