Michal Ždanský Retro graphics are currently booming on mobile devices. Superbrothers, Game Dev Story or Star Command, that's just a fraction of the better-known games on the App Store that invoke eight-bit retro graphics. It is difficult to evaluate such games in terms of graphics processing. Some do reach pixel perfection, and it's probably a kind of digital art with a touch of nostalgia. McPixel also follows this trend, but instead of using every pixel, it tries to do just one thing – entertain.
It's hard to define the genre of this game. It is something on the border of point and click adventure, but it has no story. Each of the levels is a kind of absurd situation where you have to save the given place from an explosion. Even the choice of places is very abstract. From the zoo, the jungle and the deck of an airplane, you can get to the digestive tract of a bear, the back of a flying space man butterfly or the guts of a printed circuit board. Any place you can think of, you can probably find it at McPixel.
Likewise, in these places you will meet completely abstract characters - an alien smoking marijuana, Batman on a train or a cow with dynamite stuck in its ass. Each situation will offer several interactive elements on the screen. It's either an item you pick up and use for something, or something happens when you tap a specific spot. However, there is no point behind individual solutions that ultimately prevent a bomb, dynamite, volcano, or gasoline from exploding. You practically go round and round trying every possible combination that goes, and something always comes out of it.
And that's what McPixel is all about. About the absurd jokes that occur when interacting with objects and characters. How to prevent dynamite sitting on the head of a giant Buddha statue from exploding? Well, you take a burning scented candle on the ground, put it under the statue's nose, and sneeze it and dynamite jumps out of the window. And what happens when you use a fire extinguisher on a fire on the roof of a train? No, it doesn't start putting it out, you put it in the flames and then the foam explodes in your face. And there are a lot of similar even more absurd solutions and gags in the game.
Once you manage to avoid the explosion three times, you will be rewarded with a bonus round. You then unlock additional bonus levels by revealing all the gags. There are around a hundred of them in the game, in addition, you can also play DLC, where situations are created by different players and will extend the gameplay by two to three times. The game is full of references to games, movies and cartoons. Eight-bit graphics, eight-bit soundtrack and absurd situations with even more absurd solutions, that's McPixel. And if you want to have even more fun, watch him play this game PewDiePie, one of YouTube's most famous personalities:
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