Hello, and welcome to another installment of Hidden Gems, and today, we’ll be taking a look at the third party game from the Wii. Now, I know that third party games for the Wii were… Not the best. Usually, you’d find a bunch of awful party and fitness games. Sure, 당신 get a few good third party games, but they're all kind of… E rated games. They never went to the extreme… But then one game did just that. There was a game on the Wii that decided to push it to the and create something rather gruesome and violent for a console as family friendly as the 닌텐도 Wii… And no, we will not be talking about No 더 많이 히어로즈 1 and 2. I 사랑 No 더 많이 Heroes, and it was indeed a very violent game, but I feel that many people know about it now. Maybe back when the Wii was new, I would have talked about it, but I feel that it has managed to gain 더 많이 popularity over the years, since it got two games, and a rumored third one for the Switch. No, today, we’re talking about something 더 많이 obscure and debatably 더 많이 insane, and that is the beautifully gory Madworld.



~Story~

Madworld is a hack and 슬래쉬 game created 의해 Platinum Games, who 당신 may know for making amazing games like Wonderful 101, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and the Bayonetta franchise, so they’re pretty good there. Madworld takes place in the fictional city of Varrigan City, which was under attack 의해 a terrorist group called The Organizers. The Organizers caused the city to lose all contact with the outside world and released a virus that was said to kill anyone within 24 hours, and the only way to prevent it was to kill someone, and soon, the town erupted into violent crime. This was the set-up for the game show Death Watch, where city residents, as well as new arrivals, would fight to the death in order to win both a massive cash prize and their freedom. So it’s like Smash TV. Yeah, remember that arcade game? In this game, 당신 play as Jack Cayman, an ex-marine clad in biker gear with a robotic arm that turns into a chainsaw, who arrives to compete in Death Watch, but is actually there on a mission, and so the runner of the game show, Noa, plans to kill him in the game show instead of in secrecy, as Jack quickly becomes a 팬 favorite. From this point, your goal is to fight your way through enemies, rack up points in violent combos, defeat the boss of the level, and 옮기기 on from there. It’s as basic as it gets… And I 사랑 it.



~Gameplay~

Madworld does exactly what you’d expect with it’s gory violence. It doesn’t hold back on anything. If 당신 want to impale an enemy through the face with a 거리 sign, do it. If 당신 want to beat them in the face with a baseball bat, go right ahead. If 당신 want to toss them into moving trains, a piranha tank, a crushing thingy, go crazy. Madworld is a game that does not care how 당신 kill people, as long as it’s over the 상단, 맨 위로 and makes no sense, then do it. Your job is to take out enemies and rack up points before time runs out. The 더 많이 combos and 더 많이 creative your kills are, the 더 많이 points 당신 get. Once 당신 have managed to get enough points, the levels boss appears. Kill the boss, and 당신 progress to the 다음 level. The art style of this game really makes it even better. The black and white style mixed with the cel-shading really gives the game a sort of style to it. But it’s not all black and white. As a violent game, it’s red ALL over. Blood is the only thing in this game that has color, and there’s a lot of it. And with all of the fighting you’re gonna do, I assure you, you’re gonna see a lot of it. Yep, lots of fighting… Lots and lots and lots of it.



Okay, so to some people, seeing this much fighting can get a little tiresome. The game doesn’t change much after that, so the fighting may get a little old for some people. Not for me. Other than horror, my 가장 좋아하는 thing in entertainment is stupid, over-the-top action, and Madworld certainly has it. Thankfully, for those who are sick of fighting the same amount of goons every level, the game mixes it up with a few mini bosses, like an overweight man that rolls around in an attempt to run 당신 down, a man dressed as a 황소, 불 with a massive chainsaw, and the grim reaper…… Oh, I’ll get to that bastard later. 당신 are also able to go on the road with your motorcycle and fight enemies with your chainsaw 또는 의해 running them over. But the best part of the game besides the fighting is the mini games, also known as Bloodbath Challenges. These Bloodbath Challenges are hosted 의해 the one and only Black Baron, a pimp who shows 당신 how the challenges work, as he is used as a demonstration 의해 his… “Assistant”, Mathilda, who ends up killing The Black Baron to show 당신 how the challenge works, yet he somehow ends up coming later, perfectly fine, just in time to show 당신 the 다음 Bloodbath Challenge before he’s killed again. These challenges are pretty fun. The goal is to kill a certain number of enemies in a certain way before time runs out. For example, the most well known one, Man Dart, has 당신 헤로인 enemies with a baseball bat and send them flying into a giant dartboard. These mini games are so brutal and I 사랑 them.



