Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden

I have gotten lethargic in my posts and for that, I am sorry. I am gravely sorry to all two of you waiting for my every word on what video games to like, what movies or TV shows to watch and when to eat food.
For the record, you should be playing Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden, watching Heroes and eating now.

Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden is a post-apocalyptic basketball RPG made by indie developer, Tales of Game's Studios. It stars a seemingly ageless Charles Barkley, his son Hoopz, a genetically engineered Cyberdwarf and Lebron James' octoroon great-grandson, Balthios, on a quest to stop the evil B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S. terrorist group from using the basketball that Barkley and co. were trapped in during Space Jam to destroy the world with a Chaos Dunk. Barkley and the gang also need to stop Michael Jordan who is a traitor to the underground basketball cause. Seriously.
Some early bosses include a zombie Kobe Bryant, a Vince Carter cyborg, evil referees and a Bill Cosby ghost. You use neo-shekels to buy items such as tobacco, chup, insulin and alcohol to cure such things as Asperger's, Glaucoma, Diabetes and Parkinson's. If a character dies, you can revive them by using steroids. Once again, I am being serious. This is a real game.
I am currently in the Spalding building in Proto New York looking for answers to why Charles Barkley was framed for using a Chaos Dunk to destroy most of Manhattan.
This is probably one of the funniest games I have ever played and the funniest part is the fact that this is actually is a good game. You would think that a game seeping with all of these ridiculous ideas would be terrible and only playable because of the urge to see what happens to other random basketball stars (yes, Larry Bird is a priest) or see when Barkley next uses the f-bomb.
The game is very reminiscent of the 2D RPGs of the Super Nintendo era and include many gameplay mechanics that have reminded me of Final Fantasy VI, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario and Chrono Trigger.

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