Although of course, overcoming this challenge will cost you blood, sweat and tears.
It's one of those challenges you like to boast about once you've overcome it. I Wanna be the Guy is a platform game both fun and legendary. The slightest touch of any element of the scenario will end his life, making you go back to the last checkpoint where the game was saved. Throughout the many scenarios that you have to overcome you will find traps placed with the objective to kill you over and over again.įor if the design of the levels is not complicated enough, on top of that your main character is quite weak. The reason why 'I Wanna be the Guy' is more well-known, however, is not for its multiple references to other games, but its terrible difficulty. The game borrowed a lot of elements from legendary games of the nineties so that during your many adventures you will encounter references to games like Ghosts and Goblins, Street Fighter II, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania or Metroid. Still, as many modern products do that are canned before final distribution (such as ), "The Guy Game: Game Over!" managed to find its way onto the gray market and the internet.I Wanna be the Guy, whose complete name is 'I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game' is a tremendously complicated two-dimensional platform game where the players will have to control 'The Kid' throughout his epic journey to become 'The Guy'. For reasons that were never disclosed, the repackaged DVD was never printed for distribution despite being completed. The Guy Game: Game Over! DVD was hosted solely by Dick Conrad (Although Steve Graves is heard in recycled material), and had a running time of 56 minutes, ending on a hopeful note of turning the transformed project into a series. The DVD format allowed them to sidestep having to "deal with" ratings boards, angry parents, and "gaming geeks." Basketball Stars is a simulation-sports game developed by. This DVD had no gameplay elements and stripped out a majority of even the trivia, but instead was cut and presented in a style similar to "Girls Gone Wild." It also spun the scandal of the recall as being due to the "infamous" game showing "too much" nudity for retail locations.
The Guy Game: Game Over! Box Art for unreleased DVDĪfter the console and PC versions of the title was pulled off of store shelves, developer Topheavy Studios tried to make the best of a bad situation by repackaging the portions of the game that didn't contain an underage contestant into a standalone DVD with additional content that didn't make it into the console releases.