However, as much as I 사랑 the over the 상단, 맨 위로 action of the game, it’s not perfect. There isn’t much variety besides that, I’m afraid. It’s fun, but I can definitely see people getting bored within a few hours. And then there’s the infamous Mad 성 level, the level that is glitched to where 당신 cannot dodge the enemies attacks within a quicktime event, and 당신 will either get hurt 또는 even get killed. This is proven when 당신 fight Death Blade, a grim reaper on roller skates, whose scythe kills 당신 in one hit. One goddamn hit. And the boss of the level, the Shamans, cannot be dodged. Trust me, I’ve tried. Just wail on them and pray 당신 kill them before they kill you. It’s easy as long as 당신 had enough lives saved up, but that may not be so thanks to Death Blade. Speaking of the bosses, there are thankfully 더 많이 good ones than bad ones. But the bad ones really show. Little Eddie is a giant monster and does the first boss role well. Not a great boss, but he works. Jude the Dude is a cowboy that skates on rails, and is a pretty fun boss, even if he fights from a distance. Frederick von Twirlenkiller is a German soldier that creates tornados and is truly the first great boss 당신 fight in this game. Rinrin is a much 더 많이 deadly version of Chun-li and manages to be a pretty fun boss to fight. Shogun Kokushimusou is a shogun and, while not a bad fight, I remembered the scenery, a burning dojo, 더 많이 than the boss. Yokozuna is a sumo that survives being impaled several times and takes being shot into a 화산 to kill. It’s insane and I 사랑 it. The Shamans are 늑대인간 and obviously suck. Frank is a Frankenstein monster and sucks even 더 많이 with his healing and bullshit attacks. Elise is a vampire and the best boss in the Mad 성 area. Kojack is an evil version of Jack and is 더 많이 fun because 당신 get to fight him on your motorcycle. The Masters are just two jedis. They have lightsabers, and 옮기기 당신 with the will of their minds. Martin is just boring, and yes, an alien in a giant robot is boring. Not fun and not annoying. Just boring. But the final boss, that is where the game gets really good.



~Ending~

~SPOILERS AHEAD~

So, as it turns out, the man in charge of the event works for a pharmaceutical company known as Springvale that helped the Organizers create Deathwatch, as a way to help sell the vaccine, after they also created the virus. So, in order for Jack to get to the man in charge, he must defeat the final boss and champion of Death Watch. At first, I thought the leader of the Organizers was the final boss and champion, but as it turns out, the final boss was hiding under our noses the whole time… And it was The Black Baron all along… Yeah, the Black Baron was the final boss. And thank god, for once on this series, I get to talk about a game with a good final boss. And The Black Baron isn’t just a good final boss, but the best boss in the entire game. 당신 have no weapons in this fight. Just your fists and your endurance. 당신 have to fight The Black Baron as he throws punches at 당신 and with his “assistant” trying to fight 당신 as well. However, during the fight, the geishas that Jack saved in the Asia Town level come to give him health if he needs it. After 당신 manage to knock The Black Baron’s health down 의해 half, things suddenly change. The Black Baron is 더 많이 pissed and isn’t screwing around anymore, and even the background 음악 changes. This time, The Black Baron has faster and 더 많이 aggressive attacks, and can even create one hit kill vortexes (But their easy to avoid, so it isn’t cheap). After 당신 manage to defeat The Black Baron, Jack pimp slaps him a few times, followed 의해 smashing him into the dart board for the final time. Jack kills the leader of the Organizers and creator of the virus, and then leaves the city as the DeathWatch champion as the credits roll, and 당신 get to hear the announcers, Howard “Buckshot” Holmes and Kreese Kreeley voiced 의해 Greg Proops of Whose Line is it Anyway and John DiMaggio as Bender from 퓨쳐라마 and Jake from Adventure Time. (By the way, these two are hilarious in this game. I recommend buying it just to hear them).



~Legacy~

Madworld is a game that was fondly remembered…. No, that’s a lie. Not many people bought this game, and those who did hear of it hated the game for it’s violent content being on a console like the Wii. The National Institution of Media and Family were disappointed in 닌텐도 for allowing the game to be put onto their console in the first place, while Germany banned the game altogether. However, for some reason, Madworld was able to be successful enough to get released in Australia in a combo pack titled Welcome to Violence, which, along with Madworld, came with House of the Dead: Overkill and The Conduit. Madworld was even able to get a sequel, titled Anarchy Reigns. It too wasn’t that popular, so maybe I’ll review that game too in the upcoming future.

~Verdict~

Madworld was a game that had style, and managed to be entertaining from start to end, despite its limitations. I can understand many people being bored quickly, but I for one, 사랑 this game. It had a unique art style to it, amazing over-the-top gameplay, a rather catchy rap soundtrack (And I don’t even like rap, so let that show how good it is), and some of the best comedy I’ve heard from two faceless characters that aren’t even important to the story. If 당신 want a game for the Wii that doesn’t feel incredibly dull 또는 a cash grab, than I ask 당신 to give Madworld a try. Madworld gets the ranking of Excavation Worthy. Goodbye.