PsychoCarbo Atari Mania Review

09/10 A masterpiece! Review at the end! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☐ Byutiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Don't look at it for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Does your PC run Paint? ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boy ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☑ Story? What story? ☐ One word. Pewpewpew! Three words. Pew pew! ☐ A bit of a story ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien joined forces to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ "I know kugfu!" ☐ Excellent! ☑ Good ☐ Mehh ☐ Instead, watch the paint dry ☐ Just... no ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer, it's funnier ---{ Grind }--- ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ☐ Grindmaniac ☑ Average grind level ☑ Only if you care about achievements ☐ Not needed ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain use ☐ Hard without a brain ☐ What's your IQ? ☐ Dark Souls ☐ Hawking joined with Neil deGrasse Tyson to create a time machine and thus find Einstein and Tesla to create this game. ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start, your grandchild finishes ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replay } --- ☐ Once is enough ☐ Only if you're aiming for achievements ☐ After a few months... Years... Mods... ☐ Worth it with DLCs ☑ You'd better have time to waste ☐ Well... You didn't need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor errors ☐ Can get annoying ☐ You're gonna swear... ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a great bug terrarium ---{ Multiplayer } --- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ Lan ☐ Says it has it, but it'll blow up your PC if you try ☐ There it is... A lonely, forgotten desert ☐ Meh, it's kind of fun ☐ Solo mission? What? ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ☑ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ Not available on Steam anymore ☐ It's free! ☑ The price is fair ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If you have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ 09 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Honestly, for the first time, I don't understand so many negative reviews. Maybe, since I didn't have an Atari as a kid, the nostalgia factor is missing, which means I might not get the essence of the thing. But let's get to what's important: this video game jewel! To start, both the pixelated style and the simple, straight-to-the-point story are extremely captivating. In addition, the secondary objectives are addictive and the silly humor is on point. But the strong point here was the idea of mixing the original games, offering many crazy versions to try out. Now, from what I remember of the few times I played Atari, both the controls and the games were often quite difficult, something typical of the retro era. So yes, the difficulty increases as a result, which ended up making me give up. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a tough or patient player, so repeating an episode a thousand times to get through it is not for me! But, even so, I managed to get past the middle of the game. Maybe one day I'll go back. The fact is that this was a beautiful surprise! I don't know what so many people disliked, but for me, if you're nostalgic and want to rediscover classics with a slight touch of magic, go for it, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it!