Anyone reading this watch the YouTuber TomSka? He's the creator of the ASDFMovie series as well as funny shorts like Baby With a Gun and Meanwhile. Definitely check his stuff out.
When I was thinking of writing about this game, one of his animated shorts came to mind. It had him and JackSepticEye going against each other in an increasingly ridiculous game of Russian Roulette.
Imagine that short as a video game, but with both idiots on the table shooting each other/themselves and surviving...and with a shotgun.
What you have is Buckshot Roulette- set up in a secret room above a nightclub somewhere in the world, you pit yourself against...
...whatever the hell that low-res abomination is... in a 1v1 duel of blanks and buckshot. However, death doesn't come easy. Both you and the abomination are strapped to defibs that will (somehow) bring you back to life after getting shot. Take too many fatal hits and the game is over. If you beat the abomination, you walk away with a score based on how you did and a suitcase full of money, probably heading to Disney World.
You have to beat him in three rounds. The first plays it straight (as straight as blasting chunks of brain matter and still surviving can be), then round two makes everything spicier when items start to come into play. Things like handcuffs, beer, cigarettes and knives can be used by either player to their advantage to preserve their lives or royally screw each other over. And you can use more than one per turn too. I'll let you folks figure the math out on that.
Though any thrill seekers like me playing this for the first time may find the intensity getting taken out after dying in round two. I'd imagined having to start all over from the beginning after I died, only to find out after blasting through those doors again and starting back on round two like nothing ever happened. There isn't any serious punishment for dying until the final round, where both players' defibrillators are cut off. If killed off at that point, THEN you have to start all over again at round one.
But that's nothing but a tutorial. That stuff's easy mode for what I consider the REAL game.
In the bathroom where you start, there is a pill bottle that you can interact with on the sink. Taking the bottle starts the game's survival mode- where the REAL ACTION is at. Items are available at the start of the game and after three rounds, the game will invite you to go "Double or nothing?" It turns into an arcade game going for a higher score and going as far as possible before dying or calling it quits. Unfortunately, there are no online leaderboards, so the bragging rights are limited down to old fashioned screencaps and anyone interested in the game.
I'd recommend giving this game a shot- it's cheap as dirt for only a buck twenty on Mike Klubnika's Itch.io page:
Check it out and look at his other works!
Also, special thanks to my brother for sharing this game with me!
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