Review
Full of meaty (not so) goodness
by Craig Grannell (December 22nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm)
Game: Super Reindeer Hunt. Developer: nailbones. Price: Free. Download the game.
Sometimes a game’s own intro explains what it’s about far better than any reviewer ever could, so:
Mince pies? Pah! Santa wants raw reindeer!
The game itself is somewhat simple:
Sadly missing: 4. Scare children witless, forever.
The game looks simple, with, presumably, OT Santa attempting to grab and eat reindeer or scare them away. The controls are responsive, because Santa wants those reindeer. The reindeer are alert and run when you get near them, because they don’t want Santa to eat them.
OT SANTA WANTS REINDEER FLESH!
And when the time runs out, the hero does indeed burst into the skulls of the forgotten damned.
Dead OT Santa skull spatter mayhem.
Um. So. If you like tap-based games where you have a tiny, pixelated, crazed Santa chase after reindeer in order to gorge on their flesh, you should download this game right now.
You seriously recommended this? It’s not even a “tilt-based game”, unless there is some hidden way to make it a tilt-based game. You “touch and hold to move”… slowly, too slowly to catch reindeer if they are more than 10 pixels away from you. And having my finger on the screen over the place I want to move to makes it hard to see the reindeer I’m trying to catch. I wish it was a tilt-based game. It would make sense as a tilt-based game.
“You seriously recommended this?”
Er, no. There’s no ‘recommended’ badge nor an ‘essential’ one and the summing up was pretty sarcastic. It’s just a review. And, yeah, my bad on the tilt thing, which was written while having too many mince pies. It’s now been corrected.
Played it like 3 times. Kept wondering how it seemed so fun in screenshots and so lame in-game. And yes, besides the silly humor, it’s as fun as having a prostate exam done by a deer. Ouch.