GINORMO SWORD

By: Derek Yu

On: May 27th, 2008

Or: “A man and his phallic symbol embark on a fantasy adventure.”

GINORMO SWORD (full title: “Long and Thick My Ginormo”) is a new Flash game from Barbarageo, creators of the fairly mediocre but similarly awesome-sounding UCHUFORCE 2 (Gesundheit!). It’s a simple hack n’ slash fantasy game – your character follows the mouse cursor and you can attack by clicking the left mouse button. The aim of each area is to uncover the various hidden battle zones, defeat the monsters within, and eventually defeat the boss of the area, allowing you to move on.

Along the way you’ll encounter helpful townspeople and mages who will let you upgrade your sword and learn magicks. One such character is the blacksmith, who, along with leveling your weapon, will let you increase the “length” and “thickness” of your sword. As far as I can tell, these size increases are mostly cosmetic, but then again, isn’t just having a longer and thicker “sword” enough?

It’s actually a pretty entertaining game, though. Fun graphics, too. Just be prepared to slam your left-mouse button a few thousand times to get through.

(Source: Jean Snow, via Game|Life)

Uchuforce 2

By: Derek Yu

On: July 25th, 2007

Uchuforce 2 is an easy, rather repetitive shooter that you collecting letters to spell out “UCHUFORCE” to upgrade your ship (and gain extra lives). You will collect “UCHUFORCE” so much that eventually you will just start peppering everything you say with the word “UCHUFORCE.”

Control with the mouse. Left-click to fire a powerful laser. UCHUFORCE.

Great Kung Fu

By: Tim

On: June 13th, 2006

As a kid, I used to spend plenty of quarters on an old arcade machine called Kung Fu Master. The game was about fighting your way to the top of a pagoda, much like Bruce Lee’s Game of Death but with a damsel in distress.

Babarageo’s remake does a great job of updating the classic, featuring a female lead with deadly moves to take out opponents of any size. Land a number of attacks in succession and you will execute some devastating attacks. Fireballs and dragon punches can be done without the need to wrestle a joystick.

Not too sure if the yellow tracksuit makes an appearance here. Stephen Chow and Quentin Tarantino couldn’t resist, wouldn’t be too surprised if Great Kung Fu includes it as well.