12/21/2023 0 Comments I hate to rain on your parade![]() I welcome more video game comedies like Rain on Your Parade. Sure, not every joke lands, and sometimes the goals are underexplained, but that also just sounds like how I could describe every comedy I’ve ever experienced. This is a profoundly silly game that operates in that often untouched comedic space in video games. I enjoyed Rain on Your Parade, largely due to its consistent creativity and invention. Also thanks to the power of the Switch touch screen, you can doodle a new face on your protagonist. ![]() You can give your cumulus hero a new hat or facial accouterment. Completing all the objectives in the level unlocks new customizable parts for your cloud. Every level has a few mandatory objectives and some bonus ones. Boss battles even crop up as, especially after the cloud does so much damage, some people out there really hate precipitation. It remarkably just goes for gusto whenever given the chance. I wish all of the ambitious levels were as good as that Metal Gear Solid-inspired one.Įven still, Rain On Your Parade is a humorous ride worth toying around with. It’s hilarious in its parodic execution and also features crystal clear objectives. You reach the end, trigger something, and then make your way back to the start while drenching the guards in water. The cloud dons a headband a la Solid Snake and you have to navigate a snowy military base while avoiding the vision cones of different guards. One of my favorite levels is an early one modeled after Metal Gear Solid. The kinetic spirit of the game lends itself well to happenstance nonsense, but everything is at its best when the objectives are clear and you can just ride out the wave. I also had a lot of times where I triggered an objective and I didn’t really know how or why. Puzzling these out can be rewarding, but it’s also hard to discern the exact character or area of the map needed because the camera is just a little far back. ![]() Some of the later levels are hilarious and incredible, but others present you with unclear objectives that need to be completed in specific ways to be cleared. Linger too long on a specific level or objective and it stops being as funny. The gag at the heart of Rain On Your Parade soars when you can just experience it like the joke it is. Some of that complexity is where some of the shortcomings crop up. The song was written by Bob Merrill and composed by Jule Styne. ORIGIN: The expression is believed to have originated from a popular 1960’s song titled Don’t Rain On My Parade from the musical Funny Girl. From there, your destructive cloud regularly accrues other abilities, such as lightning, snow, and tornadoes, that add to the repertoire of powers and the complexity of the levels. This expression often appears as I hate to rain on your parade, but and I’m sorry to rain on your parade, but. Initially, your cloud can only rainwater to soak humans and flood areas, but before long, the cloud can fill up with other liquids to wreak havoc. Levels often fly by, but the plus side to that is you rarely labor on a specific idea for too long. These brief story segments usually introduce new mechanics or twists. Commuting: stupidity and malice are universal.The whole game, from start to finish, is told from the perspective of a dad telling his kid a story about a cloud, which explains some of the inane chicanery. ![]() Fuck you Canada! Fuck you Toronto! Fuck you Onta.Off to the city that fun forgot (Toronto).Neither will camping on the summits be the solution, as I have done, since you'll still wake me up at four-thirty. So do you know what you can do about the rule to camp in designated areas? Fuck it, since I won't get a night's sleep there. That's why he's my friend, and you are dickheads. I am supposed to be open minded and even handed, but you wouldn't give a seat to my pregnant wife, step into the path of my baby carriage exiting the train, and this: fuck you, Japan! Of course, not all Japanese are this stupid: the friend I was hiking with was as pissed as me. We also do not wake up everyone in the camp, or mountain hut, both because we are not fucking assholes, and because we do not want to be beaten the shit out of. Glaciers are safer to cross using crampons on a frozen surface. It's called an 'alpine start', except the difference is that in mountaineering it is not done on the minuscule chance that it won't be so humid that the haze will block the sunrise, but so we don't die. I have got up at three-thirty to climb a mountain. Just how many times do you need to be disappointed in your goal of climbing to a summit for a beautiful sunrise to learn that you are an asshat? So why the fuck did you need to wake me up, again, at three in the morning at the top of your lungs laughing and carrying on in your preparations to get to the summit for sunrise? And you know what? I'm glad it was cloudy all day, dimwits.
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