MOWY ADVENTURES BEER QUEST
Author:
Alberto Caamaño Souto
Publisher:
Mowy Entertainment
Memory: 128K
Released: July 2021
Price: Free
The party to end all parties is about to begin, and poor Mowy is the mug that has to go and fetch the beer. Stupidly, and in his rush, he didn’t check his fuel gauge, and he’s all out of petrol. The celebrations are off to a good start.
So begins our quest in this standard, flip-screen platform game, where
Mowy must leap about the environment, collecting fuel canisters and beer (so there was no need to go to the off licence after all?). Hindering Mowy’s progress, there are demonic teddy bears, bats and saluting Nazis trying to thwart his alcohol penchant. The Nazi’s can be destroyed by leaping on their heads — the other baddies simply require timing and patience to avoid. Once enough fuel is collected, the van can be moved, allowing access down to a new location (that has even more beer). The hangover will be insufferable.
CRITICISM
• There is very little variety in this extremely basic platform game. It offers nothing you haven’t seen a thousand times before. Each screen only has one object to collect, and figuring out how to reach it without dying, is simply yawn-inspiring. Unfortunately, this isn’t the game’s biggest issue — it’s the floaty controls. These make moving and jumping far too exerting, and you end up fighting with the controls more than you do the Nazi henchmen.
The instructions are laden with Portuguese colloquial humour, so I’ll end this review in that context — the game is a bit ‘churros’.
Gordon King
CRITICISM
• Wow, Mowy can sure leap. Maybe his skills could be used in the next ZX Spectreum sporting compilation title — I think the Long Jump would be apt!.
This is not a bad game by any means, just a tad fustrating to play, with little reward. There is not much to do on each screen with the collection of one item and the music on both the title screen and in-game is a little jarring on myears. So not much going for this game sadly past the first play.
Chris Wilkins