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La Pugly Ugly - The Long Journey
Author	Bonny Bonnet Hood Softwarts
Filename	pugly.zip
Year	2008
Position	97
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K
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Description	Well, what can I say - clearly a lot of hard graft has gone into making this game. The intro screen is beautifully done with bright and detailed graphics yet the protagonist is pug ugly. Let's put it this way - you would not want to meet one of his species down a dark alley. Our unsightly hero does bounce along in the most vibrant manor as you control him, exploring the flip-screen game world. Some psychological pressure is applied to the player in the form of a continuous pulsing two-tone soundtrack. Yet a generous quota of lives is provided. The second screen fortells disaster - so caution is advisable. Always nice to see another platformer in the CGC (It's been a while.). Be sure to check out the full instructions file, provided in the download.
Comments	Too damn good for the compo. Tries to be crap and in some ways is, but there's no way you can get away with drawing such a good intro screen, and make a clearly attemptable platformer without someone noticing that a fair bit of time and effort went into this. This one spawned a thread in the Spanish spec-chum community, with the announcer later mentioning something like "I'm sorry I just realised it is actually a CGC game", followed by others:- "It's OK, we are playing it anyway". I'm led to believe that certain well known members of the speccy community (experienced coders and designers) were involved in the development of this title. That's presumably why it is good. On the crap side, the movement of the player charachter may be vibrant and animated, but it is bleedin' awful to control and insane how it can just stay hanging in mid-air. So some crap cred is due for that at least. For me, the nightmares of the SCR image of the "La Pugly Ugly" character have somwewhat faded in recent weeks, but haven't totally gone just yet! In game "music" consists of a tortuous repetitive pulse which did go off when I pressed a key. If you want a laugh, then read the supplied instructions!